Paul has had an interest in the internet since programming basic text based browsers at UCT. He made the career transition from his electro-mechanical engineering education to web programming while working in London in 1999. An exciting time, where he was fortunate enough to work for TransWorld International Interactive (TWIi) a division of IMG, that owned the official web publishing rights to Manchester United, Brazil Football, British Open Golf, Wimbledon to name but a few. For TWIi he also architected and developed the early interactive TV channel NOW.com that was possibly as many as 10 years ahead of its time.
On returning to Cape Town, Paul worked for SafariNow.com (one of South Africa’s most successful travel portals) as a software architect. In 2005 Paul helped found Silverminute where he played a role as Technical Director and Senior Architect. At Silverminute, Paul acted as Technical Architect for a five-hundred-million Australian dollar, smart card, ticketing and micro-payments system. Silverminute was sold to the Altron Group In 2007 and later that year with the capital from the Silverminute sale New Media Labs was founded solely by Paul. New Media Labs has a team of developers who keep the thriving services business busy. NML has recently had a successful exit from AfricanTourismPortal.com (now WeTu.com). New Media Labs’ research and development efforts are invested into a Social Media (SM) framework called The WeLove Framework, which has given rise to their Location Based Service (LBS) platform WeLove.Net. Not only is the WeLove community growing at a nice pace, but New Media Labs has been able to sell the LBS SM framework as a platform to their existing clients.
