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Strathmore University hosted an open session where a few interesting projects done by people around the skunkworks community got presented. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who by the way invented the WWW) was the chief guest. Among the projects were: pesapal done by Liko Agosta – Verviant jahazi done by Mugambi – VST iScribe + Afrinnovator by [...]
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The last few months has seen activity with several notable entries into the online classifieds space: N-SOKO – Done by the Nation Media Group (which unfortunately is rather graphics/flash heavy and thus mobile unfriendly). The fact that they already have a sizeable online audience makes many sellers flock there. Kenyan Craiglist – It remains to [...]
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Wao pia ni Members: Phishing
It looks like the conmen are at it again with an (obviously) suspicious looking website that looks quite similar to Equity Bank’s website. Real: http://www.equitybank.co.ke/ Fake (visit at your own risk): www.equitybanknig-plc.com/ It makes for a good laugh, as many guys on the Skunkworks mailing list noticed. Look at this extract regarding the Equity Bank [...]
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It is surprising that a good number of Internet Service Providers actually limit bandwidth to locally hosted websites (a purist definition of local content). The trend is to cap bandwidth to the specific service package signed up for irrespective of whether traffic is local or international.ISPs could potentially save international bandwidth costs by aggressively promoting [...]
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IEEE exhibition
I managed to visit the just concluded IEEE exhibition on 14th and 15th at the Sarit Centre, and was amazed at how this annual event has grown over the last few years. When I was in University, it was much smaller and only had participants from about 3-5 institutions in Kenya. This year’s event had [...]
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He started by giving a brief history of his time in Africa, starting with his stint at the Royal Marines, to a Security Consultant in the Sudan and Somalia, before settling in Kenya doing some import and export business. While involved in business, he realised that while using the KENPAC service for sending and receiving [...]
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ICT Entreprenuership Talk
After an early career in the Royal Marines Richard Bell started Swift Global in Nairobi in 1994. He subsequntly started Kenya Data Networks (KDN) in 2002 before selling both and going to the London Business School as a Sloan Fellow at the end of 2004. in 2006 he formed EastAfrica Capital Partners (EACP) a venture [...]
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Learning: Ruby
Stephen Covey says that one’s current knowledge has a half life of 2 years at most. Dennis Waitley goes on and on about dedicating oneself to ‘Life Long Learning‘. It’s always good to keep learning something so as to remain relevant in today’s knowledge based economy. I feel that I’ll always dabbling in technology. So, [...]
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Bloggers Code of Conduct ;)
Is it too late to bring civility to the Web? The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. Read more ->
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