Andy Hadfield

Phew. I'm exhausted writing this. Which means my teams at Prezence and Quirk must be equally exhausted. And it's only Thursday. Had to schedule this post because tomorrow, I drive up to the Clarens Beer Fest to launch MyBEER with our brave and pioneering sponsors, SAB.
I wanted to give you some behind-the-scenes context on this blog. So, no official schwarmy press releases, just some cool insight about a product that we're all really proud of.

By now, you're wondering if me and my team are starting to become booze hounds. Perhaps. But alcohol is an amazing product category, one where we need to be responsible - but also one where we see more product loyalty and engagement than most. As with any social product, you need to have a topic that people want to talk about, a vertical that people want to engage with. Engage with more than once. I love toasters. But I'm not sure I'd check into one :)

The other thing you will have noticed is that Real Time Wine was neve…

In a bumper episode of the ZA Tech Show (1 hour and 24 minutes to be exact), Brett Haggard gets together with Real Time Wine’s Andy Hadfield and Connect Magazine’s Adam Oxford to discuss the past week’s tech news. Topics on the agenda include:
E-commerce heading on over to Twitter;What would make for an awesome next-generation gaming console;Where Valve thinks gaming market is headed over the next few years;The ‘BMW Genius’ initiative;Mailbox.app for iOS (we’re still waiting for our invite #justsaying);The sellout of the MS Surface Pro and Blackberry Z10; and the fact thatUbuntu Phone Edition is coming soon.
Our technology picks of the week are:
Andy Hadfield picks Google Groups and picks-on Rwanda (or more specifically, the Rwandan domain registrar);Adam Oxford picks MOOCS (Massively Open Online Courses) and www.coursera.org; andBrett Haggard picks Adobe Creative Cloud.
Our listeners pick:
Alicia Keys’ tweet from her iPhone (she’s Blackberry’s worldwide creative director remember);The …