There’s a full page ad in this month’s WIRED Magazine for a media group in North Africa called TwoFour54.com an integrated, state-of-the-art environment that supports and inspires content creators to flourish in the Middle East and North Africa. Intrigued, I did some research to find out more about the company. I didn’t find [...]

Africa and music go back like…well….as far back as Africa and Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). If you’re still shopping for christmas gifts there’s some real gems waiting to be served this year. In fact, if you’re looking for some new music, just forward this post to your friends with the subject “hint, hint”. Here’s a list [...]

Zoopy, the South African social media website has undergone a massive make-over. According to the companies blog:

Almost a year ago to the day, we launched the second version of Zoopy; the Zoopy that many of you have come to know and use over the last 12 busy months. The site was a massive overhaul of [...]

So this week Appfrica is rolling out a new mash-up project called FricaFact. This one is all about educating the masses about Africa using social media tools…specifically Twitter. The app is pretty simple. Right now it displays a different fact each day about the continent, it’s countries, it’s people, it’s culture. Want to [...]

South Africa’s De Beers is in the middle of a heated dispute with the U.S. based domain registrar Joker.com who’s users deployed spoof ads mocking De Beers on the New York Time’s website. The ad in question announced that diamond purchases “will enable us to donate a prosthetic for an African whose hand was lost [...]

Multi-media firms are angling to reap from a projected rise in online advertising revenue as more clients reach out for their services. A forecast by the international data centre (IDC) showed that spending on Internet advertising would grow to about $65.2 billion this year, representing nearly 10 per cent of all advertising expenditure across [...]

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Turi Munthe, CEO of the ‘citizen wire’ start-up Demotix about the future of reporting and social media’s place in journalism. You can read Part 1 of this interview here.
Appfrica: You’ve got a few competitors in this space.  What sets Demotix apart from them?
 
Turi Munthe: [...]

Today the NewYorkTimes announced that it would begin aggregating and re-syndicating some very popular American tech blogs including ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, and GigaOm as part of a redesign of it’s website. This announcement is huge for many reasons. All three blogs were started by individuals who had a passion for their respective interests in [...]

Earlier this month I started hearing about a new social media site that would aim to crowd-source the opinions and views of the Ugandan public. ThisIsUganda.org (as of yet not up), aims to be the hub of citizen journalism in the country. I had the pleasure of talking to founders/editors Siena Sofia Magdalena Anstis, [...]

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Auditioning of participants for the Entrepreneur TV Series sponsored by ECOBANK and Vitamalt has moved to Aba, Abia State. The Aba auditioning is coming barely two days after the Kano show, which had participants from most of the northern states scuttling for place in the TV reality series.