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The Not-So Inclusive Web and Network Failure [Part 1]
Dawn Douglass recently asked the question, “How can the Web truly be “open” when only young white male geeks get to decide what the Web is?” I spend a lot of time thinking about technology. Every...
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Top Social Networks as Countries
MySpace has the most registered users, reporting to have just 50 million less registered users than entire population of the United States at around 250m. Facebook has 175m registered users, nearly as...
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This Week in Appfrica [Feb 15 – 21, 2009]
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this blog, head over the sponsor page for details...
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Facebook's Africa Numbers
Facebook just hit a major milestone, 150 million users world wide. How much is Africa contributing to that number? Let’s take a look: South Africa has 1.1 million users. Egypt has just over 900,000....
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Couchsurfing.com: Crowdsourcing Hospitality
The first rule of Couchsurfing is to talk about Couchsurfing! Couchsurfing.com, or ‘CS’ as you’ll hear members referring to it, is an online social network modeled after Servas Open Doors which was...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood TED Fellow
I’m happy to formally announce my participation in the TED Fellows program this coming July in Oxford, UK. I’ve been a huge fan of TED ever since I saw talks by people like Andrew Mwenda, Jonathan...
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Affect Theory
An excerpt from an essay on social capital and investments I posted over at the TED Fellows Blog… In Makerere’s Computer Science program they graduate about 900 kids per year. Of those 900 between 5%...
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Visualization of Social Networks Around the World
Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza posted an interesting visualization today at RWW. Click the above photo to check it out…
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Coded in Country | Stoking Local Innovation
Can institutions [be they international organizations, companies, universities, foundations or governments] enable innovation in local technology industries? We explored this question on a rainy...
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Best of Appfrica 2009
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, for individuals and companies alike. For Appfrica it’s no exception as we profile the twelve most trafficked stories from the blog. Last year we...
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