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Evidence of Language Discovered in Monkeys

December 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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TEDx Week

November 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
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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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Gmail Adds Transliteration

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One of the biggest complaints from a lot of non-english speakers is that there’s an inherent bias towards English and other languages that use Roman ...
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This Blog in Luganda

January 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I met Miquel from Maneno at Barcamp Africa a few months ago. He told me about his start-up blog platform and their efforts to support ...
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Okulwanira Empuliziganya Y’omungalo, N’okutataganyizibwa Kwayo

January 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Christian Kreutz atunuulira engeri omulembe gw’ebyempulizaganya eby’omungalo (amasimu) bwe gukyase wabula ne gufuuka kanaaluzaala mu nsi ezikyakula… Annyonnyola nti embeera y’okulwanirira okutumbula ebyempuliziganya bino ...
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State of African Language Wikimedia Projects

December 22, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Greenman reviews African language wikimedia contributions and how far they’ve come since May… Afrikaans remains the largest African language Wikipedia (and 79th largest overall), remaining comfortably ...
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Appfricast 4

December 18, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Back to the Future! DotSub subtitles web video in multiple languages, Blueworld gets a make over, Yahoo launches Mail Apps, and YouTube faces competitive threat. [M4A ...
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Buzzwords of African Tech 2009

October 8, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In preparation for Barcamp Africa I’ve collected a list of words and phrases that I think will define African tech in 2009. They’re definitely ...
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Interview With Luganda/Firefox Translator Olweny San James

September 16, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into ...
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