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It would also allow them to compete more directly with FriendFeed and Tumblr.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:31:"T-Mobile/USA Hijacks Open Ports";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/";s:8:"comments";s:75:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:45:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Blogcodedevelopmentlinuxterminalunix";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=315";s:11:"description";s:317:"If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1915:"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  I didn&#8217;t realize this until today when I was trying to connect to my django host using Terminal.</p>\n<p>Normally the opening Terminal results in a default window that looks like this:<br />\n<code><br />\nusername_macbook:~ username$<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s get a list of all our open communications ports by typing ls <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong>  This command normally returns something that looks like:<br />\n<code>dev/tty.BTRS232                        /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-AppleAgent-1<br />\n/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem                /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-Dial-UpNetwor-2<br />\n/dev/tty.KeySerial1                     /dev/tty.modem<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>When I was at borders today I opened this and noticed something odd&#8230;<br />\n<code><br />\n250:~ username$<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly what that 250 means but I assume it&#8217;s got something to do with taking over my open ports and filtering them through whatever T-Mobile device is used in-store.  To confirm this I typed <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong> again which returned:</p>\n<p><code>/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem	/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync</code></p>\n<p>This essentially means I have no open ports except these two Bluetooth ports.  </p>\n<p>Now, we know T-Mobile does this because they don&#8217;t want to be held liable for hackers attacking users of their networks.  Unfortunately that means from now on when I need to do real work I&#8217;ll just stay home instead of spending money with them.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:71:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:317:"If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1915:"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  I didn&#8217;t realize this until today when I was trying to connect to my django host using Terminal.</p>\n<p>Normally the opening Terminal results in a default window that looks like this:<br />\n<code><br />\nusername_macbook:~ username$<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s get a list of all our open communications ports by typing ls <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong>  This command normally returns something that looks like:<br />\n<code>dev/tty.BTRS232                        /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-AppleAgent-1<br />\n/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem                /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-Dial-UpNetwor-2<br />\n/dev/tty.KeySerial1                     /dev/tty.modem<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>When I was at borders today I opened this and noticed something odd&#8230;<br />\n<code><br />\n250:~ username$<br />\n</code></p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly what that 250 means but I assume it&#8217;s got something to do with taking over my open ports and filtering them through whatever T-Mobile device is used in-store.  To confirm this I typed <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong> again which returned:</p>\n<p><code>/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem	/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync</code></p>\n<p>This essentially means I have no open ports except these two Bluetooth ports.  </p>\n<p>Now, we know T-Mobile does this because they don&#8217;t want to be held liable for hackers attacking users of their networks.  Unfortunately that means from now on when I need to do real work I&#8217;ll just stay home instead of spending money with them.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Testing Out Blog Networks";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/";s:8:"comments";s:70:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:05:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:17:"Blogfacebookyahoo";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=314";s:11:"description";s:313:"\nBlog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s MyBlogLog.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up GosDot and Appfrica which you can check out by clicking the links.\n\n        [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:822:"<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/blognetworks_logo.gif" alt="Blog Networks" width="150" height="133" /></p>\n<p>Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="http://mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a>.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up <a title="FaceBook Blog Networks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8481" target="_blank">GosDot</a> and <a title="Appfrica at Blog Newtworks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8480" target="_blank">Appfrica</a> which you can check out by clicking the links.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:313:"\nBlog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s MyBlogLog.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up GosDot and Appfrica which you can check out by clicking the links.\n\n        [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:822:"<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/blognetworks_logo.gif" alt="Blog Networks" width="150" height="133" /></p>\n<p>Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="http://mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a>.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up <a title="FaceBook Blog Networks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8481" target="_blank">GosDot</a> and <a title="Appfrica at Blog Newtworks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8480" target="_blank">Appfrica</a> which you can check out by clicking the links.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Push Button Publisher";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:51:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:29:"Blogbloggingpublishingupdates";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=313";s:11:"description";s:319:"I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with Appfrica I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1301:"<p>I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with <a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica</a> I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of this site on two areas: Graphic Design and Web Development/Design</p>\n<p>All my social media discussion can be found at the <a href="http://appfrica.net">Appfrica blog</a> as it relates to work there..</p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re confused, where can you find <a title="jongos" href="http://claimid.com/jongos" target="_blank">Jon Gos</a> on the WWW these days?  </p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica.org</a><br />\n<a href="http://smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine</a><br />\n<a href="http://imaginepublishing.co.uk/">Imaginepublishing.co.uk</a><br />\n<a href="http://developertutorials.com/blog/">Developertutorials.com</a><br />\n<a href="http://weworkforfree.net">weworkforfree.net</a></p>\n<p>I never expected to be a professional blogger but with the increasing amount of gigs I&#8217;m getting, that might just be possible.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:319:"I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with Appfrica I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1301:"<p>I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with <a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica</a> I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of this site on two areas: Graphic Design and Web Development/Design</p>\n<p>All my social media discussion can be found at the <a href="http://appfrica.net">Appfrica blog</a> as it relates to work there..</p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re confused, where can you find <a title="jongos" href="http://claimid.com/jongos" target="_blank">Jon Gos</a> on the WWW these days?  </p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica.org</a><br />\n<a href="http://smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine</a><br />\n<a href="http://imaginepublishing.co.uk/">Imaginepublishing.co.uk</a><br />\n<a href="http://developertutorials.com/blog/">Developertutorials.com</a><br />\n<a href="http://weworkforfree.net">weworkforfree.net</a></p>\n<p>I never expected to be a professional blogger but with the increasing amount of gigs I&#8217;m getting, that might just be possible.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"This Week in Web News";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:47:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:23:"Blognewssocial mediaweb";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=312";s:11:"description";s:360:"I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.\nThe biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2783:"<p>I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, <a href="http://appfrica.pbwiki.com/">Appfrica</a>, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.</p>\n<p>The biggest is the announcement that <a title="Flickr Founders Leaving" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/learning_from_flickrs_cofounde.php" target="_blank">Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave</a> the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is big, not only because they&#8217;ve been pretty adamant about staying involved with their pet project but because Yahoo! is in the middle of formulating new strategies to appease angry shareholers after that much publicized Microsoft acquisition failed.  They&#8217;re also under increased pressure to breathe life back into their stock which has also suffered in the wake of that same deal.</p>\n<p>Technorati announced some new funding, no doubt related to <a title="technorati gets 10 million" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/long_tail_ad_network_technorati_media.php" target="_blank">the longtail business model they just unveiled</a>.  Technorati essentially plans to allow bloggers and publishers of all levels of popularity to sell ads.</p>\n<p>The Huffington Post is also making a major step towards becoming an even bigger news media outlet.  <a title="Huffington Post Localized News" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php" target="_blank">They intend to compete in localized news markets</a> initially offering a Chicago, Illinois portal and eventually expanding to include other regions of the country. This is apparently part of a larger strategy to move beyond solely political blogging, which has obviously been critical in this election year.</p>\n<blockquote cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php"><p>&#8220;We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began,&#8221; Huffington said.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost certain this will either lead to acquisition offers by the major media news outlets who are (or should be) afraid of Huffington&#8217;s growing dominance on the web.</p>\n<p>Lastly, Facebook surpassed Myspace to become <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/facebook-opens-up-worldwide-lead-in-may/"> the most popular social network worldwide</a>.  Considering it was valued by analysts at over a billion dollars only a few months ago, this adds more validity to speculation that Facebook will file for an IPO and go public soon.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:360:"I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.\nThe biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2783:"<p>I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, <a href="http://appfrica.pbwiki.com/">Appfrica</a>, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.</p>\n<p>The biggest is the announcement that <a title="Flickr Founders Leaving" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/learning_from_flickrs_cofounde.php" target="_blank">Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave</a> the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is big, not only because they&#8217;ve been pretty adamant about staying involved with their pet project but because Yahoo! is in the middle of formulating new strategies to appease angry shareholers after that much publicized Microsoft acquisition failed.  They&#8217;re also under increased pressure to breathe life back into their stock which has also suffered in the wake of that same deal.</p>\n<p>Technorati announced some new funding, no doubt related to <a title="technorati gets 10 million" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/long_tail_ad_network_technorati_media.php" target="_blank">the longtail business model they just unveiled</a>.  Technorati essentially plans to allow bloggers and publishers of all levels of popularity to sell ads.</p>\n<p>The Huffington Post is also making a major step towards becoming an even bigger news media outlet.  <a title="Huffington Post Localized News" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php" target="_blank">They intend to compete in localized news markets</a> initially offering a Chicago, Illinois portal and eventually expanding to include other regions of the country. This is apparently part of a larger strategy to move beyond solely political blogging, which has obviously been critical in this election year.</p>\n<blockquote cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php"><p>&#8220;We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began,&#8221; Huffington said.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost certain this will either lead to acquisition offers by the major media news outlets who are (or should be) afraid of Huffington&#8217;s growing dominance on the web.</p>\n<p>Lastly, Facebook surpassed Myspace to become <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/facebook-opens-up-worldwide-lead-in-may/"> the most popular social network worldwide</a>.  Considering it was valued by analysts at over a billion dollars only a few months ago, this adds more validity to speculation that Facebook will file for an IPO and go public soon.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Google Revamps Jaiku";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:13:"Blogwordpress";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=311";s:11:"description";s:336:"The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;\n\nJaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2096:"<p>The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;</p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.</p>\n<p>But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&#038;A about the acquisition.</p>\n<p>Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders\n</p></blockquote>\n<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_twitter_be_saved.php">In the past few weeks</a> Twitter has faced confusion and what some might call a mass exodus of users because of the fact that it was unprepared for such heavy traffic from users.  The combination of high traffic, too many calls to the API and the strain of Instant mesaging has brought the Twitter servers to their knees more than once.  <strike>Now it appears Google is kicking the service while it&#8217;s down <a href="http://jaiku.com/help/google">by purchasing Jaiku</a>, Twitter&#8217;s nearest competitor.</strike>  Now it appears Google may be prepping a big relaunch of the service it purchased last year, Jaiku. Meanwhile new competitor Plurk and FreindFeed continue to experience rapid booms in growth from former Twitter users who seem to be debating on weather or not they want to stick with the ailing service.</p>\n<p><strong>Note:</strong> This post has been corrected due to an error on my part.  I left the original erroneous text but <strike>struck it out</strike> to avoid confusion.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:336:"The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;\n\nJaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2096:"<p>The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;</p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.</p>\n<p>But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&#038;A about the acquisition.</p>\n<p>Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders\n</p></blockquote>\n<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_twitter_be_saved.php">In the past few weeks</a> Twitter has faced confusion and what some might call a mass exodus of users because of the fact that it was unprepared for such heavy traffic from users.  The combination of high traffic, too many calls to the API and the strain of Instant mesaging has brought the Twitter servers to their knees more than once.  <strike>Now it appears Google is kicking the service while it&#8217;s down <a href="http://jaiku.com/help/google">by purchasing Jaiku</a>, Twitter&#8217;s nearest competitor.</strike>  Now it appears Google may be prepping a big relaunch of the service it purchased last year, Jaiku. 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I left the original erroneous text but <strike>struck it out</strike> to avoid confusion.</p>\n\n        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Google Goes Gonzo";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/06/google-goes-gonzo/";s:8:"comments";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/06/google-goes-gonzo/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:02:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Blogdevelopmentefailemailgmailgoogle";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=309";s:11:"description";s:342:"From what I&#8217;ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas.  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changeset and list of changed files</a>.</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:362:"Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2.  If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1986:"<p><a href="http://www.suspekt.org/">Stefan Esser</a> recently warned developers of the dangers of <a href="http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities/">SQL Column Truncation</a> and the <a href="http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/17/mt_srand-and-not-so-random-numbers/">weakness of mt_rand()</a>.  With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2.  If you allow open 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is already protected from the full exploit.  You should still upgrade to 2.6.2 if you allow open user registration so as to prevent the possibility of passwords being randomized.</p>\n<p>2.6.2 also contains a <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.6.2&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority">handful of bug fixes</a>.  Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6.1&amp;old=8849&amp;new_path=tags%2F2.6.2&amp;new=8849">full changeset and list of changed files</a>.</p>\n";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"WordPress 2.6.1";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/08/wordpress-261/";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/08/wordpress-261/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ryan";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=297";s:11:"description";s:336:"With 2.6.1, we&#8217;re continuing our trend of 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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext">gettext</a> bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed.  For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.</p>\n<p>Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.6.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority">full list of over 60 fixes</a> to see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.   A <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6&amp;old=8652&amp;new_path=tags%2F2.6.1&amp;new=8652">full diff and list of changed files</a> is also available.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.6.1</a> and enjoy.</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/08/wordpress-261/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:336:"With 2.6.1, we&#8217;re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable &#8220;dot zero&#8221; bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you&#8217;re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1495:"<p>With 2.6.1, we&#8217;re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable &#8220;dot zero&#8221; bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you&#8217;re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the job done.</p>\n<p>2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users.  Styling of the admin for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text">right-to-left languages</a> is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext">gettext</a> bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed.  For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. 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Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.</p>\n<p>Check out the <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=2.6.1&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;order=priority">full list of over 60 fixes</a> to see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.   A <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6&amp;old=8652&amp;new_path=tags%2F2.6.1&amp;new=8652">full diff and list of changed files</a> is also available.  <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">Download 2.6.1</a> and enjoy.</p>\n";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Theme Directory";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/theme-directory/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/theme-directory/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:11:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:12:"Joseph Scott";}s:8:"category";s:10:"Metathemes";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=266";s:11:"description";s:353:"It&#8217;s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes.  Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes.  With the success of the plugins directory, we&#8217;ve wanted to have those same [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2453:"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/4426/upcoming-changes/">themes.wordpress.net</a> stopped accepting new themes.  Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes.  With the success of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">plugins directory</a>, we&#8217;ve wanted to have those same benefits in a theme directory.  Today is the day we start making that happen, with the introduction of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">wordpress.org/extend/themes/</a>.</p>\n<p>Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/">extend</a>&#8221; umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org.  If you&#8217;ve browsed through the plugin directory, you&#8217;ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors.  You don&#8217;t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/">upload page</a>.  From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.</p>\n<p>Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/about/#requirements">requirements</a> for each theme.  If we find one that you missed we&#8217;ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed.  When a theme upload has been accepted we&#8217;ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn&#8217;t miss anything.  After the theme has been approved you&#8217;ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.</p>\n<p>That catches you up to where we&#8217;re at today.  When you finish that theme you&#8217;ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we&#8217;re starting fresh from zero. If you&#8217;ve got specific questions or suggestions <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/contact/">contact us</a> and we&#8217;ll do our best to get them answered.</p>\n";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/theme-directory/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:353:"It&#8217;s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes.  Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes.  With the success of the plugins directory, we&#8217;ve wanted to have those same [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2453:"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since <a href="http://themes.wordpress.net/blog/4426/upcoming-changes/">themes.wordpress.net</a> stopped accepting new themes.  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You don&#8217;t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/">upload page</a>.  From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.</p>\n<p>Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/about/#requirements">requirements</a> for each theme.  If we find one that you missed we&#8217;ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed.  When a theme upload has been accepted we&#8217;ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn&#8217;t miss anything.  After the theme has been approved you&#8217;ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.</p>\n<p>That catches you up to where we&#8217;re at today.  When you finish that theme you&#8217;ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we&#8217;re starting fresh from zero. If you&#8217;ve got specific questions or suggestions <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/contact/">contact us</a> and we&#8217;ll do our best to get them answered.</p>\n";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:13:"WordPress 2.6";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:42 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:8:"category";s:8:"Releases";s:4:"guid";s:39:"http://wordpress.org/development/?p=246";s:11:"description";s:340:" I&#8217;m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 &#8220;Tyner,&#8221; named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:10270:"<p><iframe src=''http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fsoftware%2FWordPress_2_6_Tyner_Released'' height=''82'' width=''55'' frameborder=''0'' scrolling=''no'' style=''float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;''></iframe> I&#8217;m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org <a href="http://wordpress.org/download/">is now available</a>, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 &#8220;Tyner,&#8221; named for jazz pianist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner">McCoy Tyner</a>, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/">version 2.5</a>.</p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it&#8217;s worth a watch:</p>\n<p><embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&#038;width=640&#038;height=385"> </embed></p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to embed the tour video in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version:</p>\n<pre name="code" class="html">\n&lt;embed src=&quot;http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;385&quot; flashvars=&quot;blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&amp;width=640&amp;height=385&quot;&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;\n</pre>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a smaller version, 400 pixels wide:</p>\n<pre name="code" class="html">\n&lt;embed src=&quot;http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_std&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; flashvars=&quot;blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&amp;width=400&amp;height=250&quot;&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;\n</pre>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a more textual overview of what&#8217;s hawt in 2.6:</p>\n<h3>Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits</h3>\n<p>With the power of modern computers, it&#8217;s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks. WordPress has always respected the importance of your writing with auto-save, and now we&#8217;re taking that to another level by allowing you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface, much like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&#038;action=history">Wikipedia</a> or a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion">version control system</a>.</p>\n<p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/diff.gif" alt="Differences between two versions of posts." class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3" /></p>\n<p>This is handy on any blog in case you make a mistake and want to go back to an older version of a post, and it&#8217;s super handy for multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.</p>\n<h3>Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web</h3>\n<p>A few months ago on my blog we <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/">started a conversation about the posting bookmarklet</a> in WordPress and which systems we should look to for inspiration, like Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious. From these suggestions and the Quick Post plugin by Josh Kenzer, we developed a Press This bookmark you can add to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog:</p>\n<p><img src="http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/press-this.gif" alt="Screenshot of Press This interface." title="press-this" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4" /></p>\n<p>For example, if you click &#8220;Press This&#8221; from a <a href="http://youtube.com/">Youtube</a> page it&#8217;ll magically extract the video embed code, and if you do it from a <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> page it&#8217;ll make it easy for you to put the image in your post. On my blog I&#8217;ve been experimenting with using different categories and the <code>in_category()</code> function &#8212; such as video, quote, aside, et cetera &#8212; to create a more tumblelog-like format.</p>\n<h3>Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging</h3>\n<p><a href="http://gears.google.com/">Gears</a> is an open source browser extension project started by Google that developers like us can use to give you features we wouldn&#8217;t normally be able to. There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release we&#8217;ve stuck to using what&#8217;s called a &#8220;Local Server&#8221; to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WordPress works just fine without it, you just get a little extra juice when you have it installed.</p>\n<h3>Theme Previews: See it before your audience does</h3>\n<p>Now when you select a theme it pops up a window that shows the theme live with all your content, instead of immediately making it active on your site. This is great for just test driving themes before making a switch over publicly, and it is also helpful when you are developing a theme and need to test it but don&#8217;t want everybody to see your ongoing <del datetime="2008-07-14T21:23:41+00:00">mistakes</del> development.</p>\n<p>Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Word count!</strong> Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.</li>\n<li><strong>Image captions</strong>, so you can add sweet captions <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/">like Political Ticker does</a> under your images.</li>\n<li><strong>Bulk management</strong> of plugins.</li>\n<li>A completely <strong>revamped image control</strong> to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It&#8217;s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.</li>\n<li>Drag-and-drop <strong>reordering of Galleries</strong>.</li>\n<li><strong>Plugin update</strong> notification bubble.</li>\n<li>Customizable default avatars.</li>\n<li>You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.</li>\n<li>Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.</li>\n<li>Full <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">SSL support</a> in the core, and the ability to <strong>force SSL</strong> for security.</li>\n<li>You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.</li>\n<li>Ability to move your <code>wp-config</code> file and <code>wp-content</code> directories to a custom location, for &#8220;clean&#8221; SVN checkouts.</li>\n<li>Select a range of checkboxes with &#8220;shift-click.&#8221;</li>\n<li>You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.</li>\n<li>A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.</li>\n<li>Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.</li>\n<li>Version 2.6 <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=2.6">fixes approximately 194 bugs</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Developer Notes</h3>\n<p>WordPress.org had over 75 people contributing code to WordPress 2.6. In addition to the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">core commit team</a> we had contributions from <a href="http://dd32.id.au/">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/">Austin Matzko</a>, <a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/">Otto42</a>, <a href="http://extralogical.net/">Benedict Eastaugh</a>, and <a href="http://www.freecharity.org.uk/">pishmishy</a>. <a href="http://xavisys.com/">AaronCampbell</a> and <a href="http://www.marcozehe.de/">Marco Zehe</a> provided more than a few patches. Back among the top code contributors is <a href="http://www.santosj.name/">Jacob Santos</a>. <a href="http://www.buayacorp.com/">Alex Concha</a> continues to have WordPress&#8217; back. Joining bug reporting and gardening elite are <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre">hakre</a>, <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/">Simon Wheatley</a>, mtekk, and <a href="http://www.prescriber.org.uk/">Matty Rob</a>. Finally, congratulations to our <a href="http://westi.wordpress.com/">Peter Westwood</a> on your recent wedding! I&#8217;m also proud to announce we&#8217;re adding a new core committer to the team: Andrew Ozz (azaozz) has been a huge help to the core team this year, particularly around TinyMCE and making the WYSIWYG something that works for you, not against you.</p>\n<p>Because of the new capabilities to make WordPress a clean SVN checkout, plugin and theme authors should do their best to handle forms and posts through WP rather than trying to post to their files directly, here&#8217;s a quick Codex article about <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Handling_POST_and_AJAX_Requests">how to do it using our forward-compatible APIs</a>.</p>\n<h3>Upgrading</h3>\n<p>2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless. The 2.5 branch will no longer be maintain so everyone is encouraged to upgrade. <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">Our standard 3-step upgrade instructions apply to this release</a>. There were at least 1,984,047 downloads of the 2.5 series, the fastest growing release we&#8217;ve ever had, and I think all of those people will find 2.6 adds a level of polish that really makes WP a pleasure to use every day. (At least I do. :))</p>\n<h3>Easter Egg</h3>\n<p>There have been rumors and allegations that there was a so-called &#8220;easter egg&#8221; added to 2.6 early in its development. These rumors and allegations are completely false!</p>\n<p>P.S. 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Where Sturvs really sets itself apart is through addition of customizable music playlists featuring contemporary Nigerian music and a few chart toppers from around the world&#8230;</p>\n<p><center><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-21.png"><img src="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-21-300x241.png" alt="" title="picture-21" width="300" height="241" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-741" /></a></center></p>\n<p>Much like Stacks in Digg&#8217;s Labs, Sturvs also features an Ajax based real-time cascading index of all the latest &#8217;sturvs&#8217; as they come in from various users&#8230; </p>\n<p><center><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-1.png"><img src="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-1-300x177.png" alt="" title="picture-1" width="300" height="177" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-740" /></a></center></p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s still very early for Sturvs, the potential is enormous.  We&#8217;ve already seen the incredible demand for user generated music playlists when <a href="http://muxtape.com">muxtape.com</a> came and then went.  If Sturvs can build on this aspect of the site, I&#8217;m sure that this feature alone will drive use. </p>\n<p>There are a few areas where I feel Sturvs should be focusing on setting itself apart, however.  For instance, voting incrementally on news is a model that was perfected by <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>, copied by <a href="http://mixx.com">Mixx</a>, overdone by <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> and open sourced by <a href="http://reddit.com">Reddit</a>. Even in Africa there&#8217;s already the mildly popular <a href="http://muti.co.za">Muti</a>.  The fact of the matter is, web democratic news is done.  There&#8217;s even a whole CMS dedicated to rolling out sites like this called <a href="http://www.pligg.com/">Pligg</a>. I&#8217;d really like to see some innovation with the UI instead of the typical one vote up one vote down iteration that we&#8217;ve seen time and time again.</p>\n<p>Also, despite the success of <a href="http://zoopy.com">Zoopy.com</a>, web video in Africa will never take off until the greater issue of bandwidth is solved continent wide.  While it shouldn&#8217;t be ignored entirely, I wouldn&#8217;t spend too many resources on video unless it&#8217;s in new compression techniques that would make video available to people on low-bandwidth connections (the majority of the connected continent).  Again, that alone would be a huge draw for users.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, I&#8217;m certain Sturvs will be a success.  After all, it has the potential to become the premier social news hub for a country with a population numbering just under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population">half of that of the United States</a>!  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the site scales up to meet that kind of demand.  One area that I can easily see Sturvs expanding into immediately is mobile. The door is wide open, only the future can show what kind of &#8217;stuff&#8217; Sturvs is made of!</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/426135150" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/738/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/738";}s:7:"summary";s:361:"I had the pleasure of meeting Temi Kolawole at Barcamp Africa in Mountain View last week. He recently launched a web start-up called Sturvs which could be described in short as &#8216;Nigeria&#8217;s answer to Digg.com&#8217;.\nThe word &#8220;sturvs&#8221; is a nigerian slang for &#8220;stuff&#8221;. So basically this is just a place for you to view and [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:5042:"<p><center><img src="http://www.sturvs.com/templates/yget/images/sturvs_logo.gif"></center></p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of meeting Temi Kolawole at Barcamp Africa in Mountain View last week. He recently launched a web start-up called <a href="http://sturvs.com">Sturvs</a> which could be described in short as &#8216;Nigeria&#8217;s answer to Digg.com&#8217;.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The word &#8220;sturvs&#8221; is a nigerian slang for &#8220;stuff&#8221;. So basically this is just a place for you to view and share all your internet stuff.</p>\n<p>Sturvs.com is a Nigerian web 2.0 sharing and voting website where users can share music, videos, articles, read news and also promote events and services. Sturvs can be used to share and also to store your web resources. If you find a really funny video you want your friends (and the rest of the Sturvs community) to see, all you have to do is post it on the website and watch it rise to the front page of Sturvs. You can also email existing &#8220;sturvs&#8221; to your friends and save them to your web bookmarks.</p>\n<p>Users are given the ability to vote on stories submitted by other users, and the &#8220;sturvs&#8221; with the highest votes make it to the front page. This means control is given to you, the user, to decide what makes it to the front page. It&#8217;s a web democracy. For the users, by the users.</p></blockquote>\n<p><center><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-3.png"><img src="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-3-300x146.png" alt="" title="picture-3" width="300" height="146" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-742" /></a></center></p>\n<p>Sturvs is well executed and goes a step beyond the pack by also offering a Firefox toolbar, Facebook app and various embeddable widgets.  Where Sturvs really sets itself apart is through addition of customizable music playlists featuring contemporary Nigerian music and a few chart toppers from around the world&#8230;</p>\n<p><center><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-21.png"><img src="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-21-300x241.png" alt="" title="picture-21" width="300" height="241" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-741" /></a></center></p>\n<p>Much like Stacks in Digg&#8217;s Labs, Sturvs also features an Ajax based real-time cascading index of all the latest &#8217;sturvs&#8217; as they come in from various users&#8230; </p>\n<p><center><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-1.png"><img src="http://appfrica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-1-300x177.png" alt="" title="picture-1" width="300" height="177" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-740" /></a></center></p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s still very early for Sturvs, the potential is enormous.  We&#8217;ve already seen the incredible demand for user generated music playlists when <a href="http://muxtape.com">muxtape.com</a> came and then went.  If Sturvs can build on this aspect of the site, I&#8217;m sure that this feature alone will drive use. </p>\n<p>There are a few areas where I feel Sturvs should be focusing on setting itself apart, however.  For instance, voting incrementally on news is a model that was perfected by <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>, copied by <a href="http://mixx.com">Mixx</a>, overdone by <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> and open sourced by <a href="http://reddit.com">Reddit</a>. Even in Africa there&#8217;s already the mildly popular <a href="http://muti.co.za">Muti</a>.  The fact of the matter is, web democratic news is done.  There&#8217;s even a whole CMS dedicated to rolling out sites like this called <a href="http://www.pligg.com/">Pligg</a>. I&#8217;d really like to see some innovation with the UI instead of the typical one vote up one vote down iteration that we&#8217;ve seen time and time again.</p>\n<p>Also, despite the success of <a href="http://zoopy.com">Zoopy.com</a>, web video in Africa will never take off until the greater issue of bandwidth is solved continent wide.  While it shouldn&#8217;t be ignored entirely, I wouldn&#8217;t spend too many resources on video unless it&#8217;s in new compression techniques that would make video available to people on low-bandwidth connections (the majority of the connected continent).  Again, that alone would be a huge draw for users.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, I&#8217;m certain Sturvs will be a success.  After all, it has the potential to become the premier social news hub for a country with a population numbering just under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population">half of that of the United States</a>!  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the site scales up to meet that kind of demand.  One area that I can easily see Sturvs expanding into immediately is mobile. The door is wide open, only the future can show what kind of &#8217;stuff&#8217; Sturvs is made of!</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/426135150" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:2;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:41:"This Week in Appfrica [Oct 12 - 18, 2008]";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/425304342/735";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/735#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:34:43 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:15:"TWIAdigestrecap";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=735";s:11:"description";s:349:"&#8220;This Week in Appfrica&#8221; is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week.\nAppfrica Archives &#124; Contact &#124; Twitter &#124; Weekly Digest &#124; Subscribe via E-mail\nIf you thought the blog was quiet this week; it was.  I spent two out of seven days in transit (flying from San Francisco, CA, USA to [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2533:"<p><sup>&#8220;This Week in Appfrica&#8221; is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week.<br />\n<a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archive/">Appfrica Archives</a> | <a href="mailto:j.gosier@appfrica.org">Contact</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/feed/?cat=266">Weekly Digest</a> | <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2145932&#038;loc=en_US">Subscribe via E-mail</a></sup></p>\n<p>If you thought the blog was quiet this week; it was.  I spent two out of seven days in transit (flying from San Francisco, CA, USA to Entebbe, Uganda) and three out the remaining five at the Social Capital Markets (SoCap08) conference, leaving little time to write.  </p>\n<h3><u>News</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/701">&#8220;Bandwidth is the new Oil&#8221;</a><br />\nThe idea that bandwidth is the new commodity that every nation is clamoring after.</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705">SoCap08 Recap</a><br />\nMy coverage of what took place at Social Capital Markets in Fort Mason.  I also published my <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/720">notes</a>.</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/717">Kenya Prepares for Slowdown in IT spending</a><br />\nHow is the world economic squeeze affecting East Africa&#8217;s leader?</p>\n<h3><u>Editorials</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/713">Niche vs Kitsch vs Reach</a><br />\nWhat&#8217;s driving this new interest from tech companies in social entrepreneurship?</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/731">Neo Pan-Africanism and the Reaspora</a><br />\nDefining a new age in pro-African enthusiasm.</p>\n<h3><u>From the Archives</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/211">Moving from Prepay to Subscription</a><br />\nLooking at the biggest hinderance to scaling in African markets.</p>\n<h3><u>Links to Appfrica</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/blog/2008/10/socap08-blog-round-up/">Social Capital Markets</a> linked back to my coverage of the conference.<br />\nGigaOM&#8217;s <a href="http://www.jonlowder.com/2008/10/blog-action-day.html">WebWorkerDaily</a> nodded to my efforts with Appfrica Labs.<br />\nGoogle&#8217;s <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/10/barcamp-africa.html">East Africa Blog</a> linked back mentioning my participation in BarcampAfrica.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/425304342" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/735/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/735";}s:7:"summary";s:349:"&#8220;This Week in Appfrica&#8221; is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week.\nAppfrica Archives &#124; Contact &#124; Twitter &#124; Weekly Digest &#124; Subscribe via E-mail\nIf you thought the blog was quiet this week; it was.  I spent two out of seven days in transit (flying from San Francisco, CA, USA to [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2533:"<p><sup>&#8220;This Week in Appfrica&#8221; is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week.<br />\n<a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archive/">Appfrica Archives</a> | <a href="mailto:j.gosier@appfrica.org">Contact</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/feed/?cat=266">Weekly Digest</a> | <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2145932&#038;loc=en_US">Subscribe via E-mail</a></sup></p>\n<p>If you thought the blog was quiet this week; it was.  I spent two out of seven days in transit (flying from San Francisco, CA, USA to Entebbe, Uganda) and three out the remaining five at the Social Capital Markets (SoCap08) conference, leaving little time to write.  </p>\n<h3><u>News</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/701">&#8220;Bandwidth is the new Oil&#8221;</a><br />\nThe idea that bandwidth is the new commodity that every nation is clamoring after.</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705">SoCap08 Recap</a><br />\nMy coverage of what took place at Social Capital Markets in Fort Mason.  I also published my <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/720">notes</a>.</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/717">Kenya Prepares for Slowdown in IT spending</a><br />\nHow is the world economic squeeze affecting East Africa&#8217;s leader?</p>\n<h3><u>Editorials</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/713">Niche vs Kitsch vs Reach</a><br />\nWhat&#8217;s driving this new interest from tech companies in social entrepreneurship?</p>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/731">Neo Pan-Africanism and the Reaspora</a><br />\nDefining a new age in pro-African enthusiasm.</p>\n<h3><u>From the Archives</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/211">Moving from Prepay to Subscription</a><br />\nLooking at the biggest hinderance to scaling in African markets.</p>\n<h3><u>Links to Appfrica</u></h3>\n<p><a href="http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/blog/2008/10/socap08-blog-round-up/">Social Capital Markets</a> linked back to my coverage of the conference.<br />\nGigaOM&#8217;s <a href="http://www.jonlowder.com/2008/10/blog-action-day.html">WebWorkerDaily</a> nodded to my efforts with Appfrica Labs.<br />\nGoogle&#8217;s <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/10/barcamp-africa.html">East Africa Blog</a> linked back mentioning my participation in BarcampAfrica.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/425304342" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:3;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Neo Pan-Africanism and the Reaspora";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/425028882/731";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/731#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:43:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:30:"Editorialbarcampafricareaspora";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=731";s:11:"description";s:359:"When many people around the globe hear expressions like &#8216;Africa for Africans&#8217; and &#8216;Pan-Africanism&#8217;, they tend to associate it with the more militant movements of decades past.  But there&#8217;s a new meme forming that I like to call Neo Pan-Africanism, the idea that Africa&#8217;s peoples have to take a more active role in the [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3114:"<p>When many people around the globe hear expressions like &#8216;Africa for Africans&#8217; and &#8216;Pan-Africanism&#8217;, they tend to associate it with the more militant movements of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_African">decades past</a>.  But there&#8217;s a new meme forming that I like to call <em>Neo Pan-Africanism</em>, the idea that Africa&#8217;s peoples have to take a more active role in the continent&#8217;s future because history has proven that foreign nations and domestic leaders often fail to have her best interests in mind.  </p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a philosophy that people like Andrew Mwenda speak of in reaction to <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/403">many years of misspent aid</a>, poor leadership and absent accountability in African governments.  &#8216;Trade not Aid&#8217; is a common catchphrase used to describe the movement.  Why? For one, trade directly supports the middle class and promotes entrepreneurship.  Meanwhile, developmental aid is often accused of undermining both and allows foreign nations to manipulate the policy decisions of African governments.  To have a healthy democracy the faucet that turns money on and off can&#8217;t be solely administrative, that&#8217;s more limiting to a prosperous middle class than anything else (look at Russia and China). Regardless of how foreigners feel, it seems to be mainly Africans themselves who are advocating the later idea.  People here are sick of seeing their leaders profiting at their expense and they&#8217;re sick of being seen as a continent of beggars when more often than not it&#8217;s those same governments leading the charge to ask for more.</p>\n<p>The fact that people are fed up is a good thing.  It means things are changing for the better. </p>\n<p>At <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/tag/barcampafrica">Barcamp Africa</a> a phrase was tossed about quite a bit referring to the trending of African expatriates returning back home to use their skills and money to better the continent.  This idea of a <em>reaspora</em> is directly associated to neo Pan-Africanism.  No one understands the region like Africans do and no one is inclined to help the region more than Africans.</p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important, though, to make a distinction.  Neo Pan-Africanism is a call for social responsibility by Africans to other Africans of the diaspora.  In most cases it has nothing to do with foreigners.  It&#8217;s not about kicking anyone out of the continent or persecuting people for what their ancestors did, it&#8217;s about people from the continent making sure they are most responsible and accountable for it&#8217;s successes and failures.  In other words, by definition it&#8217;s positive and progressive.  In fact, in a perfect world foreign nations would benefit even more from this idea as it would enable the world at large to participate more with the continent; allowing them to share Africa&#8217;s resources and enjoy it&#8217;s incredibly diverse cultures and traditions.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/425028882" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/731/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/731";}s:7:"summary";s:359:"When many people around the globe hear expressions like &#8216;Africa for Africans&#8217; and &#8216;Pan-Africanism&#8217;, they tend to associate it with the more militant movements of decades past.  But there&#8217;s a new meme forming that I like to call Neo Pan-Africanism, the idea that Africa&#8217;s peoples have to take a more active role in the [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:3114:"<p>When many people around the globe hear expressions like &#8216;Africa for Africans&#8217; and &#8216;Pan-Africanism&#8217;, they tend to associate it with the more militant movements of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_African">decades past</a>.  But there&#8217;s a new meme forming that I like to call <em>Neo Pan-Africanism</em>, the idea that Africa&#8217;s peoples have to take a more active role in the continent&#8217;s future because history has proven that foreign nations and domestic leaders often fail to have her best interests in mind.  </p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a philosophy that people like Andrew Mwenda speak of in reaction to <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/403">many years of misspent aid</a>, poor leadership and absent accountability in African governments.  &#8216;Trade not Aid&#8217; is a common catchphrase used to describe the movement.  Why? For one, trade directly supports the middle class and promotes entrepreneurship.  Meanwhile, developmental aid is often accused of undermining both and allows foreign nations to manipulate the policy decisions of African governments.  To have a healthy democracy the faucet that turns money on and off can&#8217;t be solely administrative, that&#8217;s more limiting to a prosperous middle class than anything else (look at Russia and China). Regardless of how foreigners feel, it seems to be mainly Africans themselves who are advocating the later idea.  People here are sick of seeing their leaders profiting at their expense and they&#8217;re sick of being seen as a continent of beggars when more often than not it&#8217;s those same governments leading the charge to ask for more.</p>\n<p>The fact that people are fed up is a good thing.  It means things are changing for the better. </p>\n<p>At <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/tag/barcampafrica">Barcamp Africa</a> a phrase was tossed about quite a bit referring to the trending of African expatriates returning back home to use their skills and money to better the continent.  This idea of a <em>reaspora</em> is directly associated to neo Pan-Africanism.  No one understands the region like Africans do and no one is inclined to help the region more than Africans.</p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important, though, to make a distinction.  Neo Pan-Africanism is a call for social responsibility by Africans to other Africans of the diaspora.  In most cases it has nothing to do with foreigners.  It&#8217;s not about kicking anyone out of the continent or persecuting people for what their ancestors did, it&#8217;s about people from the continent making sure they are most responsible and accountable for it&#8217;s successes and failures.  In other words, by definition it&#8217;s positive and progressive.  In fact, in a perfect world foreign nations would benefit even more from this idea as it would enable the world at large to participate more with the continent; allowing them to share Africa&#8217;s resources and enjoy it&#8217;s incredibly diverse cultures and traditions.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/425028882" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:4;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Niche vs Kitsch vs Reach";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/422973775/713";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/713#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:31:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:16:"Startupsbusiness";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=713";s:11:"description";s:345:"Being back in the Valley revealed several trends of the tech community when it comes to their motivations for social change initiatives.  The title of this post lays them all out from my perspective&#8230;\n\nNiche-driven\nCompanies that are trying to segment out a very vertical slice of the market or technology so as to differentiate their [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2569:"<p>Being back in the Valley revealed several trends of the tech community when it comes to their motivations for social change initiatives.  The title of this post lays them all out from my perspective&#8230;</p>\n<p><center><img src="http://www.fitbit.com/images/home/wear.png"></center></p>\n<p><strong>Niche-driven</strong><br />\nCompanies that are trying to segment out a very vertical slice of the market or technology so as to differentiate their brand. They might be the best at what they do, but they also may not be the biggest in the market.  Usually the market determines whether or not they remain niche. For example groups like <a href="http://www.fitbit.com/">Fitbit</a> (weight loss), <a href="http://www.ideo.com/">IDEO</a> (social impact through design) and <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/14/innovalight-rakes-in-5m-for-solar-cell-ink/">InnovaLight</a> (Clean energy) are successful start-ups targeting niche aspects of old problems.</p>\n<p><strong>Kitsch-driven</strong><br />\nCompanies that are eying social entrepreneurship or responsibility as a way to validate something (their service or product) among a certain group (&#8217;people who <em>care</em> about a particular cause&#8217;).  In other words, they want to appear to be socially responsible more than they probably want to actually be socially responsible.  <a href="http://ning.com">Ning</a> often bills itself as an empowering tool for non-profits and community groups.  That may be true, but that&#8217;s clearly not the focus of the company.  Rather their real focus is simplifying the process of creating small social networks&#8230;.for any group with almost any motive.</p>\n<p><strong>Reach-driven</strong><br />\nThese tech companies have identified a problem and are attempting to solve it by reaching the most people possible, to have the maximum impact as a solution for an identified problem. This means their efforts are often easily quantifiable (clear goal equals clear results).  I&#8217;d say that <a href="http://kiva.org">Kiva</a> (MFIs), <a href="http://laptop.org">OLPC</a> (low-cost computing) and <a href="http://frontlinesms.org">FrontlineSMS</a> (emergency messaging) are good examples from various groups that are fundamentally maximizing reach. </p>\n<p>Certainly many groups are a little bit of all three but of the groups I learned about this week at <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705">SoCap08</a>, they can all be put into one of these categories.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422973775" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/713/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/713";}s:7:"summary";s:345:"Being back in the Valley revealed several trends of the tech community when it comes to their motivations for social change initiatives.  The title of this post lays them all out from my perspective&#8230;\n\nNiche-driven\nCompanies that are trying to segment out a very vertical slice of the market or technology so as to differentiate their [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2569:"<p>Being back in the Valley revealed several trends of the tech community when it comes to their motivations for social change initiatives.  The title of this post lays them all out from my perspective&#8230;</p>\n<p><center><img src="http://www.fitbit.com/images/home/wear.png"></center></p>\n<p><strong>Niche-driven</strong><br />\nCompanies that are trying to segment out a very vertical slice of the market or technology so as to differentiate their brand. They might be the best at what they do, but they also may not be the biggest in the market.  Usually the market determines whether or not they remain niche. For example groups like <a href="http://www.fitbit.com/">Fitbit</a> (weight loss), <a href="http://www.ideo.com/">IDEO</a> (social impact through design) and <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/14/innovalight-rakes-in-5m-for-solar-cell-ink/">InnovaLight</a> (Clean energy) are successful start-ups targeting niche aspects of old problems.</p>\n<p><strong>Kitsch-driven</strong><br />\nCompanies that are eying social entrepreneurship or responsibility as a way to validate something (their service or product) among a certain group (&#8217;people who <em>care</em> about a particular cause&#8217;).  In other words, they want to appear to be socially responsible more than they probably want to actually be socially responsible.  <a href="http://ning.com">Ning</a> often bills itself as an empowering tool for non-profits and community groups.  That may be true, but that&#8217;s clearly not the focus of the company.  Rather their real focus is simplifying the process of creating small social networks&#8230;.for any group with almost any motive.</p>\n<p><strong>Reach-driven</strong><br />\nThese tech companies have identified a problem and are attempting to solve it by reaching the most people possible, to have the maximum impact as a solution for an identified problem. This means their efforts are often easily quantifiable (clear goal equals clear results).  I&#8217;d say that <a href="http://kiva.org">Kiva</a> (MFIs), <a href="http://laptop.org">OLPC</a> (low-cost computing) and <a href="http://frontlinesms.org">FrontlineSMS</a> (emergency messaging) are good examples from various groups that are fundamentally maximizing reach. </p>\n<p>Certainly many groups are a little bit of all three but of the groups I learned about this week at <a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705">SoCap08</a>, they can all be put into one of these categories.</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422973775" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:5;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:13:"SoCap08 Notes";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/422596549/720";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/720#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:08:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:18:"Conferencessocap08";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=720";s:11:"description";s:304:"Panels covered include &#8220;Pitching Your Social Enterprise&#8221;, &#8220;West African SME&#8217;s&#8221;, &#8220;New African Capital&#8221;, &#8220;Money and Meaning&#8221; and &#8220;Building a Business Plan&#8221;\nSoCap08 Notes\nView SlideShare document or Upload your own. 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(tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/socap08">socap08</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/social">social</a>)</div>\n</div>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422596549" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/720/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/720";}s:7:"summary";s:304:"Panels covered include &#8220;Pitching Your Social Enterprise&#8221;, &#8220;West African SME&#8217;s&#8221;, &#8220;New African Capital&#8221;, &#8220;Money and Meaning&#8221; and &#8220;Building a Business Plan&#8221;\nSoCap08 Notes\nView SlideShare document or Upload your own. 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(tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/socap08">socap08</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/social">social</a>)</div>\n</div>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422596549" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:6;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Kenyan IT Sector Braces for Slowdown";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/422479893/717";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/717#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:39:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:18:"Industry Newskenya";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=717";s:11:"description";s:366:"How is the world economic &#8217;slowdown&#8217; affecting Africa?  In Kenya it&#8217;s hitting the IT sector hard:\nKenyan Technology firms are bracing for a period of reduced spending on solutions as the global economic crisis continues to claim more casualties among financial firms, who are often the biggest spenders on IT.\nIn a report today Business Daily [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1030:"<p>How is the world economic &#8217;slowdown&#8217; affecting Africa?  In Kenya it&#8217;s hitting the IT sector hard:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Kenyan Technology firms are bracing for a period of reduced spending on solutions as the global economic crisis continues to claim more casualties among financial firms, who are often the biggest spenders on IT.</p>\n<p>In a report today Business Daily Africa said the sector which is often touted as the most efficient method to improve business processes and increase efficiency, companies around the world and in Kenya have been allocating increasing portions of their budgets to IT.</p>\n<p>But results released by a number of companies in the sector reveal the downturn is having an impact on IT spend. &#8220;The market developments of the past several weeks have been dramatic and worrying to many businesses.&#8221;</p></blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href="http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=1469">ITNA</a></p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422479893" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/717/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/717";}s:7:"summary";s:366:"How is the world economic &#8217;slowdown&#8217; affecting Africa?  In Kenya it&#8217;s hitting the IT sector hard:\nKenyan Technology firms are bracing for a period of reduced spending on solutions as the global economic crisis continues to claim more casualties among financial firms, who are often the biggest spenders on IT.\nIn a report today Business Daily [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1030:"<p>How is the world economic &#8217;slowdown&#8217; affecting Africa?  In Kenya it&#8217;s hitting the IT sector hard:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Kenyan Technology firms are bracing for a period of reduced spending on solutions as the global economic crisis continues to claim more casualties among financial firms, who are often the biggest spenders on IT.</p>\n<p>In a report today Business Daily Africa said the sector which is often touted as the most efficient method to improve business processes and increase efficiency, companies around the world and in Kenya have been allocating increasing portions of their budgets to IT.</p>\n<p>But results released by a number of companies in the sector reveal the downturn is having an impact on IT spend. &#8220;The market developments of the past several weeks have been dramatic and worrying to many businesses.&#8221;</p></blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href="http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=1469">ITNA</a></p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422479893" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:7;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:42:"SoCap08: Investing in Social Entrepreneurs";s:4:"link";s:56:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~3/422276539/705";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:40:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"Jon";}s:8:"category";s:31:"Conferencesbarcampafricasocap08";s:4:"guid";s:31:"http://appfrica.net/blog/?p=705";s:11:"description";s:287:"When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work.  There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area.  For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:6446:"<p><center><img src="http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/images/logo-sm.gif"></center></p>\n<p>When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work.  There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area.  For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box (Rose Shuman and Ken Banks) for the first time face to face at SoCap.  I met Lila from <a href="http://samasource.org/">Samasource</a> and Emykah from <a href="http://ted.com">TED</a> for the first time after having had conversations with them both via email.   One of the big highlights was finally meeting Nathaniel Whitmore of <a href="http://assetmap.org">Assetmap.org</a>.  I also met six people from six unrelated groups that were all headed to Uganda in the next three weeks!</p>\n<p>The fact of the matter Social Entrepreneurship is an incredibly small space with few influential people all sort of defining the conversation.  When you talk about investors that circle gets even smaller.</p>\n<p>Ironically Barcamp Africa and SoCap08 (Social Capital Markets 2008) happened only a few days apart and I ran into many of the same faces at both.  This was good.  The general feeling at BCA (which was one day) is that it could have used one more day while the general feeling at SoCap08 (three days) was that it could have used more &#8216;unconferencing&#8217; and less lectures from keynotes.  So a mash-up of the two event-styles would have been perfect.</p>\n<p>My observations of what people were interested in at SoCap from various conversations and eavesdropping:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are African tech ventures profitable?</li>\n<li>Why is there so much attention on Africa?</li>\n<li>What is China&#8217;s stance on Social Entrepreneurship?</li>\n<li>Legal loopholes of being a for-profit social enterprise.</li>\n<li>Raising money as a social enterprise.</li>\n<li>Social investment exit strategies.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>One very interesting conversation panel I attended about Diversity and Inclusion in Social Capital  literally had a woman (Caucasian) bluntly ask the following:  &#8220;Why are there so many white people here talking to other white people?&#8221;</p>\n<p>Her point was that Social Investors and Entrepreneurs run a real risk of making the same mistake a number of development organizations have made for years.  There&#8217;s the potential to unintentionally (or intentionally for that matter) exclude the people who&#8217;s problems you&#8217;re attempting to solve from working with &#8216;the problem solvers&#8217;.  When this happens there isn&#8217;t much distinction between social ventures and colonial movements of the past.  One of the ideas that came out of the following conversation was to make an effort next year to find social entrepreneurs from around the globe and sponsor their attendance next year.  Despite the question I felt SoCap08 was actually quite diverse with a number of interesting social entrepreneurs represented from Beirut to Brazil.</p>\n<p>Another interesting panel was Peter Kaminski&#8217;s &#8216;Social Media for Social Entrepreneurs&#8217; which had a lot of talk about how to avoid overwhelming non-early adopters with too much information.  Amy Benziger made some interesting points about aggregating an entire brand on the web versus filtering and delivering only relevant bits to the right people.  Someone else made the point to say a lot of groups don&#8217;t engage social media because it&#8217;s a never ending conversation that they don&#8217;t know how to &#8216;get out of&#8217;.  For those people and groups, that inability to control a conversation is intimidating.</p>\n<p>The most relevant panel to what I&#8217;m trying to do with Appfrica Labs was &#8216;New African Capital&#8217; which featured Modibo Camara, Samuel Alemayehu, and Jo-ann Pohl.   Jo-Ann talked about the adverse affects of ineffective social ventures, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a willing bodies that have a feel good factor but not enough being effective.&#8221; <sup>[<a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica/statuses/959720660">t</a>]</sup> She went on to frame a key difference in business thinking in the region, &#8220;Africa is community driven&#8230;you&#8217;re only as good as your network and your networks network.&#8221; <sup>[<a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica/statuses/959721663">t</a>]</sup> Samuel specifically works in the VC, angel investor, incubator and technology space and advocated that there needs to be more initiatives in Africa by African as well as foreign investors.  </p>\n<p>Like most conferences, the best&#8230;most valuable information often came from casual conversations with other attendees.  I met the founder of two technology incubators, one in Beirut and the other in Bangladesh who had particular insight in operating such ventures in non-traditional, high-risk emerging markets.  Rose Shuman did a remarkable job framing our project Question Box for people and found some potential partners.  She and I brainstormed on the idea of using a custom version of Afridex as a CRM for all the business cards we&#8217;ve collected.  We&#8217;ll hire one of the Appfrica Lab participants to do the data entry if they&#8217;re interested in doing it.  If anyone who attended SoCap would like to offer up their contacts I&#8217;ll be happy to give you access as well.  </p>\n<p>Lastly, I increased my client/partner network by 200%.  A number of groups are interested in having either me or Appfrica Labs pick up their excess overflow work in web application development.  To be frank, I&#8217;m boot-strapping a start-up company in Uganda and so all of this work is invaluable.  It&#8217;s directly impacting how effective I am on the ground and people are starting to stand that I&#8217;m asking for donations&#8230;.I&#8217;m raising seed capital one way or another (through investments or work).</p>\n<p>Also, I should mention that this, for me, was largely a lesson in how to present and how to sell my ideas more effectively.  When you&#8217;re sitting at a table with the deal-makers, people who command thousands (if not millions) of dollars, there&#8217;s an art to making them listen to you.  So if it&#8217;s an art, I&#8217;m still drawing stick figures but it was great to be sitting next to the Rembrandts!</p>\n\n<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Appfrica/~4/422276539" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705/feed";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:37:"http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/705";}s:7:"summary";s:287:"When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work.  There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area.  For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:6446:"<p><center><img src="http://socialcapitalmarkets.net/images/logo-sm.gif"></center></p>\n<p>When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work.  There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area.  For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box (Rose Shuman and Ken Banks) for the first time face to face at SoCap.  I met Lila from <a href="http://samasource.org/">Samasource</a> and Emykah from <a href="http://ted.com">TED</a> for the first time after having had conversations with them both via email.   One of the big highlights was finally meeting Nathaniel Whitmore of <a href="http://assetmap.org">Assetmap.org</a>.  I also met six people from six unrelated groups that were all headed to Uganda in the next three weeks!</p>\n<p>The fact of the matter Social Entrepreneurship is an incredibly small space with few influential people all sort of defining the conversation.  When you talk about investors that circle gets even smaller.</p>\n<p>Ironically Barcamp Africa and SoCap08 (Social Capital Markets 2008) happened only a few days apart and I ran into many of the same faces at both.  This was good.  The general feeling at BCA (which was one day) is that it could have used one more day while the general feeling at SoCap08 (three days) was that it could have used more &#8216;unconferencing&#8217; and less lectures from keynotes.  So a mash-up of the two event-styles would have been perfect.</p>\n<p>My observations of what people were interested in at SoCap from various conversations and eavesdropping:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are African tech ventures profitable?</li>\n<li>Why is there so much attention on Africa?</li>\n<li>What is China&#8217;s stance on Social Entrepreneurship?</li>\n<li>Legal loopholes of being a for-profit social enterprise.</li>\n<li>Raising money as a social enterprise.</li>\n<li>Social investment exit strategies.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>One very interesting conversation panel I attended about Diversity and Inclusion in Social Capital  literally had a woman (Caucasian) bluntly ask the following:  &#8220;Why are there so many white people here talking to other white people?&#8221;</p>\n<p>Her point was that Social Investors and Entrepreneurs run a real risk of making the same mistake a number of development organizations have made for years.  There&#8217;s the potential to unintentionally (or intentionally for that matter) exclude the people who&#8217;s problems you&#8217;re attempting to solve from working with &#8216;the problem solvers&#8217;.  When this happens there isn&#8217;t much distinction between social ventures and colonial movements of the past.  One of the ideas that came out of the following conversation was to make an effort next year to find social entrepreneurs from around the globe and sponsor their attendance next year.  Despite the question I felt SoCap08 was actually quite diverse with a number of interesting social entrepreneurs represented from Beirut to Brazil.</p>\n<p>Another interesting panel was Peter Kaminski&#8217;s &#8216;Social Media for Social Entrepreneurs&#8217; which had a lot of talk about how to avoid overwhelming non-early adopters with too much information.  Amy Benziger made some interesting points about aggregating an entire brand on the web versus filtering and delivering only relevant bits to the right people.  Someone else made the point to say a lot of groups don&#8217;t engage social media because it&#8217;s a never ending conversation that they don&#8217;t know how to &#8216;get out of&#8217;.  For those people and groups, that inability to control a conversation is intimidating.</p>\n<p>The most relevant panel to what I&#8217;m trying to do with Appfrica Labs was &#8216;New African Capital&#8217; which featured Modibo Camara, Samuel Alemayehu, and Jo-ann Pohl.   Jo-Ann talked about the adverse affects of ineffective social ventures, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a willing bodies that have a feel good factor but not enough being effective.&#8221; <sup>[<a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica/statuses/959720660">t</a>]</sup> She went on to frame a key difference in business thinking in the region, &#8220;Africa is community driven&#8230;you&#8217;re only as good as your network and your networks network.&#8221; <sup>[<a href="http://twitter.com/appfrica/statuses/959721663">t</a>]</sup> Samuel specifically works in the VC, angel investor, incubator and technology space and advocated that there needs to be more initiatives in Africa by African as well as foreign investors.  </p>\n<p>Like most conferences, the best&#8230;most valuable information often came from casual conversations with other attendees.  I met the founder of two technology incubators, one in Beirut and the other in Bangladesh who had particular insight in operating such ventures in non-traditional, high-risk emerging markets.  Rose Shuman did a remarkable job framing our project Question Box for people and found some potential partners.  She and I brainstormed on the idea of using a custom version of Afridex as a CRM for all the business cards we&#8217;ve collected.  We&#8217;ll hire one of the Appfrica Lab participants to do the data entry if they&#8217;re interested in doing it.  If anyone who attended SoCap would like to offer up their contacts I&#8217;ll be happy to give you access as well.  </p>\n<p>Lastly, I increased my client/partner network by 200%.  A number of groups are interested in having either me or Appfrica Labs pick up their excess overflow work in web application development.  To be frank, I&#8217;m boot-strapping a start-up company in Uganda and so all of this work is invaluable.  It&#8217;s directly impacting how effective I am on the ground and people are starting to stand that I&#8217;m asking for donations&#8230;.I&#8217;m raising seed capital one way or another (through investments or work).</p>\n<p>Also, I should mention that this, for me, was largely a lesson in how to present and how to sell my ideas more effectively.  When you&#8217;re sitting at a table with the deal-makers, people who command thousands (if not millions) of dollars, there&#8217;s an art to making them listen to you.  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Sur le même principe que plusieurs autres concours dans le monde, la compétition en Afrique de l''Est a été la première de son genre à se dérouler sur le continent africain. Elle a permis aux étudiants en informatique et nouvelles technologies d''Afrique de l''Est d''utiliser leurs connaissances et leur créativité pour développer des gadgets avec du contenu, des flux, des options, des apparences et des langues qui reflètent les besoins des internautes d''aujourd''hui et de demain - et de récompenser les étudiants qui combinent une créativité hors du commun avec des compétences techniques exceptionnelles par des prix.<br /><br />Pendant les six mois de compétition, tous les étudiants participants ont reçus de l''aide via un contact par email dédié ainsi que des emails mensuels les guidant pas après pas vers la création d''un gadget. Malgré <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/teaching-igoogle-at-east-african.html">les difficultés techniques</a> que nous avons expérimentées, les étudiants ont continué de travailler durement et ont soumis en tout 41 gadgets fonctionnant parfaitement. Tous ceux qui ont soumis un gadget ont donné beaucoup de temps, d''efforts, de créativité et ont pris soin de développer d''exceptionnelles applications web. Nous sommes certains que la haute qualité des gadgets et leur pertinence pour les populations locales ainsi que les utilisateurs internationaux vont attirer a un nombre élevé d''utilisateurs non seulement en Afrique mais aussi partout dans le monde.<br /><br />Notre équipe gadget d''Afrique de l''Est a été très impressionnée par la qualité et le niveau de créativité des gadgets soumis, ce qui n''a pas rendu facile pour notre panel de sélectionner les gagnants. Cependant, uniquement six gadgets pouvaient remporter l''un de nos prix, et les juges ont choisi les gadgets suivants :<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Premier Prix</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113244682470845972337/igisoro_gadget.xml&amp;bpig=1">Jeu Igisoro</a> de Antoine Nzeyimana (KIST, Rwanda)<br /></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Meilleure Interface Utilisateur </span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.ultravineafrica.com/_chartyImages/chartywizardea.xml&amp;bpig=1">Charty Wizard</a> de Murithi Borona (Université de Nairobi, Kenya) <br /></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Meilleur Contenu Local </span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/115345472652847891418/african-proverb.xml&amp;bpig=1">Proverbes Africains</a> de Peter Munene Karunyu (Université Moi, Kenya)<br /></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Meilleur Contenu Educatif </span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107654619660605951333/deafbraille.xml&amp;bpig=1">Alphabet Braille</a> de Jean Claude Nzayisenga (Université Nationale du Rwanda, Rwanda)<br /></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Meilleur Potentiel</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/117564701391687188686/sliding_puzzle.xml&amp;bpig=1">Puzzle Glissant</a> de Miano Njoka (JKUAT, Kenya)<br /></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Le Plus Sophistiqué Techniquement</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113266389648488408663/numbergame.xml&amp;bpig=1">Add Mad</a> de Hussein Lightwalla (Université Strathmore, Kenya) <br /></li></ul><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/eagadgetcompetition/">Vous trouverez ici la liste complète des gagnants</a> et les liens vers leurs gadgets. Qu''en est-il des prix? Antoine remporte une bourse de US<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">$600</span>, et les 5 suivants reçoivent une bourse de US<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">$350</span>.<br /><br />Merci à tous les participants pour leur travail acharné. Nous avons hâte de voir ce que les étudiants nous réservent pour la prochaine édition !<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Maria Kubran, University Programs Manager</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/390669352" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:111:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/390669352/congratulations-to-gadget-competition.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/7337018403021491865/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7337018403021491865?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7337018403021491865?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:84:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/congratulations-to-gadget-competition.html";}}i:2;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-7095414123960581970";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-09-11T18:15:00.001+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-09-11T19:11:32.317+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-09-11T19:11:32.317+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:19:"Goog - al - Jazaer!";s:12:"atom_content";s:3247:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french15">En Français</a><br /><br />Today we are very pleased to release a localized <a href="http://www.google.dz/">google.dz</a> for Algeria, making Google the first international search engine with a .dz domain. (And google.com.dz also functions, redirecting to google.dz.)<br /><br />Some alert bloggers spotted our DNS changes earlier in the month, but a couple of weeks ago we completed the launch with a localized homepage with French as the default language and Arabic as the linked alternative. People who prefer google.com in English, of course, can still find that linked from the new homepage.<br /><br />In launching google.dz, we had to comply with local rules governing top level domains in Algeria. Working with our friends at the registrar, and coordinating between Algiers, Dublin and Zürich, we were able to come up with a solution that worked for everyone. We were really pleased about this, as Algeria has one of the fastest-growing internet populations in the world, and this launch will really enable us to offer the best Google service to this group. A distributed team in Zürich, London and Mountain View are working to support the growth in Algeria and the rest of North Africa and the Middle East; watch out for more launches to come!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Steve Crossan, Senior Product Manager, Google</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french15"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Goog - al - Jazaer!</span><br /><br />Nous sommes très heureux de lancer aujourd''hui <a href="http://www.google.dz/">google.dz</a>, une version localisée pour l''Algérie, faisant ainsi de Google le premier moteur de recherche international ayant un domaine en .dz (google.com.dz fonctionne également, avec une redirection vers google.dz).<br /><br />Certains blogueurs alertes auront déjà repéré nos changements de DNS il y a environ un mois, mais nous avons finalisé le lancement il y a une quinzaine de jours, avec une page d''accueil en français par défaut, avec l''arabe comme alternative. Les utilisateurs qui préfèrent google.com en anglais peuvent bien entendu trouver le lien à partir de la nouvelle page d''accueil.<br /><br />En lançant google.dz, nous avons eu à nous conformer aux règles régissant les domaines de premier niveau en Algérie. En travaillant avec l''autorité gérant les noms de domaines, et coordonnant entre Alger, Dublin et Zürich, nous avons été en mesure de trouver une solution qui fonctionne pour tout le monde. Nous en sommes très heureux car l''Algérie a une des plus fortes croissances mondiales en terme de population connectée à Internet, et ce lancement va vraiment nous permettre d''offrir le meilleur service Google à ces utilisateurs. Une équipe répartie entre Zürich, Londres et Mountain View travaille pour soutenir la croissance en Algérie, dans le reste de l''Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient ; restez attentifs aux autres lancements à venir !<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Steve Crossan, Senior Product Manager, Google<br /></span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/389847180" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/389847180/goog-al-jazaer.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/7095414123960581970/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7095414123960581970?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7095414123960581970?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:61:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/goog-al-jazaer.html";}}i:3;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1036680446816193349";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-09-10T17:02:00.001+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-09-10T18:01:37.238+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-09-10T18:01:37.238+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:30:"Google invests in O3b Networks";s:12:"atom_content";s:4907:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french14">En Français</a><br /><br />An important aspect of Google''s mission is to make information universally accessible.  Unfortunately, in many less developed areas of the world, particularly countries in Africa, access to the Internet is scarce and expensive. Today, we are pleased to let you know about one way we''re helping to address this problem: by investing in <a href="http://www.o3bnetworks.com/">O3b Networks</a>. O3b''s mission is to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to the "other 3 billion" people in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.<br /><br />Most of today''s developed countries are linked by thousands of kilometers of submarine fiber optic cables to carry core Internet traffic. This is a very cost-effective solution, once the fiber is in place; but in many developing and remote areas, fiber isn''t available due to economic and sometimes political roadblocks. Though existing geo-synchronous satellites are able to reach theses areas, they provide slow Internet connectivity because of their distance from the Earth - and they''re expensive and often fully subscribed. O3b plans to deliver fiber-like Internet backhaul service using a constellation of medium-orbit satellites. This means data can be quickly transmitted to and from even the most remote locations such as inland Africa or small Pacific islands.<br /><br />The O3b satellite constellation will provide high-speed, low-latency backhaul services at speeds reaching into the gigabits per second. The satellites will orbit the earth at about one-third the altitude of a geo-synchronous satellite, which means it takes less time for data to travel up and back.  This low latency translates into better voice connections as well as a snappier web experience.<br /><br />O3b is currently planning to begin service beginning in late 2010. We are very excited about the prospects for O3b and its shared mission of bringing access to those parts of the world that need it most.<br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Larry Alder, Product Manager</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french14"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Google investit dans O3b Networks</span><br /><br />Un aspect important de la mission de  Google consiste à rendre l''information accessible partout dans le monde. Malheureusement, l''accès à Internet est difficile et onéreux dans de nombreux endroits moins développés de la planète, en particulier dans certains pays d''Afrique. Aujourd''hui, nous avons le plaisir d''annoncer que notre investissement dans <a href="http://www.o3bnetworks.com/">O3b Networks</a> répond en partie à ce problème. La mission d''O3b consiste à fournir une connexion Internet haut débit et bon marché aux "3 autres milliards" d''individus des marchés émergents en Asie, en Afrique, en Amérique du Sud et au Moyen-Orient.<br /><br />La plupart des pays développés sont aujourd''hui connectés via des milliers de kilomètres de fibres optiques dans des câbles sous-marins qui transmettent l''essentiel du trafic Internet. Cela permet une solution très rentable une fois que la fibre est installée. Cependant, la fibre n''est pas encore disponible dans de nombreux pays en voie de développement et dans les endroits isolés, à cause de difficultés économiques et parfois à cause d''obstacles politiques. Bien que des satellites géo-stationnaires soient actuellement capables d''atteindre ces zones, ils fournissent une connexion Internet lente du fait de leur distance à la Terre ; ils sont également onéreux et souvent complètement souscrits. O3b prévoit de livrer un service Internet équivalent à la fibre optique par l''utilisation d''une constellation de satellites en orbite moyenne. Cela signifique que les données peuvent être transmises rapidement, y compris dans les zones les plus reculées comme l''intérieur de l''Afrique ou les petites îles du Pacifique.<br /><br />La constellation satellitaire d''O3b fournira des services haut débit à faible temps de latence avec des vitesses atteignants les gigabits par seconde. Les satellites tourneront autour de la Terre à environ un tiers de l''altitude des satellites géo-stationnaires, ce qui implique que les données prendront moins de temps à circuler. Ce faible temps de latence se traduit par de meilleures connexions voix ainsi qu''une expérience web rapide.<br /><br />O3b prévoit actuellement de démarrer ses services à partir de la fin 2010. Nous sommes très enthousiastes sur l''avenir d''O3b et sur sa mission partagée d''apporter un accès aux endroits de la planète qui en ont le plus besoin.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Larry Alder, Product Manager</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/388803473" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/388803473/google-invests-in-o3b-networks.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/1036680446816193349/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1036680446816193349?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1036680446816193349?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:77:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-invests-in-o3b-networks.html";}}i:4;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-355013034362686291";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-08-22T09:45:00.003+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-22T10:45:46.110+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-22T10:45:46.110+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:36:"Looking for a few good men and women";s:12:"atom_content";s:3766:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french13">En Français</a><br /><br />You might have heard about our infrastructure work in Africa: For example, how we''re looking to improve the user experience by bringing content closer to the edge of the network. Or how we''re generating and finding ways to catalyze the development of local content through Google Maps (starting with <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-googles-official-blog-for.html">Kenya</a>). These efforts would not even be possible if we didn''t have talented staff on the ground making it happen. Thanks to the exceptional leadership of Joe Mucheru, our office lead for East Africa, we have made tremendous strides and continue to expand the scope of our operations.<br /><br />Since our strength is in our people, we''re looking for the right people to truly make a difference. Are you a senior manager who has the vision, strategy and execution to drive a market as large as Nigeria? Are you a technical expert who understands web standards as well as network infrastructure? Or perhaps you''ve got an excellent background and intense interest in geo-informatics.<br /><br />Well, here''s your chance. We need your brilliance, heart and desire to make Google a success in Africa. To find out more about the roles, responsibilities and requirements, you can read about our open positions on the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&amp;jobslc=africa">Africa jobs posting site</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jack Sheu, Business Operations &amp; Strategy</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french13"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">A la recherche d''hommes et de femmes de qualité</span><br /><br />Vous avez peut-être déjà entendu parler de nos initiatives en matière d''infrastructures en Afrique: par exemple, la manière par laquelle nous nous efforçons d''améliorer l''expérience utilisateur en rapprochant le contenu des extrémités du réseau. Ou bien encore la façon par laquelle nous générons et trouvons des moyens d''accélérer le développement de contenu localisé à travers Google Maps (en commençant par le <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-googles-official-blog-for.html">Kenya</a>).<br /><br />Ces efforts ne seraient pas possibles si nous n''avions pas un personnel qualifié sur place pour concrétiser tout cela. Sous la conduite exceptionnelle de Joe Mucheru, notre responsable pour l''Afrique de l''Est, nous avons fait de grandes avancées et continuons à étendre l''envergure de nos opérations.<br /><br />Puisque notre force réside dans nos collaborateurs, nous recherchons les bonnes personnes pour faire vraiment la différence. Êtes-vous un manager expérimenté avec une vision, une stratégie et une capacité d''exécution pour développer un marché aussi important que le Nigéria? Êtes-vous un expert technique qui comprend les standards du web ainsi que les éléments d''infrastructure réseau ? Ou peut-être avez-vous un excellent profil et une passion pour la géo-informatique?<br /><br />Voilà des opportunités à saisir: nous avons besoin de votre intelligence, votre passion et votre désir de faire réussir Google en Afrique. Pour en savoir plus au sujet des fonctions, des responsabilités et des profils requis, vous pouvez vous renseigner sur nos postes ouverts sur le <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&amp;jobslc=africa">site d''annonces d''emplois pour l''Afrique</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Jack Sheu, Business Operations &amp; Strategy</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/371709624" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:108:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/371709624/looking-for-few-good-men-and-women.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:75:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/355013034362686291/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/355013034362686291?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/355013034362686291?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:81:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/looking-for-few-good-men-and-women.html";}}i:5;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1768037616409848420";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-08-21T22:16:00.001+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-21T23:17:40.406+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-21T23:17:40.406+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:43:"New Google homepage for Tanzania in Swahili";s:12:"atom_content";s:4439:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french12">En Français</a><br /><br />Today we launched our search engine for Tanzania at <a href="http://www.google.co.tz/">www.google.co.tz/</a>, marking our 25th localized home page in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first time we''ve launched a country home page with an African language - Swahili in this case - as the default language.<br /><br />The experience behind the Swahili translation has been quite an interesting one. We are committed to delivering our products to all of the world''s internet users in their local language. However, getting to that grand objective will take time. We have a fairly substantial operation for translating our products into many languages, the number of which is growing rapidly. As we continue to support more languages, we also recognize the desire of people to search in their native tongue, even if it is one for which we have not yet begun an official translation. For just this purpose, we have been offering the "<a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=transconsole&amp;passive=true&amp;nui=1&amp;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole&amp;followup=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole">Google in your language</a>" program for quite a while.<br /><br />Many African languages have already been translated using this program, and you may choose to set your Google home page to any of <a href="http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en">these languages</a>. The process of having a volunteer translate a homepage that will serve an entire country into the default language requires a high level of confidence in the quality and completeness of the translation. With Swahili, we believe our volunteers have achieved that.<br /><br />If you are interested in seeing Google launch in your own language, we encourage you to consider contributing to this effort.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager, Sub Saharan Africa<br /></span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french12"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nouvelle page d''accueil Google pour la Tanzanie en swahili</span><br /><br />Nous avons lancé aujourd''hui notre moteur de recherche pour la Tanzanie à l''adresse <a href="http://www.google.co.tz/">www.google.co.tz</a>, ce qui marque ainsi notre 25ème page d''accueil localisée en Afrique sub-saharienne. C''est la première fois que nous lançons une page d''accueil pour un pays dans une langue africaine - le swahili en l''occurence - en tant que langue par défaut.<br /><br />L''expérience acquise lors de la traduction en swahili fut particulièrement intéressante. Nous sommes engagés dans la création de produits adaptés dans les langues locales de tous les utilisateurs d''Internet de la planète. Cependant, atteindre cet objectif ambitieux prendra du temps. Nous mettons des moyens assez importants pour traduire nos produits dans de nombreuses langues, dont le nombre grandit rapidement. Tandis que nous continuons à ajouter de nouvelles langues, nous comprenons le souhait des utilisateurs d''effectuer des recherches dans leur langue maternelle, même si nous n''avons pas encore commencé une traduction officielle dans cette langue. A cet effet, nous avons proposé le programme "<a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=transconsole&amp;passive=true&amp;nui=1&amp;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole&amp;followup=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole">Google dans votre langue</a>" depuis un certain temps.<br /><br />De nombreuses langues africaines ont déjà été traduites grâce à ce programme, et vous pouvez choisir de paramétrer votre page d''accueil Google dans <a href="http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en">une de ces langues</a>. Le processus, qui consiste à ce qu''un bénévole traduise une page d''accueil dans une langue locale utile à tout un pays, exige un niveau élevé de confiance dans la qualité et la totalité de la traduction. Avec la traduction en swahili, nous pensons que nos bénévoles ont atteint ce niveau.<br /><br />Si vous êtes intéressé par le lancement de Google dans votre langue, nous vous encourageons à participer à cet effort.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Divon Lan, Product Manager, Afrique sub-saharienne</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/371281822" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:109:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/371281822/new-google-homepage-for-tanzania-in.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/1768037616409848420/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1768037616409848420?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1768037616409848420?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:82:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-google-homepage-for-tanzania-in.html";}}i:6;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-5074880464760544378";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-08-14T15:51:00.000+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-14T16:51:29.015+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-14T16:51:29.015+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:23:"A conversation in Kisii";s:12:"atom_content";s:10489:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french11">En Français</a><br /><br />A recent field visit took me to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisii_town">Kisii</a>, a Kenyan town close to the shores of Lake Victoria. The population has swelled to 100,000 from approximately 70,000 largely because of refugees fleeing the post-election violence in other parts of Kenya. Local authorities expect to see that population double over the next ten years. Providing public services, especially water and sanitation, to this growing population is an enormous challenge.<br /><br />In 2000, the international community made a commitment to the <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/">UN Millennium Development Goals</a> to help communities access basic public services, like health, education, water and sanitation. One of the key milestones of Goal 7 is to "halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015." As of 2004, the <a href="http://www.mdgmonitor.org/map.cfm?goal=6&indicator=0&cd=">MDG Monitor</a> shows that of the nations bordering Lake Victoria- Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya - only 60% of the population have access to improved drinking water sources.<br /><br />While great progress is being made in Kisii, local officials say far less than 60% of their population has adequate service, despite what the official statistics say. New water pipes have been donated to the local water provider. This has doubled the capacity, but it only reaches half of Kisii''s estimated population (50,000). Water kiosks stand proudly along the main road. And yet, the taps run dry. The connections to the main line are not even functional. Young women still trudge the kilometers to the river, at risk to their own security, to collect water. Bright blue toilet stalls line the periphery of a girls school. While the school has seen an increase in attendance since the installation of these toilets, they continue to be plagued by their inability to deal with the sanitation requirements of their students. As we depart, the headmistress of the school pleads with us to help with the sanitation problem.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SKRFeMEAtcI/AAAAAAAAAA8/FG_SZ3sMHu0/s1600-h/Kisii.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SKRFeMEAtcI/AAAAAAAAAA8/FG_SZ3sMHu0/s320/Kisii.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234385051847800258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Some more recent data gathered from towns surrounding Lake Victoria in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, tell us a very different story than information from the MDG Monitor. This story is closer to the facts reported to us on the ground: while basic infrastructure (water pipes, points, toilets) may exist, those facilities are rarely functional, affordable or accessible, indicating to us that access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services is substantially lower than many think. Presented with this information at a recent UN-Habitat meeting in Nairobi, international donors and development agencies were astonished. They asked, "how come we didn''t know about this earlier?"<br /><br />And yet, unsurprisingly, the people of Kisii have long known that they don''t have appropriate water and sanitation services. They may not have even heard of the MDG''s. They are likely unaware of the conversations that transpire amongst donors and development agencies and help shape where resources are allocated. They are having their own conversations about what they need. But who can they tell? Who hears their voices?<br /><br />Our challenge going forward is to help amplify these voices and contribute to efforts to inform these local discussions.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Meryl Stone, Associate, Google.org</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Originally posted on </span><a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://blog.google.org/">google.org blog</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, Friday June 6th, 2008</span>  <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br />"Google.org is the result of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin''s vision to commit significant resources, including 1% of Google''s equity and profits in some form, as well employee time, to address some of the world''s most urgent problems. It is a hybrid philanthropy that both supports its partners'' work with targeted grants and also invests in for-profit endeavors, such as efforts by companies to develop breakthrough renewable energy technologies. To learn more, visit the <a href="http://www.google.org/">official website</a>."<br /><br /></span>====<br /><br /><a name="french11"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Une conversation à Kisii</span><br /><br />Une récente visite sur le terrain m''a conduite à <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisii_town">Kisii</a>, une ville du Kenya située sur les rives du lac Victoria. La population y est passée de 70 000 à 100 000 personnes environ, essentiellement du fait de l''exil de réfugiés fuyant les violences post-électorales dans d''autres régions du Kenya. Les autorités locales envisagent un doublement de la population dans les dix prochaines années. Assurer les services publics, notamment la gestion de l''eau et un système sanitaire, constitue un défi majeur face à cette population grandissante.<br /><br />En l''an 2000, la communauté internationale s''est engagée à travers <a href="http://www.mdgmonitor.org/map.cfm?goal=6&amp;indicator=0&amp;cd=">les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement de l''ONU</a> à aider les peuples à avoir accès aux services publics de base, tels l''accès à un système de soins, à l''éducation, à l''eau et à un système sanitaire. Une des cibles de l''objectif numéro 7 est de "réduire de moitié, d''ici à 2015, le pourcentage de la population qui n''a pas accès de façon durable à un approvisionnement en eau potable ni à un assainissement rudimentaire". Le <a href="http://www.mdgmonitor.org/map.cfm?goal=6&amp;indicator=0&amp;cd=">MDG Monitor</a> montre les pays situés autour du lac Victoria : en 2004, seulement 60% des populations de l''Ouganda, de la Tanzanie et du Kenya avaient accès à des sources améliorées d''eau potable.<br /><br />Malgré des progrès importants en cours de réalisation à Kisii, les autorités locales affirment que bien moins de 60% de la population reçoit un service adéquat, et ce en dépit des statistiques officielles. De nouvelles conduites d''eau ont été données au fournisseur d''eau local. Cela a permis de doubler les capacités, mais elles n''atteignent que la moitié de la population estimée à Kisii(soit 50 000 personnes). Des distributeurs d''eau se tiennent fièrement le long de la rue principale. Et pourtant, les robinets coulent à sec. Les connexions à la canalisation principale ne sont même pas opérationnelles. De jeunes femmes marchent encore péniblement plusieurs kilomètres jusqu''à la rivière, prenant des risques pour leur propre sécurité, pour chercher de l''eau. Des latrines bleu vif sont alignées en bordure d''une école pour filles. Malgré l''augmentation de la fréquentation de l''école depuis l''installation de ces toilettes, celles-ci restent incapables de satisfaire les exigences sanitaires des élèves. Alors que nous partons, la directrice de l''école nous supplie de les aider à résoudre le problème sanitaire.<br /><br />Des données plus récentes collectées dans les villes d''Ouganda, de Tanzanie et du Kenya autour du lac Victoria nous content une histoire bien différente des statistiques du MDG Monitor. Cette histoire est plus proche des faits qui nous sont rapportées sur le terrain : tandis que les infrastructures de base (canalisations d''eau, distributeurs, toilettes) peuvent exister, ces équipements sont rarement opérationnels, abordables ou accessibles, ce qui nous indique que les chiffres d''accès à l''eau potable et aux services sanitaires de base sont bien inférieurs à ce que l''on pourrait penser. Confrontés à cette information lors d''une réunion récente de ONU-Habitat à Nairobi, les donateurs internationaux et les agences de développement furent étonnés. Ils demandèrent : "comment se fait-il que nous ne soyons pas informés de cela plus tôt?"<br /><br />Et pourtant, de façon surprenante, la population de Kisii sait depuis longtemps qu''elle n''a pas un système sanitaire et un accès à l''eau adéquats. Elle n''a peut-être même pas entendu parler des objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement. Elle n''est probablement pas au courant des conversations qui se déroulent entre les donateurs internationaux et les agences de développement et qui contribuent à décider de l''endroit où sont alloués les aides. Elle mène ses propres conversations sur ce dont elle a besoin. Mais à qui peut-elle en parler? Qui entend leurs voix?<br /><br />Notre défi à l''avenir est d''aider à amplifier ces voix et contribuer aux efforts d''information sur ces considérations locales.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Post</span>é<span class="byline-author"> par Meryl Stone, Associate, Google.org</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Initialement posté sur </span><a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://blog.google.org/">le blog google.org</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, vendredi 6 juin 2008</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Google.org est le fruit de la vision des fondateurs de Google, Larry Page et Sergey Brin, d''engager des moyens significatifs, notamment 1% du capital et des bénéfices de Google sous une certaine forme, ainsi que du temps des salariés, pour répondre à quelques uns des problèmes les plus urgents de la planète. C''est une philanthropie hybride qui soutient à la fois le travail de nos partenaires avec des aides spécifiques et investit également dans des initiatives commerciales, comme des efforts par les sociétés pour développer des technologies innovantes dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables. Pour en savoir plus, visitez </span><a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.google.org/">le site officiel</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span><br /></ahref="http:><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/364847060" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:95:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/364847060/conversation-in-kisii.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/5074880464760544378/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5074880464760544378?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5074880464760544378?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:68:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/conversation-in-kisii.html";}}i:7;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-2740693691361289522";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-08-06T18:15:00.002+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-06T20:45:36.436+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-06T20:45:36.436+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:43:"Google News launches in 9 African countries";s:12:"atom_content";s:8914:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french10">En Français</a><br /><br />We are delighted to announce that we have just launched Google News in English for Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and Botswana allowing users to search and view news in localized editions, and helping dozens of African news sites make their stories available to users worldwide. From the East Africa Standard in Kenya to Zimbabwe Independent, Google News users in Africa and elsewhere can now read an African perspective on any news story. We are particularly excited about today''s launch, since this is our first localized product for Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and Botswana, beyond our home page.<br /><br />Google News has come a long way since we launched in 2002. With over 10000 sources in 20 languages, Google makes the news more accessible and more interesting – encouraging people to read more, and benefiting the news industry as a whole. We''re excited to now be able to provide more news, with more African sources, to more readers in Africa and around the world.<br /><br />To view the new English language editions please visit:<br /><br />news.google.com.ng for Nigeria<br />news.google.co.ke for Kenya<br />news.google.com.et for Ethiopia<br />news.google.co.zw for Zimbabwe<br />news.google.com.na for Namibia<br />news.google.com.gh for Ghana<br />news.google.co.ug for Uganda<br />news.google.co.bw for Botswana<br />news.google.co.tz for Tanzania (select Tanzania from the pull-down menu)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I am a publisher of a news site. Tell me more:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Why is Google News good for me?<br /><br /></span>Google News helps online news publishers take advantage of the huge opportunities the Internet offers. With more than one billion people on the Internet looking for information, it is easy to see why Google News brings real benefits to both publishers and users. Google News makes it easier for users to discover your site, it drives additional traffic to your site, and also provides new opportunities for online revenue. The great paradox of the digital world is that as more useful information comes online, it will become increasingly hard for people to find what they want. This is why we View Google News as an important partnership between Google and publishers worldwide.<br /><br />Google is a technology company. Our focus isn’t to create content; rather, it is to get users to the news they are looking for. We don’t display the stories in their entirety. We simply show the headlines, a line or two of text, and links to the site – just enough information to make the user want to read the full story - and click through to your website.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Why is my news website not showing up on Google News?<br /><br /></span>We may not know about your news site, or you may not meet our inclusion criteria . You can request inclusion <a href="http://www.google.co.tz/support/news_pub/">here</a>.<br /><br />Your site may not meet our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/topic.py?topic=11665">technical standards</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How can I make my news site more searchable?<br /><br /></span>You can also use tools such as Robot.txt and Sitemaps to make your site more searchable. The technical requirements for inclusion in Google News are the same as inclusion in Google’s general index. You can find more information about this at our <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/">Webmaster central page</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don''t want users to find my site when searching Google. How can I tell Google to stop showing my news site?<br /><br /></span>Websites may use a widely accepted Internet standard called robots.txt to “tell” search engines like Google whether or not they are allowed to crawl their site.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager, Sub Saharan Africa</span><span id="z8_80"  style="font-size:85%;"></span><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french10"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Actualités lancé dans 9 pays en Afrique</span><br /><br />Nous sommes ravis d''annoncer le lancement de Google Actualités au Nigéria, au Kenya, en Ethiopie, en Tanzanie, au Zimbabwe, en Namibie, au Ghana, en Ouganda et au Botswana, rendant ainsi des dizaines de sites d’actualités d’Afrique accessibles à nos utilisateurs à travers le monde. De l''East Africa Standard au Kenya au Zimbabwe Independent, les utilisateurs anglophones de Google Actualités en Afrique et d''ailleurs peuvent désormais obtenir une perspective africaine de l’actualité. Pour le Nigéria, l’Ethiopie, le Zimbabwe, la Namibie, le Ghana, l''Ouganda et le Botswana, il s’agit du premier service localisé et adapté pour ces pays après la page d''accueil de Google.<br /><br />Google Actualités a parcouru beaucoup de chemin depuis son lancement en 2002. Avec plus 10 000 sources en 20 langues, Google rend l’actualité plus accessible et plus intéressante – encourageant les gens à lire d’avantage, au bénéfice de la presse dans son ensemble. Nous sommes très heureux de pouvoir désormais fournir davantage d’actualités, avec plus de sources en provenance d’Afrique, à toujours plus de lecteurs à travers le monde.<br /><br />Pour voir ces nouvelles éditions en anglais, veuillez consulter:<br /><br />news.google.com.ng pour le Nigéria<br />news.google.co.ke pour le Kenya<br />news.google.com.et pour l''Ethiopie<br />news.google.co.zw pour le Zimbabwe<br />news.google.com.na pour la Namibie<br />news.google.com.gh pour le Ghana<br />news.google.co.ug pour l''Ouganda<br />news.google.co.bw pour le Botswana<br />news.google.co.tz pour la Tanzanie (selectionnez Tanzanie dans le menu déroulant)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Plus d''informations pour les éditeurs d''actualités en ligne :</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">En quoi Google Actualités est-il utile pour mon site?</span><br /><br />Google Actualités aide les éditeurs de presse à tirer profit des opportunités exceptionnelles offertes par Internet. Avec plus d’un milliard d’internautes à la recherche d’informations sur le Web, il n’est pas difficile de comprendre les avantages réels qu’apporte Google Actualités aux éditeurs comme aux utilisateurs. Google News permet aux utilisateurs de découvrir votre site, augmente le trafic vers votre site et offre de nouvelles opportunités de revenus en ligne. Le grand paradoxe de l''ère digitale est que plus il y a d''informations en ligne, plus il devient difficile de trouver l''information que l''on recherche. C''est pourquoi nous voyons Google Actualités comme un partenaire important des éditeurs d''information en ligne.<br /><br />Google est une société dans le domaine des technologies de l''information. Google ne cherche pas a créer du contenu, mais à aider les utilisateur à trouver ce qu''ils recherchent. Nous ne montrons que les titres et quelques lignes de texte et fournissons les liens Internet vers les sites en question – juste assez d''information pour donner envie à l''utilisateur de lire l''article dans sa totalité et de cliquer sur le lien correspondant.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Pourquoi mon site n''apparaît-il pas sur Google Actualités?</span><br /><br />Nous ne savons peut-être pas que votre site existe ou alors votre site ne remplit peut-être pas nos critères d''inclusion. Vous pouvez demander l''inclusion de votre site <a href="http://www.google.co.tz/support/news_pub/">ici</a><br /><br />Votre site ne remplit peut-être pas <a href="http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/topic.py?topic=11665">les standards techniques</a> .<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Comment puis-je rendre mon site plus facilement recherchable?</span><br /><br />Vous pouvez utiliser les outils web tels que Robots.txt et Sitemaps pour rendre votre site plus facilement recherchable. Les critères d''inclusion dans Google Actualités sont les mêmes que pour l''inclusion dans l''index général de Google. Vous trouverez plus d''information à ce sujet dans notre<a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/"> centre pour les webmasters</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Je ne veux pas que les internautes trouvent mon site sur Google News. Que dois-je faire?</span><br /><br />Les sites internets peuvent utiliser le standard robots.txt pour indiquer à un moteur de recherche tel que Google d''indexer ou non leur contenu.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Divon Lan, Product Manager, Afrique sub-saharienne</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/357589691" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:107:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/357589691/google-news-launches-in-9-african.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/2740693691361289522/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2740693691361289522?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2740693691361289522?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:80:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-news-launches-in-9-african.html";}}i:8;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-191815576367655136";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-08-05T18:20:00.005+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-05T20:26:03.289+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-05T20:26:03.289+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:36:"Announcing a new investment in Kenya";s:12:"atom_content";s:3842:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french9">En Français</a><br /><br />Here at Google, we know that information comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, through all sorts of media. And we know that you can only use information if you have access to it. That''s why we''re so excited to announce that we''re making a minority investment in Mobile Messaging Solutions, the parent company of <a href="http://www.mobileplanet.co.ke/index.html">Mobile Planet</a>, a Nairobi-based company that specializes in the development of wireless voice &amp; data applications for mobile devices in Kenya, with a special focus on SMS-based products and services. <br /><br />Mobile Planet offers one of the most exciting services in the region.  For example, during the 2002 & 2007 Kenyan elections, their platform provided up-to-the-minute election results -- as the results were tallied, subscribers were sent updates via SMS.  We met the founders, and it became very clear that Mobile Planet was an innovative force striving to link Africans with information, and that we shared a vision.<br /><br />Mobile telephony is already popular in Africa, and has seen significant growth over the past few years, particularly in countries like Kenya.  SMS is clearly a very important technology that provides access to the majority of mobile subscribers.  Mobile Planet''s expertise with SMS related technology and mission to "empower the African people with information" make this a very exciting partnership for us. We''ll be sure to keep you updated on how things go!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Joseph Mucheru, Office Lead - East Africa</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french9"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nouvel investissement au Kenya</span><br /><br />Chez Google, nous savons  que l’information se présente sous de multiples formats et à travers toutes sortes de media. Nous savons également qu’une information ne peut vous être utile que si elle est mise à votre portée. C’est pourquoi nous sommes heureux d''annoncer notre investissement minoritaire dans Mobile Messaging Solutions, la société mère de <a href="http://www.mobileplanet.co.ke/index.html">Mobile Planet</a>, une compagnie basée à Nairobi spécialisée dans le développement d’applications de transmissions sans fil de voix et de données pour les téléphones portables au Kenya ; cette société porte une attention particulière aux produits et services liés aux SMS.<br /><br />Mobile Planet offre certains des services les plus uniques de la région. Par exemple, pendant les élections de 2002 et de 2007 au Kenya, leur plateforme était en mesure de fournir des résultats en temps réel – au fur et à mesure du dépouillement des bulletins, les abonnés au service recevaient des mises à jour par SMS. Nous avons rencontré les fondateurs : il devint évident que Mobile Planet était une force innovatrice, unissant les Africains par l’information, et que nous partagions une vision commune.<br /><br />La téléphonie mobile est une industrie d''ores et déjà très populaire en Afrique, et a connu  une croissance exponentielle ces dernières années, particulièrement dans des pays tel que le Kenya. Le SMS est incontestablement une technologie très importante, fournissant un accès à l’information à la majorité des abonnés. L’expertise de Mobile Planet en matière de technologie SMS et son désir de  « donner le pouvoir au peuple africain par l’information » rend ce partenariat très stimulant pour nous. Comptez sur nous pour vous tenir informés sur l''avenir de ce partenariat !<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Joseph Mucheru, Chef de Bureau, Afrique de l''Est</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/356569583" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:108:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/356569583/announcing-new-investment-in-kenya.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:75:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/191815576367655136/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/191815576367655136?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/191815576367655136?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:81:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-new-investment-in-kenya.html";}}i:9;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-407287110997630543";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-30T18:40:00.003+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-08-05T19:17:41.794+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-08-05T19:17:41.794+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:57:"Bravo Vega! Winners of  Global Online Marketing Challenge";s:12:"atom_content";s:6900:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SJCmmopMMyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/3OYR8IhpGLM/s1600-h/vega.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SJCmmopMMyI/AAAAAAAAAA0/3OYR8IhpGLM/s320/vega.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228862350052569890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french8">En Français</a><br /><br />Congratulations to brand communications school <a href="http://www.vegaschool.com/">Vega</a> for winning the top spot in the South African leg of the <a href="http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/">Google Global Online Marketing Challenge </a>- ahead of another 5 other South African universities. This challenge is one of the biggest global university competitions, in which 1,650 student teams competed across 47 different countries. On an international level, Vega''s winning team finished in the top 50 within Europe, the Middle East and Africa.<br /><br />The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a hands-on exercise that gives undergraduate and post-graduate students direct experience of online advertising as part of their course. Participating teams each received the equivalent of US$200 to spend on AdWords advertising. They paired up with an online business of their choice to devise an effective online marketing campaign using AdWords. They were then required to outline a strategy, run the campaign, assess their results and give the business their recommendations to further develop their online marketing.<br /><br />The wining team from Vega chose to promote <a href="http://www.cometcar.co.za/">Comet </a>Online Car Rental, a 15 year old South African car rental company. Over the three weeks of the competition, their online marketing spend was $190, keeping them within budget. The campaign they created led to more than half a million search impressions on Google, which generated about 350 leads to Comet.<br /><br />Dr Carla Enslin, Vega''s Academic Head and Cape Town Campus Navigator observes that “Working with real brands, real budget, real time and real space, the Google competition is a fresh win-win approach to experiential learning. We are very proud of the students'' achievement and applaud the insight and experience that all teams have gained.”<br /><br />From the Google side, Lee Hunter, who is our Product Marketing Manager in EMEA, tells more of the story. “Following demand from professors and students across the world, we joined forces to develop this global competition to give students a practical taste of online marketing. Around 8,500 students across the world participated. The fact that the majority of these teams were able to improve the online presence of a local, small business in just three weeks, suggests how powerful and user-friendly a tool online marketing can be for small- and medium-sized businesses.”<br /><br />The winning team from Vega will soon meet with our Google South Africa team to celebrate their national victory, in true South African style. Students will also be given time with AdWords specialists to analyse the results of their ad campaign and discuss ways they could have improved results even more.<br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Marion Gamel, International Product Marketing Manager, Google South Africa</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french8"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bravo Vega! L’université remporte le premier prix sud-africain du concours marketing sur Internet organisé par Google.</span><br /><br />Félicitations à l''université <a href="http://www.vegaschool.com/">Vega</a> pour avoir remporté le premier prix en Afrique du Sud du <a href="http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/">concours marketing sur Internet</a> organisé par Google devant 5 autres universités sud-africaines. Ce concours est l’un des plus importants au niveau universitaire puisque 1 650 équipes d’étudiants venant de 47 pays différents se sont mesurés les unes aux autres en 2008. Au niveau international, Vega peut être fière d’avoir fini dans les 50 premières équipes en Europe, Moyen Orient et Afrique.<br /><br />Mais en quoi consistait ce concours exactement ? Il s’agit d’un exercice pratique où les étudiants ont expérimenté la publicité sur Internet. Les équipes d’étudiants qui ont participé au concours ont reçu l’équivalent de 200 dollars à dépenser sur le programme de publicité AdWords de Google. Leur mission a été de choisir une entreprise possédant un site Internet et de développer pour cette entreprise une campagne de publicité sur Google. Chaque équipe a développé une stratégie et une campagne de publicité, a ensuite analysé les résultats et conclu par des recommandations quant au développement futur de la présence en ligne de leur cas d’étude.<br /><br />L’équipe gagnante de Vega a choisi de promouvoir <a href="http://www.cometcar.co.za/">Comet</a> Online Car Rental, une PME sud-africaine de location de voitures, établie depuis 1993. Leur dépense sur 3 semaines de campagne a été de 190 dollars, donc sous la limite budgétaire requise. La campagne de publicité a généré 500 000 impressions et plus de 350 nouveaux contacts et clients potentiels pour Comet.<br /><br />Carla Enslin qui est à la tête du Campus de Vega à Cape Town a déclaré : « Les étudiants ont travaillé avec de véritables sociétés, un vrai budget, et en temps réel.  Le concours de publicité en ligne organisé par Google est un exemple parfait d’éducation basée sur l’expérience. Nous sommes très fiers du succès rempoté par nos étudiants et applaudissons l’expérience ainsi acquise ».<br /><br />Lee Hunter, Marketing Manager à Google en Europe dit : « Suite à la demande venant de professeurs et d’étudiants du monde entier, nous avons créé ce concours qui a pour but de donner aux étudiants une expérience réelle de la publicité sur Internet. En tout, environs 8 500 étudiants y ont participé. Le fait même que des étudiants aient réussi à améliorer la présence sur Internet d’entreprises locales en à peine trois semaines montre à quel point la publicité sur Internet est efficace et facile à utiliser, même pour des entreprises de taille modeste. »<br /><br />L’équipe gagnante de Vega rencontrera bientôt notre équipe Google Afrique du Sud pour une célébration en bonne et due forme de leur victoire nationale et sera invitée à réviser leur campagne de publicité afin de comprendre de quelle façon elle aurait pu apporter des résultats encore plus impressionnants.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Marion Gamel, Product Marketing Manager, Google Afrique du Sud</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/350718917" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:109:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/350718917/bravo-vega-winners-of-global-online.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:75:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/407287110997630543/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/407287110997630543?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/407287110997630543?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:82:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/bravo-vega-winners-of-global-online.html";}}i:10;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-746356899490006014";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-25T18:41:00.001+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-25T19:40:09.224+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-25T19:40:09.224+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:45:"Teaching iGoogle at East African universities";s:12:"atom_content";s:4652:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french7">En Français</a><br /><br />A couple of months ago some of our software engineers, including myself and led by our university programmes team, visited several universities in East Africa. This trip was part of our <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/east-africa-gadget-competition.html">East African iGoogle gadget competition</a>. The Competition requires students to create and submit an iGoogle gadget. (An iGoogle gadget is in many senses a small web page, or a small web application.)<br /><br />It was a wonderful experience. We visited several schools in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania and met a couple of hundred students eager to learn about new technologies. There''s nothing like technology to get people from around the world around sitting at the same table ;-)<br /><br />In each university we had a few technical lectures for the students as well as lab sessions in which they created small iGoogle web applications.  In each place we discussed web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, RSS, PHP, JSP as well as some more advanced topics such as AJAX, Software as a Service and more. These technologies are useful not only for creating an iGoogle gadget, but for creating any real-world software application today. In that sense, we feel we have not only given computer science students a fair chance of winning the contest, but also a fair chance -- and, we hope, an inspiration -- to have careers as computer scientists and software engineers in the global software market.<br /><br />Classes as well as the lab sessions were packed with students who were constantly asking questions. It was a real pleasure talking to the students and their professors. We enjoyed the very warm welcome and even took the time for an improvised drum session as well as walks to the local markets and museums.<br /><br />Shortly we''ll be reviewing the gadgets everyone submitted, and we''re very much looking forward to see each and every one!<br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ran Tavory, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french7"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faire découvrir iGoogle dans les universités de l''Est de l''Afrique</span><br /><br />Il y a quelques mois, un petit groupe d''ingénieurs en informatique, dont je faisais partie et conduit par notre équipe des programmes universitaires, a visité plusieurs universités de l''Est de l''Afrique. Ce voyage se faisait dans le cadre de notre <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/east-africa-gadget-competition.html">concours pour le Gadget iGoogle</a> des pays de l''Est de l''Afrique. Le concours consistait à demander aux étudiants de créer un gadget iGoogle (un gadget iGoogle est en quelque sorte une petite page web ou une petite application web).<br /><br />Cela fut passionnant. Nous avons visité plusieurs écoles en Ethiopie, Ouganda, Rwanda et Tanzanie et avons été en contact avec environ deux cents étudiants désireux d''en savoir plus sur nos technologies. La technologie, c''est vraiment ce qu''il y a de mieux pour mettre autour d''une même table des gens issus des quatre coins de la planète ;-)<br /><br />Dans chaque université, nous avons tenu des conférences techniques auprès des étudiants ainsi que des sessions pratiques pendant lesquelles ils ont créé des petites applications iGoogle. A chaque fois, c''était la possibilité d''expliquer des technologies comme HTML, CSS, Javascript, RSS, PHP, JSP mais aussi d''explorer des sujets plus pointus comme l''AJAX, le logiciel comme service, etc. Ces technologies sont utiles pour créer non seulement des gadgets iGoogle mais aussi des applicatiosn réelles. Dès lors, on a vraiment le sentiment d''avoir permis aux étudiants de gagner le concours mais aussi d''encourager chacun à faire carrière comme informaticien ou ingénieur logiciel.<br /><br />Les cours et démonstrations ont attiré beaucoup de monde, les étudiants posant toujours plus de questions. C''était un vrai plaisir que de parler à ces étudiants et à leurs professseurs. Nous avons apprécié leur accueil chaleureux et ensemble avons pris le temps d''une petite démonstration de tambour ainsi qu''une promenade dans les marchés et musées locaux.<br /><br />Nous allons bientôt faire la sélection des gadgets soumis par chacun et on se réjouit de les découvrir chacun en particulier !<br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Ran Tavory, Ingénieur informaticien</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/345877876" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/345877876/teaching-igoogle-at-east-african.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:75:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/746356899490006014/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/746356899490006014?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/746356899490006014?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:79:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/teaching-igoogle-at-east-african.html";}}i:11;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-6119633337527729139";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-21T17:15:00.001+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-21T18:15:34.654+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-21T18:15:34.654+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:49:"Partnership with the Zawadi Africa Education Fund";s:12:"atom_content";s:3393:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french6">En Français</a><br /><br />We are excited to announce a new partnership with the <a href="http://www.zawadiafrica.org/">Zawadi Africa Education Fund</a>. Zawadi Africa is a non-profit organization that provides educational opportunities to African women from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds. We have joined efforts to encourage more African women to pursue degrees and careers in computer science and technology.<br /><br />This collaboration will grant five Kenyan women full scholarships to complete degrees in computer science, computer engineering and/or ICT. With Zawadi''s help and support, the students will be applying to universities this summer, and we will select the 5 who will become the Google Zawadi Scholars. These students will be pursuing studies at top universities in Kenya and South Africa, and they''ll each have the support of a Google engineering mentor. We always encourage our engineers to get involved with opportunities likes this; they are eager to be involved and build connections with the students.<br /><br />Stay tuned at the end of the summer to find out who the five Google Zawadi Scholars are. For more information, please visit our student website and learn about <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&amp;sid=scholarships">Google Zawadi Africa Scholarships</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Louise Welch, People Operations Manager</span><br /><br />====<br /><a name="french6"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Partenariat avec Zawadi Africa Education Fund</span><br /><br />Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer un nouveau partenariat avec <a href="http://www.zawadiafrica.org/">Zawadi Africa Education Fund</a>. Zawadi Africa, ONG à but non lucratif, a pour vocation de donner accès aux études supérieures à des femmes africaines provenant de milieux défavorisés et ruraux. Nous avons joint nos efforts afin d''encourager les femmes africaines à poursuivre des études supérieures dans l''informatique et les technologies de l''information.<br /><br /><br />Cette collaboration se traduira par l''attribution de cinq bourses à des étudiantes kenyanes pour des études en informatique et/ou en technologies de l''information. Avec l''aide et le soutien de Zawadi, les étudiantes postuleront aux universités cet été, et nous choisirons cinq d''entre elles pour des bourses Google-Zawadi. Ces étudiantes iront poursuivre leurs études supérieures dans les meilleures universités du Kenya et d''Afrique du Sud, et bénéficieront de l''accompagnement d''un ingénieur de Google. Nous encourageons toujours nos ingénieurs à s''impliquer dans des opportunités comme celles-ci et avons reçu un fort intérêt en ce sens de leur part.<br /><br /><br />Restez à l''écoute pour connaître les cinq bénéficiaires d''une bourse Google-Zawadi, qui seront annoncées à la fin de l''été. Pour plus d''informations, vous pouvez visiter notre site à destination des étudiants et en apprendre plus sur<a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&amp;sid=scholarships"> les bourses Google Zawadi Africa</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Louise Welch, People Operations Manager</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/341666345" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/341666345/partnership-with-zawadi-africa.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/6119633337527729139/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6119633337527729139?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6119633337527729139?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:77:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/partnership-with-zawadi-africa.html";}}i:12;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-5544561090237754607";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-17T14:50:00.002+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-21T18:21:37.671+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-21T18:21:37.671+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:63:"South African student wins open source prize, visits Googleplex";s:12:"atom_content";s:6959:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french5">En Français</a><br /><br />Earlier this year, we announced our <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/02/announcing-grand-prize-winners-for.html">ten grand prize winners</a> for GHOP, the <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/">Google Highly Open Participation Contest</a> - our first initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world to help ten open source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research. Last week, all of the grand prize winners visited our Mountain View, California headquarters for an awards ceremony with <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#alan">Alan Eustace</a>, our Senior Vice President of Engineering.  Following lunch, they were treated to talks on Google technology, including <a href="http://code.google.com/android/">Android</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a>, Google infrastructure and <a href="http://googletesting.blogspot.com/">software testing</a> from engineers including <a href="http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html">Jeff Dean</a> and <a href="http://www.python.org/%7Eguido/">Guido van Rossum</a>, the creator of the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python programming language</a>.<br /><br />We were very pleased to welcome Grand Prize winner <a href="http://cb22.za.net/">Federico Lorenzi </a>from <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=cape+town,+south+africa&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=addr">Cape Town, South Africa</a>. Federico wrote software and created training materials for the <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin </a>project, an advanced, easy to use and extensible <a href="http://moinmo.in/WikiEngine">WikiEngine</a> with a large community of users.  He was chosen as the grand prize winner from among all of MoinMoin''s student contestants based on his high quality solutions to coding problems and for doing an excellent job communicating with the rest of the MoinMoin developer community. Federico''s brother, Luca, and his mentor, Alexander Schremmer (pictured below with Federico), both attended the awards ceremony.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SH8GMsPlhhI/AAAAAAAAAAk/eJHYHF7U3K4/s1600-h/federico-southafrica.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SH8GMsPlhhI/AAAAAAAAAAk/eJHYHF7U3K4/s320/federico-southafrica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223900907877795346" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In this short video, Federico and Alexander talk about about their work in the contest.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBObeIUX7qc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBObeIUX7qc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />The results of the GHOP contest have been truly impressive. We''re proud to have played a part in connecting these students to open source development opportunities. Many congratulations especially to Federico for his accomplishments!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french5"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Un étudiant sud-africain gagne le premier prix du concours Google Open Source et visite le Googleplex</span><br /><br />Il y a quelques mois, nous avons annoncé les noms des <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/02/announcing-grand-prize-winners-for.html">10 gagnants</a> du <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/">concours open source</a> organisé par Google, notre première initiative visant à impliquer les étudiants pré-universitaires dans le développement de programmes open source. Plus de 350 étudiants venant du monde entier ont participé au concours et à 10 projets open source auxquels ils ont apporté des améliorations de programmation, de marketing, de documentation et de recherche sur l’expérience utilisateur.<br /><br />La semaine dernière, les 10 gagnants ont visité le siège social de Google à Mountain View en Californie où ils ont été invités à une cérémonie de remise des prix présidée par <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#alan">Alan Eustace</a>, le Senior Vice Président d’ingénierie. Après un déjeuner en équipe, les gagnants ont été invités à des conférences sur la technologie Google, notamment sur <a href="http://code.google.com/android/">Android</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a>, l’infrastructure de Google, et <a href="http://googletesting.blogspot.com/">des tests de programmes</a>, par des ingénieurs tels que <a href="http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html">Jeff Dean</a> et <a href="http://www.python.org/%7Eguido/">Guido van Rossum</a>, le créateur du langage de programmation <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>.<br /><br />Nous étions ravis d’accueillir le grand vainqueur <a href="http://cb22.za.net/">Federico Lorenzi</a> qui vient <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=cape+town,+south+africa&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=addr">du Cap en Afrique du Sud</a>. Federico a créé un programme et la documentation de support pour le projet MoinMoin, un moteur Wiki très avancé, facile à utiliser et extensible, qui bénéficie d’une large audience d’utilisateurs. Federico a été choisi comme grand vainqueur parmi tous les étudiants participant au projet MoinMoin grâce aux solutions de grande qualité qu’il a su apporter aux problèmes de programmation et pour récompenser son attitude remarquable à communiquer avec la communauté de développeurs <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a>. Le frère de Federico, Luca, et son mentor, Alexander Schremmer (en photo au-dessus avec Federico), ont tous deux assisté à la cérémonie de remise des prix.<br /><br />Le court-métrage (au-dessus) montre Federic et Alexander qui parlent de leur travail et du concours auquel ils ont participé.<br /><br />Les résultats du concours open source ont été véritablement impressionnants. Nous sommes fiers d’avoir permis de mettre en relation ces étudiants avec les opportunités de développement dans l''open source. Félicitations, tout particulièrement à Federico et ses résultats !<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source</span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/338063635" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:112:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/338063635/south-african-student-wins-open-source.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/5544561090237754607/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5544561090237754607?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5544561090237754607?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:85:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/south-african-student-wins-open-source.html";}}i:13;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1624732913536557056";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-11T14:24:00.000+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-11T15:24:18.307+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-11T15:24:18.307+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:53:"Google Johannesburg celebrates World Environment Week";s:12:"atom_content";s:5287:"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SHYOKkCSOBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/lEcjgEBZDSU/s1600-h/IMG_9236.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ngd-JWXCu4E/SHYOKkCSOBI/AAAAAAAAAAM/lEcjgEBZDSU/s320/IMG_9236.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221376392617408530" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french4">En Français</a><br /><br />On 16 June, Google offices around the world celebrated World Environment Week by initiating GoogleServe. The idea is to participate in community service projects addressing local needs related to a common theme. As part of this initiative, the Johannesburg office spent an afternoon visiting the <a href="http://www.yenzani.org/">Yenzani Children''s Home</a>. And what fun we had!<br /><br />The home for abused, abandoned, orphaned and neglected children from different areas across sub-Saharan Africa, houses eleven children. The managers are particularly hands-on when it comes to trauma counseling and personal development for each child. The common goal is to create a homey atmosphere where every child can receive education, and on growing into adulthood, having the basic tools to succeed in life. And Yenzani seems to be an excellent place to grow a veggie patch, as the children are already involved in cultivating the land.<br /><br />We all managed to get our hands considerably dirty. And although our puny spinach leaves, cabbages and stick-like peach tree don''t look like anything to write home about, we''re pretty certain that with enough watering and care, the children will be eating peach pie by summer.<br /><br />Luckily, it wasn''t all raking, watering and digging. We brought along a football and tucked into a few hot dogs for lunch. The girls were obliterated during the match, and although we insisted that we should be playing netball too (''You may be able to kick, but can you catch, boys?''), there were some impressive ball skills that I for one couldn''t contend with.<br /><br />Overall, GoogleServe turned out to be a great team bonding experience over soil and seedlings,as well as the opportunity to contribute in a sustainable way to a community that really needs it.Generally fun was had by all, and it is definitely something we in the office unanimously agree would love to do again. We are already throwing around ideas for our next mission.<br /><br /><br /><span>Posted by Laurian Clemence, Associate Account Strategist</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french4"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Johannesbourg fête la Semaine Mondiale de l''Environnement<br /><br /><br /></span><span>Le 16 juin dernier, les bureaux Google du monde entier ont fêté la Journée de l''Environnement en lançant le programme Googleserve  (« Google sert »). L''idée est de participer à des projets attenant à diverses communautés et a leurs besoins locaux autour d''un thème commun : la protection de l''environnement. L''équipe de Google Johannesbourg s''est jointe au mouvement et a rendu visite à <a href="http://www.yenzani.org/">l''orphelinat Yenzani</a>. Quelle belle après-midi !<br /><br />Le centre pour enfants abusés, abandonnés ou négligés, qui viennent de différents pays d''Afrique, accueille en ce moment 11 enfants. Les superviseurs sont particulièrement impliqués dans leur convalescence émotionnelle et leur développement personnel. Le but étant de créer un environnement accueillant où chaque enfant est à même de recevoir une bonne éducation, et devenir un adulte armé des outils de base pour réussir dans la vie. Yenzani nous a immédiatement semblé être un endroit parfait où commencer un potager, puisque ses résidents sont déjà impliqués dans la culture du sol.<br /><br />Nous avons tous retroussé nos manches. Bien que ce que nous ayons planté n''était pas du plus réussi (épinards gringalets, choux-fleurs maigrichons et un pêcher peu feuillu !), nous espérons qu''avec assez d''attention et d''amour, les enfants mangeront de la tarte aux pêches cet été !<br /><br />Heureusement, la journée ne s''est pas passée qu''à planter, arroser et retourner la terre. Nous avions apporté un ballon de football et des hot dogs pour le pique-nique. Les filles ont été éliminées du jeu assez rapidement, bien que nous ayons insisté pour jouer aussi au netball (« Vous pouvez peut-être taper dans le ballon, les gars, mais pouvez-vous l''attraper ? »). Je dois avouer qu''il y eut de belles passes que je n''ai pu contrer.<br /><br />En résumé, cette journée sous le thème de GoogleServe est devenue une merveilleuse expérience d''équipe à travers le jardinage ainsi qu''une opportunité de contribuer un peu et de façon durable à la vie d''une communauté qui a besoin de soutien. Nous nous sommes tous beaucoup amusés et les employés de Google Johannesburg sont tous d''accord pour remettre cela bientôt. Nous sommes déjà en train de débattre d''idées pour notre prochaine mission.<br /><br /><span>Posté par Laurian Clemence, Associate Account Strategist</span><br /><br /><br /></span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/332686480" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:110:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/332686480/google-johannesburg-celebrates-world.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/1624732913536557056/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1624732913536557056?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1624732913536557056?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:83:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-johannesburg-celebrates-world.html";}}i:14;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:69:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-260597528332124940";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-10T13:31:00.007+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-11T11:42:22.259+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-11T11:42:22.259+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:31:"Programmers, get ready, get set";s:12:"atom_content";s:3977:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french3">En Français</a><br /><br />If you''re a great sprinter, you''ve probably been in a few races. And if you''re a great chess player, you''ve probably had your share of matches. But what do you do if you''re a great programmer?<br /><br />Well, if you''re looking for the rush of competition, the feeling of matching your mind up against the greatest in the world, and the chance to compete for more than U.S.$80,000 in cash prizes, you can''t do better than Google Code Jam. The contest gives you two short hours to solve some tricky algorithmic challenges. You''ll read a problem, write your code, download our test cases, and tell us what you think the right answers are. If you''re right, it''s time to move on to another problem -- but if you''re wrong, it''s time to make a decision. Debug, or look for an easier challenge...?<br /><br />Here''s how it works: You''ll need to <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/">register</a> by Thursday, July 17, 2008, and compete against global contestants in the online rounds during July and August. If you make it to the top 500, you''ll travel to a nearby Google office for our semifinal round. If you''re in the top 100, we''ll fly you to our Mountain View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.735377,91.054688&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.424094,-122.083361&amp;spn=0.009253,0.02223&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr">headquarters</a> to compete with the world''s very best. You can learn more details and practice a few problems on <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/">our website</a>. We hope to see you at the finals!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Bartholomew Furrow, 20% Tech Lead for Google Code Jam</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french3"></a><b>Programmeurs, préparez vous, soyez prêts</b><br /><br />Si tu es un bon sprinteur, tu as probablement couru plusieurs courses. Si tu es un bon joueur d''échecs, tu as probablement joué dans de nombreuses compétitions. Mais que fais-tu si tu es un bon programmeur?<br /><br />Si tu cherches l''adrénaline d''une compétition, si tu veux rivaliser avec les meilleurs dans le monde et avoir la chance de concourir pour plus de 80,000 U.S.$ de prix, tu ne peux pas faire mieux que de participer au Google Code Jam. Cette compétition te propose de résoudre en deux petites heures des défis algorithmiques compliqués. Tu devras lire un problème donné, rédiger ton code, télécharger nos études de cas et nous donner ta réponse. Si tu as raison, tu pourras alors poursuivre vers un autre problème. Si tu ne trouves pas la bonne réponse, tu devras prendre une décision: déboguer ou chercher un défi plus simple pour toi...?<br /><br />Voilà comment cela marche: D''abord, tu devras <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/">t''inscrire</a> avant le jeudi 17 juillet 2008. Ensuite, tu concourras contre des candidats partout dans le monde lors de rounds en ligne en juillet et en août. Si tu termines dans les 500 premiers, tu iras dans un des bureaux de Google pour la demi-finale. Si tu en sors dans les 100 premiers, tu pourras t''envoler vers notre <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.735377,91.054688&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=37.424094,-122.083361&amp;spn=0.009253,0.02223&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr">siège social</a> à  Mountain View en Californie pour concourir contre les meilleurs des meilleurs. Tu peux en savoir plus et t''entraîner sur quelques problèmes sur <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/">notre site</a>. Nous espérons te voir en finale!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posté par Bartholomew Furrow, 20% Tech Lead pour Google Code Jam </span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/331729790" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/331729790/programmers-get-ready-get-set_10.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:75:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/260597528332124940/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/260597528332124940?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:85:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/260597528332124940?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:79:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/programmers-get-ready-get-set_10.html";}}i:15;a:14:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-7448010724035283519";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-04T14:17:00.012+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-04T15:23:33.595+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-04T15:23:33.595+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:30:"East Africa gadget competition";s:12:"atom_content";s:6878:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french2">En Français</a><br /><br />We are currently hosting a gadget competition for university students in East Africa. Participants from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia can design and build gadgets to complete to win prizes. The competition launched in February 2008 and the deadline for gadget submissions is 14 July 2008.<br /><p class="MsoNormal" id="lo9o2">This is the first technical contest we''ve organized for students in East Africa, and we''ve been excited to see students from all over the region creating gadgets. The final overall winner and a handful of runners-up will win stipends, trophies, increased exposure for their gadget on our website, and, of course, Google <a id="nlzl" title="schwag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_item">schwag</a>.</p>     <p class="MsoNormal" id="y6ir68">In case you''re wondering what gadgets are, they are small, simple applications that run on web pages. There are gadgets for easy email access, to-do lists, football results, and other fun uses. They''re simple to develop, provided you have some knowledge of HTML (and ideally XML and JavaScript too). And they''re easy to distribute – through <a id="kl1q" title="iGoogle" href="http://www.google.com/ig">iGoogle</a> (our personalized homepage), platforms such as <a id="fm91" title="OpenSocial" href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/">OpenSocial</a>, and third-party websites. There are tens of millions of people who use gadgets globally, generating billions of gadget pageviews per week.<br /><br />There are more details, including developer resources, on the <a id="siy5" title="Official Gadget Competition website" href="http://www.google.com/eagadgetcompetition">Official Gadget Competition website</a>. </p><br />After the submission deadline on <b id="leyj1" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span id="leyj2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Monday, July 14th, 2008</span></b>, our panel of engineers will review all fully-functioning gadgets and nominate one overall winner ("Best Overall Gadget"). In addition, five other prizes will be awarded for top categorical entries. Possible categories in which a winner will be awarded include:<br /><br /><p id="leyj5">(1) Best Gadget UI<br />(2) Best Local Content Gadget (Most Locally Useful Gadget)<br />(3) Best Education Specific Gadget<br />(4) Most Technically Sophisticated Gadget<br />(5) Gadget Most Likely to Get International Traffic<br />(6) Best Social Gadget</p><p id="leyj5"><br /></p>  <p class="MsoNormal" id="n89y2">For the six winners of the East Africa Gadget Competition we have the following exciting prizes: Five students will receive a <b id="leyj14" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span id="afd6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">US$350</span> </b>stipend and the winner of the Best Overall Gadget will receive a <b id="leyj15" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span id="afd60" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">US$600</span></b> stipend. So don''t delay -- <a id="w.95" title="Submit your gadgets here." href="http://www.google.com/ig/submit?synd=eacontest">submit your gadgets here!</a></p><span class="byline-author"><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Posted by </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Louise Welch, People Operations Manager </span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french2"></a>Nous organisons actuellement un concours de gadgets ouvert aux étudiants des universités de l''Est de l''Afrique. Les participants de Tanzanie, d''Ouganda, du Kenya, du Rwanda, du Burundi et d''Ethopie peuvent concevoir et développer des gadgets, pour concourir et gagner des prix. Le concours est ouvert depuis février 2008 et la date limite pour envoyer vos propositions de gadgets est fixée au 14 juillet 2008. <p id="bfv23">C''est le premier concours technique que nous organisons pour les étudiants d''Afrique de l''Est, et nous nous réjouissons de voir des créations de gadgets de la part d''étudiants de toute la région. Le gagnant final et une poignée de dauphins seront récompensés par l''octroi d''une somme, des trophées, une visibilité accrue pour leurs gadgets sur notre site Internet, et des produits Google bien sûr.</p> <p id="bfv25">Si vous vous demandez ce que sont des gadgets Google, ce sont de petites applications simples qui tournent sur des pages Internet. Il existe des gadgets pour faciliter la lecture de vos emails, pour réaliser des listes de choses à faire, pour visualiser des résultats de football, et pour de multiples autres utilisations pratiques et divertissantes. Leur développement est aisé si vous avez déjà quelques connaissances en HTML (et également en XML et JavaScript dans l''idéal). Leur diffusion est simple : via <a id="piem" title="iGoogle" href="http://www.google.com/ig">iGoogle</a> (notre page d''accueil personnalisée), sur des plateformes comme <a id="fmzx" title="OpenSocial" href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/">OpenSocial</a>, et d''autres sites Internet. Des dizaines de millions de personnes utilisent les gadgets à travers le monde, ce qui génère des milliards de pages vues à travers les gadgets chaque semaine.</p> <p id="bfv27">Plus de détails, y compris une documentation pour les développeurs, sont disponibles sur le <a id="qn_v" title="site officiel du Concours de Gadgets" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/eagadgetcompetition/">site officiel du Concours de Gadgets</a>.</p>   <p id="lkzt1">Passée la date limite du <b id="so06">lundi 14 juillet 2008</b>, notre jury d''ingénieurs examinera tous les gadgets entièrement fonctionnels et désignera le gagnant global ("Meilleur Gadget Toutes Catégories"). De plus, cinq autres prix viendront récompenser les meilleurs gadgets de chaque catégorie. Les catégories possibles pour lesquelles un gagnant sera récompensé sont:</p><p id="lkzt1"><br />(1) Gadget avec la Meilleure Interface Utilisateur<br />(2) Meilleur Gadget de Contenu Local (Gadget le plus utile localement)<br />(3) Meilleur Gadget Educatif<br />(4) Gadget le plus Sophistiqué Techniquement<br />(5) Gadget doté du Meilleur Potentiel International<br />(6) Meilleur Gadget Social</p><p id="lkzt1"><br /></p> Nous distribuerons aux six gagnants du Concours de Gadgets pour l''Afrique de l''Est les prix formidables suivants : cinq étudiants gagneront <b id="so060">US$350</b> et le gagnant du "Meilleur Gadget Toutes Catégories" recevra <b id="so061">US$600</b>. Alors n''attendez plus : <a id="jw:4" title="envoyez votre gadget ici" href="http://www.google.com/ig/submit?synd=eacontest">envoyez votre gadget ici</a> !<br /><br /><span class="byline-author"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Poste par Louise Welch, People Operations Manager</span><br /></span><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/326633538" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/326633538/east-africa-gadget-competition.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/7448010724035283519/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7448010724035283519?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7448010724035283519?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:8:"farzanak";s:10:"author_uri";s:51:"http://www.blogger.com/profile/15579070590368079689";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:77:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/east-africa-gadget-competition.html";}}i:16;a:13:{s:2:"id";s:70:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-6960039369671344121";s:9:"published";s:29:"2008-07-03T15:30:00.007+02:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-07-08T15:03:30.008+02:00";s:3:"app";a:1:{s:6:"edited";s:29:"2008-07-08T15:03:30.008+02:00";}s:5:"title";s:48:"Covering all things Google in Sub-Saharan Africa";s:12:"atom_content";s:8583:"<a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/#french1">En Français</a><br /><br />Today, we''re pleased to launch our official blog for Sub-Saharan* Africa.<br /><br />We believe that the Internet is a transformational force for societies. And it''s making us all much more powerful as individuals, regardless of whether one is in New York, Stockholm, Bujumbura, Ouagadougou, or Cape Town. Regardless of background, education, social status, gender, age or economic situation, online access to information enables people to create opportunities for themselves. Seeing a student in a cybercafe doing his research using a search engine, a businessman chatting with a colleague abroad with instant messaging, or a young woman posting her photos to a social networking site - it''s clear the extent to which academic, business and social life is fundamentally changing all over Africa.<br /><br />Google''s aim is to democratize access to the world''s information. But clearly we (along with other companies) face significant challenges in Africa in making the Internet available to as many people as possible. How do we help the hundreds of millions of people who are illiterate? How do we make the world''s information available in African languages (about 2000 languages are spoken on this continent)? How do we support online access for people who live in rural environments without electricity? How do we make African content more widely available - not only in Africa, but around the world? How can we get more people connected, and make access faster and cheaper? These are some of the questions we''ve been asking ourselves.<br /><br />Over the past few months, we have significantly ramped up our work in Sub-Saharan Africa: we now have offices in Nairobi and Johannesburg, and are looking to hire many more people all over the continent just as fast as we can find them (see our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&amp;jobslc=africa">job openings</a>). We have an <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/eagadgetcompetition/">iGoogle gadget competition</a> going with computer science students in East Africa; we''ve launched <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Kenya&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=2.043024,37.924805&amp;spn=14.541434,12.524414&amp;z=6">Google Maps data for Kenya</a>. And then there is the work that individual Googlers - some African, some from elsewhere - are doing on the ground in conjunction with technology entrepreneurs, software developers, universities, and the ICT and NGO communities.<br /><br />In addition to this blog, we are also announcing the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-africa-community">Google Africa community discussion forum</a>, on topics related to our products and activities in Africa and the Internet in Africa in general. We will be regularly reading the postings on this list and product managers and engineers may participate in the discussions as appropriate, making it an excellent way to discuss a broad range of topics. This forum is open for all, and we encourage anyone interested to join it.<br /><br />*The region includes these countries and territories: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d''Ivoire, Djibouti, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Joe Mucheru, Office Lead-East Africa, and Divon Lan, Product Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa</span><br /><br />====<br /><br /><a name="french1"></a><div>C''est avec une grande fierté que nous lançons aujourd''hui le Blog Officiel Google pour l''Afrique Sub Saharienne*.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chez Google, nous croyons que l''Internet est une force d''évolution des sociétés. Cela nous rend bien plus efficace en tant qu''individus - qu''importe si vous êtes à New York, Stockholm, Bujumbura, Ouagadougou, ou au Cap. Au delà des différences d''histoire, d''éducation, de statut social, de sexe, d''age ou de situation économique, l''accès à l''information offre des opportunités pour chacun de créer pour lui-même. Regardez un étudiant faire ses recherches en utilisant un moteur de recherche à partir d''un cybercafé, un homme d''affaires discutant avec un collègue à l''autre bout du monde via messagerie instantanée, ou une jeune femme postant ses photos sur un site de réseau social - il est évident de voir à quel point les pôles universitaires, d''affaires ou sociaux sont en train de changer fondamentalement dans toute l''Afrique.</div><div><br /></div><div>Le désir de Google est de démocratiser l''accès à toute l''information. Mais soyons réaliste, Google et les autres sociétés d''Internet rencontrent des challenges significatifs en Afrique pour rendre le réseau accessible à tous : Comment allons nous rendre l''information accessible aux centaines de millions de personnes illettrées ? Comment pourrons-nous donner cette information dans toutes les langues du continent Africain (il y a environ 2000 langues parlées sur ce continent) ? Comment rendrons-nous l''information accessible aux personnes qui habitent dans les zones rurales sans électricité ? Comment ferons-nous pour que le contenu Africain devienne accessible globalement et non uniquement en Afrique ? Comment aiderons-nous les gens à se connecter, et rendre leur accès plus rapide et meilleur marché ? Ces questions sont celles que nous nous sommes posées à Google.</div><div><br /></div><div>Au cours des derniers mois, nous avons significativement accru notre action en Afrique Sub-Saharienne: nous avons dorénavant des bureaux à Nairobi et Johannesburg, et nous recrutons encore de nombreuses personnes sur tout le continent aussi rapidement que possible (consultez <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&amp;jobslc=africa">nos postes ouverts</a>). Nous avons mis en place <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/eagadgetcompetition/">un concours gadget iGoogle</a> avec les étudiants en Informatique d''Afrique de l''Est et nous avons lancé <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Kenya&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=2.043024,37.924805&amp;spn=14.541434,12.524414&amp;z=6">Google Maps pour le Kenya</a>. Il y a aussi le travail accompli par certains Googlers - Africains, ou d''autres régions du monde - sur place en partenariat avec les dirigeants du secteur technologique, ingénieurs en développement, universités, ainsi que les communautés informatiques et non-gouvernementales.</div><div><br /></div><div>En complément de ce blog, nous annonçons également le lancement du forum <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-africa-community">Communauté Google Afrique</a>. C''est un lieu ouvert de discussion sur les sujets en rapport avec les produits et activités de Google en Afrique et sur l''Internet en Afrique de manière générale. Nos collègues et nous-même lirons régulièrement les sujets de cette liste. Les Product Managers de Google ainsi que les ingénieurs pourront participer si nécessaire - ceci faisant de ce forum un excellent endroit pour discuter des sujets intéressants avec Google. Il sera ouvert à tous - et nous encourageons toute personne interessée à nous y rejoindre.</div><div><br /></div><div>* L''Afrique Sub Saharienne inclut les pays et territoires suivants: Afrique du Sud, Angola, Bénin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Cap Vert, République Centre Africaine, Tchad, les Comores, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d''Ivoire, Djibouti, République Démocratique du Congo, Guinée-Equatoriale, Erythrée, Ethiopie, Gabon, Gambie, Ghana, Guinée , Guinée Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libéria, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritanie, Ile Maurice, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibie, Niger, Nigeria, Ile de la Réunion, Rwanda, São Tomé et Príncipe, Sénégal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalie, Swaziland, Tanzanie, Togo, Ouganda, Zambie, Zimbabwe.</div><div><br /></div><div>Posté par Joe Mucheru, Chef de Bureau, Afrique de l''Est et Divon Lan, Product Manager, Afrique Sub-Saharienne</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/326164076" height="1" width="1"/>";s:4:"link";s:111:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/326164076/introducing-googles-official-blog-for.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:76:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/6960039369671344121/comments/default";s:9:"link_self";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6960039369671344121?v=2";s:9:"link_edit";s:86:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6960039369671344121?v=2";s:11:"author_name";s:9:"A Googler";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:84:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-googles-official-blog-for.html";}}}s:7:"channel";a:12:{s:2:"id";s:45:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2008-09-20T16:22:06.175+02:00";s:5:"title";s:27:"Official Google Africa Blog";s:8:"subtitle";s:57:"Google in Sub-Saharan Africa: news, stories and thoughts.";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/";s:42:"link_http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed";s:53:"http://google-africa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default";s:11:"author_name";s:9:"A Googler";s:12:"author_email";s:19:"noreply@blogger.com";s:9:"generator";s:7:"Blogger";s:10:"opensearch";a:3:{s:12:"totalresults";s:2:"17";s:10:"startindex";s:1:"1";s:12:"itemsperpage";s:2:"25";}s:9:"link_self";s:52:"http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog";s:10:"feedburner";a:3:{s:14:"emailserviceid";s:7:"2178149";s:18:"feedburnerhostname";s:25:"http://www.feedburner.com";s:9:"feedflare";s:162:"Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes";}}s:9:"textinput";a:0:{}s:5:"image";a:0:{}s:9:"feed_type";s:4:"Atom";s:12:"feed_version";N;s:5:"stack";a:0:{}s:9:"inchannel";b:0;s:6:"initem";b:0;s:9:"incontent";b:0;s:11:"intextinput";b:0;s:7:"inimage";b:0;s:13:"current_field";s:0:"";s:17:"current_namespace";b:0;s:19:"_CONTENT_CONSTRUCTS";a:6:{i:0;s:7:"content";i:1;s:7:"summary";i:2;s:4:"info";i:3;s:5:"title";i:4;s:7:"tagline";i:5;s:9:"copyright";}s:13:"last_modified";s:31:"Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:25:12 GMT\r\n";s:4:"etag";s:29:"p50cbDL8ixX1PUWCWTbCKIJAILo\r\n";}', 'no');
