Feedalizer is an Adobe Air desktop lifestreaming application built by MIH Swat in South Africa. It’s interesting because of the way it currently integrates with Twitter but it also features support for Facebook, Jaiku and Flickr. However, Feedalizr has found most if it’s popularity because of it’s integration with Friendfeed.

Friendfeed is a lifestreaming [...]

The staff of Google South Africa recently posted some photos of their new offices, nicknamed the Rubik’s Cube. Check out the photos below…
The South African team is still relatively small, but our London office has provided us with many of the standard ‘Google’ paraphernalia seen in offices around the globe. The office started off as [...]

When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry about, although it could be argued that if people paid for the software they use the market could grow. Despite this, Microsoft recently went after a major reseller of pirated [...]

In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into the local Ugandan language of Luganda. At Campala2008 I had the pleasure of meeting Olweny San James, one of the student developers who participated in the Luganda-Firefox translation. [...]

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 [...]

Will Larson put together this study at Irrational Exuberance that explores the global popularity of programming languages. The languages he chose to look at were: Common Lisp, Erlang, Groovy, Haskell, Java, Objective C, OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, and Scheme. He performed the search using Google Insights, then restricted them using the programming filter. [...]

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded on February 4, 2008. They had nearly 400 students worldwide produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for ten participating organizations.
The contest brought [...]

A few weeks ago Erik Hersman posted some interesting details about Google’s decision to use African Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) to supplement their Global Cache project. The Global Cache basically speeds up the internet by cacheing web pages. It’s a unique way to approach the problem of slow bandwidth in Africa but it [...]

South African Tourism is using Google Earth to hopefully boost travel to the country…

Shine2010 is being marketed as an online social networking platform which offers a place for South Africans to congregate, learn and communicate in the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World CupTM. The project was sponsored by the First National Bank of South Africa.
Here, soccer fans and concerned citizens of South Africa can find news, [...]