{"id":4555,"date":"2012-08-30T18:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4555"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T08:50:23","slug":"eric-clements","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/eric-clements\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ancr\" name=\"eric\">&nbsp;<\/a>Eric is the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kazazoom.com\/\">Kazazoom<\/a> a niche development company, specializing in Mxit Apps &amp; Games. Eric supports the sharing of ideas and innovation in the South African, as well as African Mobile Industry. Eric has made open source tools available for the creation of services on Mxit, recently launching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mxpress.co.za\/\">mxPress Plugin<\/a>, which instantly integrates a WordPress site with Mxit.<\/p>\n<p>Kazazoom&#8217;s apps rate in the top 10 of Mxit 3rd Party Apps, with a registered user base of over 600,000 South Africans. Eric holds a honours degrees in computer science from the University of Pretoria, and has focussed on the Mobile Industry the last 10 years. For his sins, Eric spent the majority of that time at a Management Consulting firm working with Mobile Operators. Also an ultimate frisbee player, Eric is based in Joburg, working in the fun Greenside area. Follow him on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/eric_clements\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/eric-clements\/13\/916\/155\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session:<\/strong> &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/session\/open-source-mxpress-plugin\/\">Open Source mxPress Plugin<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 09:00 \u2013 09:25<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/eric-clements\/\">Speaker Spotlight<\/a><a class=\"twitter-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eric_clements\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"linkedin-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/eric-clements\/13\/916\/155\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Eric is the founder of Kazazoom a niche development company, specializing in Mxit Apps &amp; Games. Eric supports the sharing of ideas and innovation in the South African, as well as African Mobile Industry. Eric has made open source tools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/eric-clements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eric Clements<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"clemeric","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-4555","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheWZl-1bt","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9966c008cb4e008d7525c664f1a6941bbbffa77f3cec23ee87c08302184d0f8e?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4555\/revisions\/6072"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5017?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}