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A Vision of the Present
By Jon on July 30, 2010
Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a …Category: Industry News
What is Hive Colab?
By Jon on July 30, 2010
Hive Colab is the newest co-working space on the East Africa scene. But what is it and where did it come from? To …Category: Industry News
U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
By Jon on July 26, 2010
Last week representatives from the U.S. State Department Elana Berkowitz and Bruce Wharton reached out directly to innovators in East Africa to discuss the Apps …Category: Industry News
Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda
By Jon on July 26, 2010
Google is hosting two events in September to teach the use of Google technologies and products in Africa… Google is dedicated to making the Internet relevant …Category: Industry News
Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
By Jon on July 22, 2010
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot …Category: Industry News
TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
By Jon on July 22, 2010
TED Global 2010 wrapped up last week in Oxford, UK. As a TED Senior Fellow, I’m lucky in that I’ve now attended three TED events …Category: Industry News

The TED Phone
By Jon on July 14, 2010
At TED Global in Oxford, UK this week TED and Nokia announced a partnership to bring TED talks to Africa and other developing parts of …Category: Industry News
Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
By Jon on July 1, 2010
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Category: Industry News
Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
By Jon on July 1, 2010
Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and …Category: Industry News
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Nicco Mele Launches NewsJunk.com
West African born Nicco Mele is a bit of a technology wunderkind. He was featured in this months Linux Journal for his ‘Man Cave’, the basement of his new house where all his technological toys live. I use the term ‘toys’ lightly, the room features 5.1 surround sound, a 110″ television screen, and his Core 2 Quad Processor MythTV box! But where Nicco is really making a name for himself is with the new political news aggregator NewsJunk.com.
Nicco’s career began as a member of the technical staff for various political campaigns, in particular the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama AND John McCain! It’s an impressive resume, for his skills but also for the bipartisan nature. It’s no surprise then, that his latest project would be a website that pulls in information about politics from all across the web and centralizes it in one place. Here’s a quote from Nicco himself on the project…
Right now NewsJunk only aggregates political news but Nicco’s partner Dave Winer hints at some big plans for the future here.