Kaboom went our data
A sad incidence occurred yesterday with the TechMasai blog. What happened is that the software, Wordpress crashed on us and we could not change or affect anything.
When we did re-install the software and added a backup, the backup would not work due to some unforeseen problems. We then had to add an old backup, which is present on the platform at this moment.
The effect has been severe. Out of about 340 posts, we lost about 280 posts. The comments are still visible, but they are no longer of use substantially, since the original blog posts have been lost. Read more »
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Kenyan companies are still working to understand the nature of social media and the changes it brings to how they market themselves.
This is mainly due to the fact that the infrastructure in Kenya is shaky, but major investment from like Seacom are bringing fast paradigm changes.
Below is a clip from KTN; a Kenyan television network where two bloggers discuss the topic. Read more »
Subsaharska a blogger partaking on discussed about African wrote a post titled: Why Francophone Africa is less dynamic than Anglophone Africa.
The discussion was started by a blogger named Neo, but I found Subsaharska’s theory quite intriguing. Quoting his post
For some time, I have indeed wondered why it is that the English speaking countries seem to be doing better overall than the French speaking countries. Obviously, this hasn’t always been the case, but currently countries like Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and yes, Nigeria are either up and coming or in general, doing quite well. Read more »
Prs Paul Kagame, and Ex-Prs. W Bush
Paul Kagame is the president of Rwanda. He is my new found hero on how to run a country ravaged by civil war in recent history.
The Rwandan president recently wrote an article in the Guardian about the nature of aid and investment in Africa.
In an effort to share his success with the world, President Paul Kagame listed a few points on development in his article.
It was titled: Why Africa Welcomes The Chinese. Below is an excerpt Read more »
We haven’t confirmed this, but respected SEO blog and social media blog Social Media Today has written a post stating that Google Adsense is now available in Kenyan shillings. I quote
Kenyan bloggers and website owners are now pleased to note that they can receive their Google Adsense earnings in Kenyan Shillings.
This was not the case previously and many website owners had difficulty banking the foreign currency(Dollar or Euros) cheques with their local banks, Further ,payment would be delayed for up to 21 working days from the date of receipt with Banks charging commissions on the cheques. Read more »
Map kibera
Map Kibera is probably one of the best grassroots technology initiatives to happen in Kenya this year. The idea is to map Kibera slum, one of the biggest slums in Kenya.
If you do not know what a slum is, a slum is like a ghetto but probably worse.
Slums suck worst of all not really due to the crime and poverty prevalent in them, but the unregulated, and unstructured nature of the environment. The lack of information about Kibera slums has very serious repercussions to anyone who wants to foster any change within the community.
The way Map Kibera works is that Read more »
The Grid
The Grid, the mobile social network from South Africa I personally know of to attempt to enter the Nigerian web market.
The Grid in Nigeria has a few features missing from it, like the location based information. However The Grid made up for this lapse by rolling out a few more features for fans of the service. The changes include stuff like twitter integration, change to their mibli interface. Read more »
I was am a big fan of Twyka; the Kenyan microblogging platform until I could not take it any longer. I am done with Twyka until they fix the severe problems they have with their community, and interface.
The relationship started of wonderful enough, we were one of the first people who profiled Twyka just a few hours after their launch. We felt that Twyka was the one we were waiting for; the Kenyan microblogging platform which will allow us to forge a new connection with microbloggers in the region. Read more »
I recently started wondering about all the fuss with social networks. They are the number one type of Internet service most African entrepreneurs start of with, think about it.
In Nigeria they are so many we actually only reviewed the biggest and most fun, which are Onlinenigeria, Naijapals and Naijaborn. In South Africa you get Zoopedup, Blueword, and Vialynx.
Also worthy of note is the large number of open source or Ning powered social networks which actually have vibrant communities. I had one, before we shut it down, Africanpath has one, and now the guy from Project Diaspora has one.
I think at this point in time, social networks are great to start because Read more »
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We wrote a list of African technology startups which have amassed a following or at the very least raised awareness about themselves in the Africa cyberspace in 2009. The list is below
