Today we hear the sad sad story of how Google is apparently behind a nefarious plot to steal business away from mocality.co.ke. For those that do not know, Mocality is one of Kenya’s largest business directories with over 170,000 verified businesses in its database. it has been in Kenya for a number of years. Late [...]
Everyone Uses the Internet for a Reason
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As the year starts, here is an absolute GEM from DoshDosh: “It’s the first month of a new year and at this time I’m itching to start new web ventures both for fun and profit. I usually do up a list of possible startup and site ideas and narrow them down into those with the [...]
Education Reform in Kenya
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I came across an article titled “The Golden Age of Education” which is really about the problems with education in the developed world. I read it and felt it was talking about the exact problems facing education in Kenya. Here’s a few paragraphs: “10 years ago, if you did well in high school you’d get [...]
Juliani’s Adsense Campaign – An Analysis
January 3, 2012 By 3 Comments
While surfing the web, I was very intrigued to see a Google Adwords advert of Juliani. As an Internet lover, this excites me! It is good to see that the ‘net has penetrated the country so much to the extent where musicians take out Google Adword ads! Nice, eh? So I clicked the advert to [...]
PayPal Coming to Kenya in 2012?
December 30, 2011 By 21 Comments
Rumor has it that you will soon be able to withdraw your PayPal funds in Kenya legally and easily. This could not have come at a better time since we spent last year going from disappointment to disappointment with all the new services and “tricks” that we had to try out in order to withdraw [...]
The American Government is Trying to Ruin the Internet … and Can Affect us in KENYA!!
December 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
In case you haven’t heard, PIPA (PROTECT Intellectual Property Act) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) are bills working their way through the US Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. They both propose giving the USA government the power to censor web sites in much the same way that China, North Korea, and Iran censor [...]
