Tag Archives: countries

The Bottom 5%

July 27, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The above map illustrates that by deleting all the countries that make up the bottom 5% of global GDP contributors we eliminate nearly 2.9 billion ...
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Web 2.0 Services Shutting Out Developing Countries

April 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In a particularly infuriating Article, the NewYorkTimes sites developing countries as the toughest places to monetize web traffic for web services like YouTube, Facebook and ...
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Couchsurfing.com: Crowdsourcing Hospitality

April 5, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The first rule of Couchsurfing is to talk about Couchsurfing! Couchsurfing.com, or ‘CS’ as you’ll hear members referring to it, is an online social network ...
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Om Malik Misses the Point on OLPC

March 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
OLPC may have it’s problems, but in my opinion, it’s not the ones described by GigaOm’s Om Malik in this blog post. In the post ...
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Keep Some Coins for the Rainy Day

February 20, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
After a period of pretending that things will stay normal in East Africa amidst the economic crisis, cracks have started showing with various business strongholds ...
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Top Social Networks as Countries

February 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
MySpace has the most registered users, reporting to have just 50 million less registered users than entire population of the United States at around 250m. ...
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