And I am sorry about not taking the content live. I have been in
strategy sessions for the last 2 days and neglected blogging duties.
Your opinion was not censored. All debates and opinions are welcome on
my blog : )

I see Charl has posted a response to this on Muti (link).
http://muti.co.za/comments?sbid=21630 - Thanks Charl.

In summary, as Charl indicates their funding ran out and photo
quantity dropped severely as a result of funding which explains the low
base when we made the acquisition at the beginning of the year.

This does not however
detract from the fact that organic growth is now happening that is not
dependant on photos in night clubs. There is definitely something
bigger and more exciting happening on Blueworld right now.

Apologies once again for the late approval. I have set my comments to
approve people automatically that have had an approved comment so this
should not be an issue anymore.

Cheers.

Elan.

Something struck a chord while reading this, as the numbers did not seem to add up from a previous article I had read elsewhere. In a MYADSL article, published on 3 October 2007, Blueworld’s ‘website administrators’ submitted the following statistics for August 2007:

Monthly Unique Visitors– 55 000
Monthly Page Views– 825 000

The MYADSL article from http://mybroadband.co.za/news/General/1515.html says that.. ‘Please note that these statistics are based on feedback from the website administrators’ Yet according to the statistics you provided in your graph above, Blueworld’s actual statistics were 5 000 Unique Visitors in January 2008. This is very strange - how would a site’s unique visitors go from 55 000 in October 2007, down to 5 000 in January 2008, 3 months later, and then stay below 55 000 to date for this whole year?

It is good to be open about your statistics but you need to get the numbers straight.