William Kamkwamba’s Streak of Genius

Tom Rielly, partnership director of TED (Technology, Education, Design) Conferences introduced BlackWeb20.com to this amazing young man, William Kamkwamba. William is barely 20 years old, a former school dropout from a small village in Malawi, Africa, and proof positive that technology knows few boundaries. Watch this video about William and note that his next endeavor has a little, ahem, something to do with Internet access.

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Three of Inc.’s Top 10 Black-Owned Businesses are Tech Companies

Since the age of 12, Andre Gudger has been an “ethical hacker.” In addition to a fascination with computer programming, he was generally studious growing up. “I took every book home from my locker from 6th grade through my senior year in high school,” he says. (Read the rest here.)

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Does a Race have a brand?

I can't take it anymore, I just looked at the trending topics on Twitter and number one is #uknowublackwhen and the tweets that flowing in at an alarming rate are TERRIBLE! Most of the tweets are racist, stereotypical and appalling. To some they may be funny but to me they're not. It just shows to others that we need to learn some online etiquette ASAP!

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Recovery.gov: Track the Stimulus Package Online

President Obama signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 today, and while much of the $789 billion in spending provided over the legislation’s 1,100 pages will take years to make its way into the economy, one provision of the bill is already being enacted: The White House has launched Recovery.gov, a site designed [...]

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Surviving the Economic Forest Fire

As the sub-prime mortgage market continues to drive down housing prices, so goes consumer spending. As most of you may know consumer spending is a key catalyst helping to propel the booming online advertising industry. As consumer companies are forced to reassess budget allocations, one of the first casualties in corporate budgets is usually [...]

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The Money Trail 6-27-2008

San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners. http://www.seesmic.com

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SXSW Podcast- Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers?

SXSW has finally released the much anticipated panel “Where are the Black Tech Bloggers?” The panel, moderated by Lynne D. Johnson, was an insightful open dialog about racism in technology with some of the brightest minds in tech blogging.

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Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps

Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools. Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]

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