AfriGadget is a blog dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity and spreading the word about just how much our continent can achieve with very little.

Run by a team of bloggers, the site was founded by Erik Hersman and makes a point of including visual contributions from readers. It’s a wonderful community of people filled with hope and inspiration.

We’re thrilled to be able to include some of their community in Zoopy, and some of Zoopy in theirs, via a customised page built especially for AfriGadget. This page highlights photos and videos uploaded by the AfriGadget team, as well as user comments and feedback.

Visit the page to view the marvellous achievements being made by amazing people around Africa: http://www.zoopy.com/afrigadget

In an effort to decrease the amount of time it takes to register on Zoopy.com, you will now be logged in immediately after registering and will have 7 days to activate your account.  After 7 days, if you have not activated your account, you will not be able to log in until you do.

This update is part of a continuous process to improve your experience on Zoopy.com.  Watch this space - there’s lots more coming!

Barry Christianson has joined the team as our Web Developer, working closely with our Lead Developer Neil to help us grow bigger, better and faster.

Barry has worked for Prezence, Generator Consulting and other web agencies and we’re excited to have him contributing to the future of Zoopy.

Welcome to Zoopy HQ Barry! Make yourself comfortable and strap yourself in. The road ahead is going to be one exciting ride.

As of last night, ‘views’ on Zoopy means the number of times the media item’s page has been viewed on Zoopy, plus the number of times the media item has been viewed when embedded on the home page or on other websites. We hope that the new figure will give Zoopy users a better idea of how many times a video has been watched, or how many times a photo has been viewed.

You can now share your birthday wishes for Madiba with the rest of South Africa and the world. Madiba will be celebrating his 90th birthday on July 18, and we’ve set up a special Zoopy page for you to upload your videos and photos, and to view other birthday submissions.

To upload your own birthday wishes for Madiba, simply upload to Zoopy as you normally would, but tag your upload with ‘madiba90‘ (without the quotes). For instance, ‘madiba90, mandela, president, 90th birthday’.

You can also leave a comment for Madiba, but make sure that you are logged in before you do. To leave a comment, click on ‘Comment’ in the ‘Leave a Comment for Madiba’ block.