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Ushahidi is Haiti 9-1-1

Ushahidi is Haiti 9-1-1
The Ushahidi team continues to do a brilliant job on the Haiti crisis. Tracking what’s going on the ground. Here are a couple of updates: Of course, the Haiti Ushahidi instance You can keep up with the activities in the Ushahidi Haiti Situation Room (at Fletcher). Haiti Twitter Tracker –...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT, STARTUPS

Adgator Partners with AD:Dynamo

Adgator Partners with AD:Dynamo
The Afrigator founders now beginning to enjoy the benefits of being in control. Afrigator subsidiary, Adator teamed up with Ad:Dynamo, a new South African startup that aims to compete head on with Google Adsense. Ad:Dynamo will mainly handle the cost per click ads while adgator handles cost per impression....Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB

Ushahidi now tracking incidences in Haiti

Ushahidi now tracking incidences in Haiti
Ushahidi, as explained on their website, means “testimony” in Swahili. It is a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. Ushahidi Team acted swiftly to put together haiti.ushahidi.com...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB

Myscoop gets a new look and feel

Myscoop gets a new look and feel
Competition in blog agregation and social bookmaking has increased in the recent months with developments like Afrigator’s founders buying back shares from MIH. Myscoop today annouced an improved look and feel via the founder’s (Nick Duncan) blog. Some of the new features included in the...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB, STARTUPS

Webtrendsng.com's first anniversary

Webtrendsng.com's first anniversary
Webtrendsng.com is a Nigerian Startup that collects web statistics relating to Nigeria. Web Trends Nigeria is a subsidiary of Unleashed Business Concepts (UBC) Group, a technology holding company based in Lagos Nigeria. It was founded a year ago and according to their website, they describe themselves...Read Full Post
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EVENTS, INTERNET & WEB

Ushahidi/FrontlineSMS Talk at UoN

Ushahidi/FrontlineSMS Talk at UoN
It’s hard to talk about what’s happening in technology in Africa without mentioning Ushahidi… Today Erik Hersman and Juliana Rotich of Ushahidi gave a talk/presentation to University of Nairobi students on Ushahidi and FrontlineSMS. Here’s a synopsis of the presentation as it...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB

Mapping the Largest Slum in Africa

Mapping the Largest Slum in Africa
OpenStreetMap’s, Mikel Maron came to Kenya with one mission – to map Africa’s largest slum! Wow! What a mission. And what a relevant one too. Kibera has been a blank spot on online maps for a long time. Yet it’s interesting that up to 700,000 people (by some estimations) live...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB

Google Docs' serious security flaw

Google Docs' serious security flaw
I discovered this by chance when I was sent a very confidential excel file which I could have sworn was password protected. On opening it with google docs, it openned automagically without asking for a password! Gasp! I immediately called the sender and asked him to password protect the document but...Read Full Post
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