This Week In Appfrica [Dec 7 - 14, 2008]

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A big thanks to Charlie Cheever from Facebook who chose to come to Kampala to run the first ever Facebook Developer’s Garage. Charlie has been a senior engineer at the company for several years,s meaning he’s pretty much been with the company since it began to grow from Mark Zuckerberg’s college idea into what it is today. The event saw over 100 enthusiastic software developers attend: computer science students from Makerere University, small business owners and the school’s Faculty. For Slides, Photos, Videos and personal accounts of what took place, visit the Facebook Group. That thanks is definitely extended to Samasource who played the biggest role in pulling it all off by advocating for East African developers in Silicon Valley.

Editorials

African Tech 2008: Year in Review

What an incredible year. As broadband fibre inches it’s way ever closer to be coming a reality on the continent, we look back at the 10 events and companies that helped define the year.

The Ten Strangest Things Tweeting

What are the geekiest uses of Twitter? Appfrica’s compiled a round up of ’strange things tweeting that includes a House, a Space Shuttle, a plant and even an unborn child…

News

DotDUB: Any Video, Any Language

DotSUB crowdsources video translation and subtitling.

Times Online Adopts AdGator

AdGator secured their first long-term contract with an advertiser, the Times Online.

Vodafone Launches App Distribution Platform

Following the example of Apple and Google Android, Vodafone launched WidgetZone.

2008 Google Zeitgeist Report for South Africa

Google analyzed the top search results of the year by region and included South Africa in that report.

From Appfricasts African Tech Podcast

This week I began broadcasting my enthusiasm for East African tech to the world. So far I’m loving it and I look forward to including many interviews and participation from local techies in the future.

Appfricast 1

Barcamp Congo? Africa and the Digital Divide. Twitter and Ghana. We Blog the World. Year in Review.

Appfricast 1.2

HIV Drugs to Get High? Nigerian Social Network of the Year Award? Gmail’s New To Do.

Appfricast 2

Facebook/Samasource Interview!

From FricaFact

This weeks most popular/re-tweeted FricaFact was: ‘At 131 million, Nigeria’s population is nearly half as populous as the United States of America.’