Hi all,

Silicon Cape seems to be packed to the brim with many interesting people from Johannesburg and Cape Town but there are people from Durban here as well.I'd like to take this oppurtunity to call on all the Durban members.Lets get to know each other,maybe we can have 'meet ups' or network.We all share the same passion-tech,so lets what we can do.'SILICON EAST COAST '...just joking.

I am working with a group of people to launch a new service called Lessfuss. Lessfuss is a personal assistant service which is aimed at helping people save time, while getting the best possible advice doing so. There is a lot more info on our How it works page, including what the service aims to help people with, and how it will all work.

We have been working…

So I wanted to put this idea out there and see what sort of response there is to it.

I know there is obviously ways to synchronize your calendar with yourself between your outlook,webmail,blackberry,iphone etc etc. There is also functionality for you to share specific calendar events with other people which comes through as an email and you can add it to your calendar.

But what about sharing your actual calendar, or maybe even a portion of it with other people…

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The site is meant to be a place where employers and employees can connect directly. 

I plan on only allowing high quality job ad and no ads from recruiters. 

I developed the site using Ruby on Rails 3 and it's currently hosted on Heroku. I have worked on it on and off for about 4 months, and I did all the design and development myself.

Please have a look at:

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When entering the virtual hiring of specialised staff , I never foreseen it to took off the way it did. We are  therefore also including Project Managers, Brand Strategists, Paralegals, Trainers , GIS Specialist  and Mobile Application Developers to our team. They are available on request and at affordable rates.

Our most popular virtual staff are travelbookers, personal assistants as well as research assistants.

Interesting ...

M

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