A Tiger in Africa is an autonomous collective.

Our principal area of interest is in opportunities presented by technology and the Internet, and we aim to act as a springboard for a stream of cutting-edge projects, by committing and leveraging a range of resources including time, analysis, know-how and capital.

We wrote the statement on our homepage more than 10 years ago. With a long-term horizon, we believe, in essence, that it still holds true today.

We are deadly serious (well, extremely serious, anyway) about our work and objectives. But we think that enjoying the ride is as important as reaching the goal, and there is humour and fun at the heart of everything we do...

Project Dennis: TheTop100.net

Our first undertaking, Project Dennis, is a social reviews site based on Top 100 lists, that combines collaborative content generation with the power of collective opinion.

Dennis is driven by an innovative online voting system that aims to aggregate global opinion on any topic of interest, and present the results in a familiar and intuitive format.

Below a straightforward and readily accessible interface lies a highly customisable, feature-rich web application, which, when completed, is intended to appeal to the widest possible audience, from the casual surfer to the tech-enthusiast.

The Project Dennis concept has been in theoretical development since we first registered TheTop100.net domain in 1999. After extensive planning, actual development commenced at the beginning of 2009. We ran a closed Alpha site for around a year, and the Beta site was launched in May 2010. Numerous refinements and enhancements are currently in the pipeline...

The main features of TheTop100.net are:

• Browse and filter established Top 100 lists and ‘new ideas’, arranged in numerous subject zones
• Give your opinions and see items animate up and down the lists!
• Build your own Top 100 lists with customisable facts sections and ratings criteria
• Share your Top 100 lists with friends, groups or publish to the world
• Add photos, youtube clips and audio files
• Get your friends to give opinions, add items, vote for your ideas…and even for you!
• Unique, multi-alias social-networking system, including Facebook connectivity
• Use the Top 100 list widget to easily display your lists on your own site
• Build up your voter rank, and your weight of opinion, across the site and in zones
• Track your activity, progress and win prizes!

We've been asked frequently what the working project title "DENNIS" stands for. We're keeping that secret for now, but it could be on this list: The Top 100 D.E.N.N.I.S. Acronyms. If you've got a better idea, add it to the list :-)

Other Work

While we are not a traditional web agency, we do occasionally undertake development projects on behalf of others - we believe this helps and encourages us to maintain a wide perspective and keep abreast of technological developments.

An example of such work can be viewed at Engage Search

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