Written by:MarginPressAdmin
9/8/2008 12:51 PM

My good mate from school (we were a bit like Beavis & Butthead – only thicker), David, is now in the web design business.

When he isn’t creating the modern equivalent of wallpaper, David is on the lam for a killer online business. It got me thinking… We have this thing in South Africa where a traditional African custom (as we’re whities, it didn’t apply to us) demands that the family of a bride be paid in cattle - the longstanding measure of wealth. I thought a really useful service would be if someone could log-on and see a selection of cows. He’d click on the ones he liked the look of and the selection would be delivered to the prospective father-in-law either in cash, physical cows or cows conveniently rearranged as steaks and chops. Links for the hire of tents, chairs, booze, etc, would make handy add-ons. The novelty value would get the creator into the papers at least, even if a single cow was never ordered.

I have no interest in developing websites and shared the idea with David. When online-lobola.com hits, remember that it was Frank’s idea first!

Here is a shameless plug for David’s site: http://www.thinkdave.com. Please leave lots of intelligent comments so that it at least appears that he has a large audience!

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