Kyle Nash - VANILLA Blog

Net Flieks

*Netflix, Netflix, Netflix. Netflix-Original, "Let's check Netflix!", "Netflix and chill?", "Do you have Netflix?"* Short of living on the moon for the last decade, it is almost impossible to not have heard of movie and TV series streaming giant Netflix

Security

The scariest email you've ever received?

The internet has seen its fair share of scams and tricks to squeeze money out of users all over the world, but a new kind of a scam is doing the rounds, and I personally, have never seen *anything* like this before...

Internet

An interesting month for the internet

From rising water levels worldwide, to new laws and regulations as well as nation wide internet shut downs, the ever-shifting internet has been busy over the last 30 days, so let's get stuck in!

Internet

"Look Ma, I got 1 million views!"

Technology is pushing society onwards and upwards as we create, develop and upgrade the world around us and, as expected, this push has opened up a whole new field of careers which never existed several decades ago.

China

回中国! (Back to China)

On the 16th of June, around midday, I left home to travel to China on a university studying programme for the second time in a year. Besides the basics of worrying about whether I had enough clothes, or my toothbrush, I had to consider my social media and messaging applications

Security

Let's go phishing!

Everyone has at some point either got an email from someone from an obscure African country or a phone call from an Asian call centre asking for your personal details and banking information. Now while we may laugh at these very transparent attempts at identity fraud or theft but...

Internet

Privacy Policies?

If you've opened your email recently, there's a very high chance that you have been flooded by tons of "Update our private policy" emails. Well, as much as these emails might look like spam... they're not...

Vanilla

How much freedom do you really have on the internet?

Many internet service providers around the world believe that a unrestricted access to the internet is pivotal to modern internet users' lives. This concept was coined as Net Neutrality by a media law professor from Columbia University in 2003.

Cape Town

Can you handle the heat?

On Friday the 11th of May, I arrived at the Vanilla offices for a very different reason. It wasn't for a meeting, or to work, but rather to taste test chilli sauces. And so, just before 1pm, the rest of the staff at Vanilla and I piled into the Play Room where our trial by fire had been set up

Languages

Calling all polyglots!

Many of us have decided at some point, "Right. This is it. I'm learning 'X'." And off you went down to the bookstore, asked the hopefully helpful bookseller there to direct you to the language learning section, and then picked out your, "Learn French 101: Complete guide with CD."

China

An internet without Google?

Many other different types of social media such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube along with 6 000 other websites cannot scale the Great Firewall and land themselves in mainland China.