Category Archives: Web

Coming Soon, Twitter in Your Language!

October 12, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. ...
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Quick Hits for Tech and Africa

October 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Wayan Vota reports that broadband boosts GDP more than mobiles. WorldChanging has a series of posts listing their favorite blogs, divided by subject. The NYT features ...
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Amazing Visualization of “Good Morning” Tweets from Around the World

September 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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World’s Biggest Classifieds Come to Kenya

September 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Craigslist has been available for Egypt (Cairo) and South Africa (Johannesburg) for quite some time, so it’s a great pleasure to see it arrive ...
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Google News Senegal has Arrived!

August 31, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Google continues to expand into Africa with Google News Senegal, or rather, Google Actualités pour le Sénégal. The service pulls news from major Senegalese newspapers, ...
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SXSW 2010 Voting Opens

August 17, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
It’s that time of year again! South by Southwest is the premier event for companies on the cutting edge of Web, Film and Music. Each ...
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Great Companies Targeting African Innovators

August 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Our mission at Appfrica is to explore the latest news and technology trends in the African context. We’re excited to have such a great group ...
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MCC Launches Monitoring and Evaluation Portal

July 20, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) just launched a new part of their website that allows readers to browse their performance by country and sector. While ...
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Ethics of Online Journalism

July 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A hacker bypasses company security, steals confidential company information, and emails information obtained to it’s competitors and the press. Is it ethical to then post ...
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Designing Websites for Low-Bandwidth Users

July 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
As more and Africans are able to connect to the Internet, the disparity in bandwidth between African users and broadband users elsewhere is becoming quite ...
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