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Should the White House Contribute to the Open Source Community?

October 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The White House is going open source. Over the weekend, the White House announced that whitehouse.gov now runs on Drupal. Until now, the Obama administration ...
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Appfricast 5

January 22, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Bigger, better, uncut! It’s the first Appfricast of the new year. This episode discusses the phonetic Arabic search engine Yamli, the Legoland Inauguration, Photosynth, Souktel ...
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African Tech 2008: Year in Review

December 8, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Wow, It’s hard to believe that 2008 is coming to a close. What a year can change!? Obama won the U.S. Presidency; Zimbabwe, Somalia and ...
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‘Clearly Africa is like a New World Again’

November 13, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Alan Patricof of the Huffington Post writes about his time spent in Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Abuja, Nigeria following the election of Barrack Obama ...
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Africans Break Records Googling Obama

November 6, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Apparently, Africans have been information starved for facts about Barrack Obama and they’ve been turning to Google for that info. According to Google Insights, ...
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Sarah Palin Thinks Africa is a Country?

November 6, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A little morning gossip. Apparently former vice-presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin didn’t know that Africa is not a country, according to a Fox News correspondent… Perhaps ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Backs Obama

October 21, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Google was one of the biggest backers of cleantech companies last year and Eric Schmidt recently revealed that he was advising the Obama campaign on ...
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