Wow, It’s hard to believe that 2008 is coming to a close. What a year can change!? Obama won the U.S. Presidency; Zimbabwe, Somalia and Congo tragically spiraled deeper into lawlessness and a number of companies began to pay attention to Africa again. Not for it’s troubles, but for it’s market potential. Here’s a look [...]

The South African social media aggregator Afrigator is taking on Google’s Adsense by offering a platform for Advertisers and bloggers interesting serving their local audience. Afrigator has a reach of 1.7 million African bloggers. Platforms like Adsense often fail in foreign markets because of their size; a significant portion of the ads they [...]

Justin Hartman surveys the landscape of blogs in Africa…
State of the African Blogosphere
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The most interesting revelations for me:
- Afrigator receives over 100k unique visitors daily
- There was nearly a 100% jump in the number of new blogs between Sept and October when the site (Afrigator) was [...]

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Dreaming of an Internet Co-Op
One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In [...]

Big news in the African development space this week. Following the news that Ushahidi scored new funding, the African blogosphere aggregator tool Afrigator has announced that they’ve been acquired by MIH Print Africa!
The leak:
Moments ago Bandwidth Blog got the scoop in the latest South African internet acquisition. MIH Print Africa have acquired a majority [...]

When Armageddon came out in theatres, Asteroid wasn’t too far behind. Likewise, Earthquake was succeeded by Volcano, another natural disaster movie. When the Bentley went luxury, Hyundai prepped their knock off. Recently this trend of ‘copying’ (a.k.a. stealing ideas) moved to the web when Yahoo was accused of copying Digg.com’s interface. [...]