Tag Archives: obama

Should the White House Contribute to the Open Source Community?

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

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

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’

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

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?

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

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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