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Lessons from Start-Up School

October 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

May 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

May 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

March 4, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

December 15, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

December 12, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

December 11, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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

December 11, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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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Facebook Uganda Workshop Dec. 13, 2008

December 8, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Silicon Valley, USA and Kampala, Uganda – The first Facebook Developer Garage to be held in Uganda is set to take place in Kampala on ...
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Facebook Comes to Kampala

November 17, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
So a few months ago when I began organizing the Kampala Facebook Garage I was initially a little daunted. I was worried bout getting ...
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