New Media Labs has commenced development of an Online Auction system for an existing client. Originally an eBay mashup was considered but the business case to build an in house auction system was stronger than the case for a mashup. The notification systems, rules engine and content management system to load the auction items is going to make this a fun development exercise. Repeat orders from existing clients, proving once again that NML...

The Tourism Information Portal, that New Media Labs is building in partnership with Smartguide, is entering the final sprint (SCRUM and 3 week sprints being our chosen methodology).  The Tourism Information Portal is a Google Earth-based mashup content management system. The Tourism Information Portal  exposes not only Youtube videos and Flickr photos of the major tourist attractions in South Africa, but also audio and video content that...

New Media Labs has received signoff of development and testing of custom Niche Social Network for a leading international private bank. The development was completed in four, three week SCRUM sprints with a development team of four. Given the scale of this project, and the technical complexity of tieing into the banking backend this was an amazing achievement. Microsoft is now working in collaboration with New Media Labs to generate a case...

New Media Labs in collaboration with Global Vision and Stonewall+ won the bid to redevelop the Nedgroup Investments Content Management System. The creative pitch from Stonewall+ was excellent, this coupled with our technology pitch made the decision to go Stonewall+/NML/GV a no brainer. NML will be doing the dev, GV will be providing Business Analysis, Project Management and Testing services. Our base layer CMS was used for the development....

Yesterday (14 October 2008) we proudly welcomed Ernst Kuschke the Microsoft C# MVP to the NML team.  Ernst will be working on the GTM (Adora) project. Ernst is a highly experienced and very up to date developer.  Ernst adds to the NML MENSA members list. His MVP profile reads as follows: Speaking Engagements: • SCRUM as a development methodology • Beyond Continuous Integration • Facebook on the .NET Framework • Continuous...

Rogan Flitton is a young, energetic and passionate software developer that joins the team with 6 years experience and a B.Com Informatics degree for R.A.U.  Deputy Head Boy at both primary school and high school, a keen cricketer, traveller, avid snowboarder, beginner surfer and part-time guitarist, it is Rogan’s all-round ability in life and his passion for technology and web2.0 that makes him a perfect fit into the NML puzzle....