In case you have not realised it yet, computer programming skills are as necessary for success today as reading and writing have been for the past few centuries. In fact, “You’re a second-class citizen if you don’t know how to read and write today, and in twenty or thirty years the same will be true […]
[Continue reading…]TrINC Money : MPESA-PayPal Service [Updated]
January 20, 2012 by 36 Comments
I was a bit hesitant to write about this new service after the rise and fall of PayMPESA, but here goes: Trinc Money seems to be a new service that allows you to transfer money to and from PayPal via MPESA. yes, this means that it lets you both withdraw and deposit money into PayPal […]
[Continue reading…]Strategic SEO
January 20, 2012 by 13 Comments
We all want our names, companies and products to come up when you search for them on Google, right? This is what SEO.; Search Engine Optimization – the art and science of making sure you are found when people search on Google and other search engines. I get clients asking me for this everyday. The […]
[Continue reading…]The Most Popular Browser & Operating System in Kenya
January 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
This post is based on statistics of visitors to www.likechapaaa.com of the period January 2011 to January 2012. The data represents the operating systems and browsers used by the people who visited Like Chapaa in the year 2011. Here’s a nice little graph for you: PC Operating systems Of course it is no surprise that […]
[Continue reading…]Who Was Behind The Google Mocality Shenanigans? [Updated]
January 14, 2012 by 11 Comments
This is an update from yesterday’s big huge story of Google fraud against Mocality here in Kenya. Please read the article to learn what happened. At the end of the day, Google issued a statement which read: “We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s […]
[Continue reading…]Google Being Evil in Kenya
January 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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. […]
[Continue reading…]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 […]
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