The Day the Designer Died
No one embodies the three things we strive for at Appfrica than the man the world lost today. Design. Leadership. Vision. We salute you, Mr. Steve Jobs. Best wishes from me, Jon, and our colleagues and friends in Uganda.
Innovation in a black tie
..As one of the most exciting and significant bi-monthly networking sessions for people in IT and Telecoms, The Innovation Dinner Series brings together decision makers and top-flight speakers to discuss burning issues in the ICT Industry.- ITNews Africa
Is Facebook the Zimbabwe of the Web?
OnePage co-founder Oo Nwoye asks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter to stop pulling a ‘Robert Mugabe’ on his users… Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe and independence hero successfully made his country’s economy the best in Africa, then made it the worst. He goes on to offer a few ideas on how Facebook … Read more
TED Talks Go to TV
TED, the international conference of big ideas, and even bigger names, has opened it’s archive for broadcasters all over the world to use for free. Previously TED talks, filmed at the ultra exclusive TED conferences, were only available via the TED.com website (prior to 2007 they were only available by actually being there.) Find out … Read more
ICANN Launches International Domain Names
ICANN today finally released the Internationalized Domain Namespace which allows for the non-latin characters in languages like Farsi, Arabic and Chinese. How does it look? But what’s going on behind the scenes? What if I don’t have these character sets on my machine or if I’m in the command line? Here’s what the URL above … Read more
The Apple Tablet's Role in Emerging Markets
At a little more than double the price of the One Laptop Per Child’s XO-1 and equal in price to nearly every decent netbook on the market, the Apple Tablet has been announced and it’s entry level price is only $499. It’s certainly cheaper than most full fledged laptops making it a not-so-luxury choice for … Read more
Unicorns Happen: Apple Tablet, Zune Phone
The internet has a complex. Sometimes we want things to exist so bad that we, the public, simply hang on to any shred of potential evidence that points to their existence. The tech community calls these beasts ‘unicorns‘, items that would be magnificent if they did exist but theres simply not enough proof. Case in … Read more
The Open Source Embargo
Or “Separate but Equal hits the Open Source Community”. I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites do it, particularly television and movie sites and financially sensitive websites. The reasoning I can often gather from looking at the terms of service and other language is that … Read more
The Iranian Cyber War on Twitter
Twitter is down again but this time it may be the result of an explicit attack similar to the one that took down Facebook and Twitter a few months ago. Has a group of Iranian hackers dubbed the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ waged war on Twitter? Techcrunch reports…
Shuttleworth Steps Down as CEO to Design
You know you’re successful when you start climbing the corporate ladder in reverse. Mark Shuttleworth, the South African, space faring, billionaire CEO of Canonical (the enterprise side of Ubuntu) has announced he’s stepping down as CEO to focus on product design and innovation. From his blog… From March next year, I’ll focus my Canonical energy … Read more
