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Just A Band, a Kenyan Music group behind the makmende viral campaign, yesterday declared that they do not have any affiliation to the two (increasingly popuar) websites i.e. www.makmende.com and www.makmende.net from their official twitter profile. This kept me thinking, who are the opportunists behind the websites (I must admit they are quite stealth…and thorough)? [...]

The power of social media is finally making corporates think alot harder in Kenya. Just-a-band, a Kenyan music group has produced a viral campaign following the release of there second single from their latest album, 82. In a matter of days, the name makmende is on the lips, statuses and text messages of tens of [...]

In an effort to localise its geo-products, Google has launched detailed online maps of several Ugandan towns. The maps, accessible on Google Maps, signal Google’s relevance to Ugandan users and support in the development and innovation of local content. “This is an exciting pan-African launch, enabling us to improve maps functionality for Africa and to [...]

This is definitely some good news, Orange Kenya, which is part of Telkom Kenya has started interacting with their customers on the social media platforms. This is a very good development as Orange Kenya becomes the third Kenyan Mobile operator to have an official facebook page (The others being Zain and Yu) and the first [...]

Just wondering why the website goes down everytime results are about to be released….I doubt it gets more hits than lets say cnn or bbc. Talk about being denied service when you need it the most. I think the Kenyan Government ought to invest abit more in this particular area. The good thing is that [...]

Kenya’s innovative/tech space seems to be growing in leaps and bounds as days pass by. Three of Kenya’s rapidly growing network of young ICT innovators and entrepreneurs have been selected to make showcase presentations on their products at AITEC’s forthcoming Banking and Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. They are Agosta Liko, Founder of [...]

Its normally encouraging when a behemoth of a company like Google awards an African company such a contract. Afripractice describes themselves as an African company with an African voice, committed to telling Africa’s stories. Their vision is of a thriving African private sector driving socioeconomic development. Africapractice will handle Google’s PR in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, [...]

I was met a plesant suprise this morning….Google buzz!! Its implementation on this part of the world was quite fast considering twitter hasn’t rolled out trending topics for any of the countries in this here continent (read Africa).  What is of interest though is how the social media scene will be in the next couple [...]

26 year old Bade Adesemowo won the best use of technology award at the The Future Awards 2010 held in Nigeria on Sunday 7th January 2010.  The Future Awards  held its annual awards recognizing outstanding young Nigerians. As an ICT consultant, Bade does a lot of work with Open source technology and Social Media which [...]

The African Tech Network, the first initiative of webstartAfrica, was conceived under the idea that African technologists of many kinds need a platform: to better market themselves for prospective opportunities, whether freelance or for full-time employment, to network with other technologists to build and strengthen their professional network, and to be informed about African tech [...]