Tag Archives: facebook

Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions

Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot ...
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Is Facebook the Zimbabwe of the Web?

 OnePage co-founder Oo Nwoye asks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter to stop pulling a ‘Robert Mugabe’ on his users… Mugabe, the President of ...
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Lessons from Start-Up School

Y-Cominbator’s Start-Up School put the spotlight on some of tech’s most successful entrepreneurs, giving them an open mike to talk about their experiences and give ...
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Status.ug: A Local Mobile Portal for Facebook

Last week I rebutted an article from the New York Times about the developing world being a collective boost to Web 2.0 application user numbers, ...
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Answerbird Flies High

In the first of a series of profiles on my staff’s projects and works in progress, today I’m featuring Felix ‘Kayt’ Kitaka and his Facebook ...
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Facebook’s Africa Numbers

Facebook just hit a major milestone, 150 million users world wide. How much is Africa contributing to that number? Let’s take a look: South Africa has ...
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Appfricast 3

Following the Facebook Dev Garage in Uganda, I interviewed Appfrica Labs and Makerere University Student Moses Mugisha, successful Ugandan web entrepreneur Benge Solomon King from ...
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Appfricast 2

Interview with Facebook senior engineer Charlie Cheever and Samasource founder Leila Chirayath at Makerere University in Uganda! Also how it all came about and why ...
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Appfricast 1.2

Another Appfricast! While testing out my podcast syndication tools I discuss the upcoming Facebook Garage, Barcamp Ghana and Vodafone’s Widget Zone. [M4A | MP3] Subscribe ...
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2008 Google Zeitgeist Report for South Africa

2008 has been a year of change in South Africa, and people have been using Google to keep abreast of the most interesting news and ...
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