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    Appfrica Showcased on Wordpress.com

    {Monday, November 3rd, 2008}

    Permalink: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/954

    Head on over to our showcase on Wordpress.com’s site to vote for this site. Voting doesn’t get us anything but it would be nice to have an African blog at the top of their designer’s showcase for a change!


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    Introducing Afridex: Crunchbase for Africa

    {Friday, September 26th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/536

    I write a lot about tech companies in Africa and it began to seem like a real waste that I had to repeat a lot of information for the sake of new readers and people unfamiliar with certain organizations. For instance there’s at been at least five separate occasions where I’ve mentioned the Kenyan start-up [...]


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    Wordpress 2.6 Adds Support for Gears

    {Tuesday, July 15th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/132

    Those living in the developing countries of the world know all about two things…being off the grid and constant power-outages. This can be a potential nightmare for software developers, web developers and bloggers alike. The solution? Desktop software applications like Google Gears that allow for the use of web applications offline. [...]


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    Wordpress Goes Mobile with iPhone App

    {Sunday, July 13th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/115

    Image by Brendan Loy via Flickr
    Apple’s second generation iPhone, a more advanced 3G model went on sale yesterday and was met the same rancor and clamoring from the public that the first one did. What wasn’t expected, however, were all the problems both Apple and AT&T shared on release day. However, none of [...]


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    Permalink: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/61

    Wordpress was born in 2003 it became an instant success, changing the world of blogging as we know it and eventually giving it’s nearest competitor MovableType a run for it’s money. The fact that Wordpress is so versatile, extensible and free, made MovableType seem bloated, unfriendly and a gratuitous expense for many small publishers. [...]


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