Appfrica

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African Tech News and Culture

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Appfrica ranks 47 in Africa and 1 in Uganda. According to site visitors it ranks 150, and 165 according to page views:

According to blogroll links it ranks 123 and 150 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts

Google Stealthily Building a Social Network?

Google Friend Connect is the latest in a trend of big media companies who are ‘opening up their users data’ to help make the web more social. Facebook recently scored big by securing a deal that would allow Digg, Hulu and Discovery users to sign up and authenticate using

Published on Dec 4, 2008, 6:16 am

Appfrica RSS in French and Chinese

So Appfrica’s been translated into German, Italian, Chinese, French and Spanish for some time now using some automated translation services. A while back I added RSS feeds with header and descriptions in French and Chinese. You can now automatically subscribe to the alternate language feeds of this blog. Partly

Published on Dec 3, 2008, 10:30 am

Kenya’s Draconian Proposal to Regulate the Media

A new law that, if passed, would allow the Kenyan government to determine the content, style, manner and schedule of broadcasting, has drawn fierce resistance from the local media. The Kenya Communications Amendment Bill 2008, which is now in its final stages of the legislative process in Kenya’s Parliament,

Published on Dec 3, 2008, 6:22 am

The South Korea/Madagascar Connection

Beppe Grillo’s thoughts on South Korean company Daewoo and the ‘neocolonial’ invasion of Madagascar… What have Madagascar and South Korea got in common? On the face of it, nothing. The former is a country in development, the second is an economic power. One is in Africa, the other

Published on Dec 3, 2008, 5:29 am

Amput8ion by SMS?

A British surgeon performed an amputation procedure he’d never attempted before with instructions he received via SMS A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Africa with help from instructions sent to him by text message. Faced with carrying out

Published on Dec 3, 2008, 5:04 am

“Trade Carbon for Food”

Could the key to Africa’s future have been there from day one? In sustainable agriculture, Busani Bufana thinks so… Forget the view of climate change as impending catastrophe for a moment: if negotiators can recognise sustainable agriculture by African smallholders and forests as mitigating factors in climate change,

Published on Dec 1, 2008, 11:39 pm

Who Killed the Electric Car? Not Africa.

South Africa’s Optimal Energy wants to bring electric cars into mass production in Africa. It’s starting with the innovative and stylish Joule… The entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception.

Published on Dec 1, 2008, 11:25 pm

Why Blog About Africa?

There’s a meme spreading through the African blogosphere asking the bloggers of the continent to explain why they do what they do. Personally I blog about African tech because I’ve been on the other side. Growing up in the U.S. there’s a lot of cynicism, distrust and fear when

Published on Dec 1, 2008, 11:01 pm

Uganda’s Virtual Stock Exchange

Two Ugandan programmers, Harry Barry (22) and Seruyinda Simon (24), have built an Internet platform to enable investors to trade virtual stocks online. The platform, called Libre Exchange is set to be operational in 2009. It will allow users to start trading virtual shares from seven mock companies

Published on Dec 1, 2008, 9:50 pm

A Safari Through China’s Social Web

So this weekend I’ve been exploring the Chinese social web from here in Uganda. With the aid of translate.google.com, a few Firefox translation extensions and my knowledge of PHP and HTML, I’ve managed to do pretty good. How does knowing a little code help? Well often at the bottom

Published on Nov 30, 2008, 10:51 pm

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