Telkom goes 2.0?

Is Telkom joing the 2.0 scene? At first I thought so… I think they might be trying, but is busy failing dismally… They should really stop and maybe talk to the Cerebra boys before they consider doing so. Anyway, I came across this new “portal” Telom launched. (Thank you Digital Pilgrim!) Its a nice looking huge bandwidth munching flash animation. It is Telkom telling us how lucky we are having broadband and being able to do all sorts of stuff to generate them more money. Lets face it, everytime you watch a Youtube video, Telkom makes money. Every song you download from iTunes or wherever, Telkom makes money. They now went as far as actually encouraging you to do so, so they can make more money…

As much as I hate giving them any sort of publicity, I hate it more to keep quiet! So here goes:

Telkom launched its “do” portal. Its a portal mainly promoting Telkom products and how good they are and what all you can do with them. It totally sucks! Apparently you can register and download music and movies and what-not. I’m not even going to bother registering…

I feel like a conspiracy theorist saying this, but it all seems like they are now promoting that you should “kill your cap” so they can benefit a bit more…

Then another thing that bothers the crap out of me is those ads down the right-hand side. Is it paid for ads? If so, then I would appeal that we boicot iTunes, Youtube, Computicket, EA Gaming, Aardvark (not that I think boicotting aardvark is worth abything since nobody prolly uses them!), and a few others. How the hell can these companies support this evil monopoly?! Dissappointed I am… If it is not paid for advertising, I would like to urge these companies to sue the crap out of Telkom for the bad association they have caused!

Max, my friend, I’m with you on whatever you want to do to Telkom.

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6 Comments to "Telkom goes 2.0?"

• Tyler said: On 04/24/2007 at 8:15 am

  its just fancy flash! :/

  Yes, talk to Cerebra Telkom

• Dave Duarte said: On 04/24/2007 at 8:24 am

  Stii…. Let it be said that you’re a sharp oke, and you deserve your “Legend” tag through and through.

• Maximillian Kaizen said: On 04/24/2007 at 8:45 am

  Stii it is almost surreal in its absurdity - the parasitic parastal needs a flame under its bloated bum. Don’t know how many will flock to Neotel but we need a clear constructive and comprehensive strategy to help them with their action steps I think. Getting in on the policy groups is a good start.
  Geeks are anarchists by nature and not generally happy to play in the mucky pool of politics. But as I mentioned when I went to the ISOC talk - Doc Searls has been pushing for coders and technologists to pay attention or lose their rights due to passive indolence. We’ve had quite enough oppression here thank you.

  LOL Tyler: as says the new Cerebright ..congrats

• RafiQ said: On 04/24/2007 at 11:50 am

  Looks like they advertising everything possibel to eat your bandwidth & throwing in long lost aardvark to make it less obvious *sigh*

• RafiQ said: On 04/24/2007 at 11:50 am

  Looks like they are advertising everything possible to eat your bandwidth & throwing in long lost aardvark to make it less obvious *sigh*

• charl said: On 04/25/2007 at 8:10 am

  Aardvark! LOL! I havent heard that name in ages.. its a good PR6 backlink!

  On topic - Ordered dsl yesterday for my new office… Im on 2 month waiting list. I see nothing has changed..

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