There are tons of these examples of social media gone bad floating around on the internet, but not many research surveys done to support any side of the matter. Do we take the Lightspeed survey as proof and go find a job selling insurance?

Mayotte, Equitorial Guinea and Rwanda ranks as the countries with the slowest internet connection speeds with 98%, 96% and 96% of them accessing the internet at speeds less than 256Kbsp.

There's a smarter saying for that: "Monkey see, monkey do." Unfortunately, as always, word of mouth carries exceptional credibility. Only these days, one idiot's opinion has the ability to reach so many more idiots on such a frequent basis that it has become critical to keep an eye on them.

Although South Africa is counted amongst the New World’s wine producers, the first grapes were pressed for wine at the Cape, nearly 350 years ago, in 1659 under Jan van Riebeeck. He had come to the Cape in 1652 to establish a settlement on behalf of the Dutch East India Company.

So now that the dust has settled, let's go and have a look at some of the predictions that were made for the year of 2009.