This Week in Appfrica [Sept 28 - Oct 4 2008]

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News

Appfrica at SXSWi and Barcamp Africa

Appfrica heads back to the U.S. for two of the most buzzworthy technology events of the year! For me, participation in these conferences represent a real shift in thinking about Africa.

A Look at Ugandan Web Startup NodeSix

NodeSix was started two years ago by Benge Solomon King of Uganda. It’s now a thriving web hosting business and one of the biggest success stories of the industry in the region.

Interview With Citizen Journalism Startup Demotix

Turi Munthe is the founder of Demotix, a group that crowdsources reporting to resell that content to big media groups.

Fight the Future With Superstruct

Superstruct is an ARG (alternate reality game) that asks you to help combat growing socio-eco crises in the world.

Quicknews

Mark Shuttleworth: IT Community Hero of the Year

Chromium: Chrome for OSX and Linux

Google’s 2001 Search Odyssey: The Web As It Was

Visa Develops for Google Android

Editorials

‘Global’ Web Services Failing the World Market

This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. and Europe, in most cases not for the lack of trying.

From the Archives

The Next 2 Billion: SinoAfrica Rising

A few months ago I wrote this extensive overview of China’s growing involvement on the continent.

Links to Appfrica

ReadWriteWeb’s “Social Media in Africa” Part 1 looks at the growing African influence on the web and the innovations moving the continent forward.

WhiteAfrican goes in depth covering my new web app Afridex.

StartupAfrica and TimbuktuChronicles both mention Afridex.