Be the Difference: Mozilla Announces Week of Service
Mozilla and Idealist have announced a partnership for Mozilla’s Week of Service—a week where volunteers work with non-profits to “make the web a better place for everyone.”
Read MoreQ&A with Feedalizr’s Rafiq Phillips
A few weeks ago Rafiq Phillips of MIH in South Africa and Webaddicts allowed me a chance to sneak peak a development version of the desktop social messaging Feedalizer, one which has since been released to the public and very well received. I decided to conduct a quick Q&A with him to see how development was going and what the history of their team was.
Read MoreRealtime Web for the Bottom Billion
Recently there’s been an explosion in the relevance of ‘real-time’ applications like Friend Feed and Twitter. The ability to get information from the masses on one part of the planet to the masses somewhere else has never been greater. Still, despite all the wonders that devices like the iPhone, apps like Twitterific and search engines [...]
Read MoreBig Bing Theory
“But It’s Not Google” is the cheeky acronym some in the tech community have given to Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Microsoft has spent $80 million dollars in advertising, hundreds of millions in acquisitions (by acquiring Powerset last year) and over a year in development on a new campaign aimed at supplanting Google as the [...]
Read MoreStatus.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, but a bane in the sense that they have a hard time monetizing that international traffic. As I wrote that post, I had one of the projects we were working [...]
Read MoreHow To Save Money as an African Startup
Jason Calacanis recently wrote a blog post entitled “How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)” that got me thinking. Does any of this apply to my business here in Uganda? If so what and why? It turned out a lot applied. I’ve bootstrapped this company from nothing, and now I’m still [...]
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