December 2010
52 posts
ncho started following mbleigh →
mbleigh has 48 public repos and 222 followers
Dec 30th
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African leaders advise Bono on reform of U2 →
Love it! africacompany: An expert commission of African leaders today announced their plan for comprehensive reform of music band U2. Saying that U2’s rock had lost touch with its African roots, the commission called for urgent measures to halt U2’s slide towards impending crisis. “Our youth today are imperiled by low quality music,” said Commission chairman Nelson Mandela. “We will be...
Dec 30th
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ncho started watching holman/boom →
boom’s description: Motherfucking TEXT SNIPPETS! On the COMMAND LINE!
Dec 30th
TransTales Entertainment - African Tales Animation →
TransTales Entertainment was started in 2005 on a budget of less than 5 000 dollars by Segun Williams and Obinna Onwuekwe, and is the first film company to produce African themed 3D animation films…
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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ncho started watching bbcrd/zeitgeist →
zeitgeist’s description: Twitter Zeitgeist
Dec 29th
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WatchWatch
Movie: Bush League In Bush League the “beautiful game” is an allegory for life and development in the tiny village of Zolokere, Malawi. This intimate, intense documentary tells the stories of four villagers who share a passion for soccer.
Dec 29th
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5 Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About... →
A conservative commentator recently made headlines by claiming 10 percent of all of the world’s Muslims are terrorists. An amazing claim, considering that equals 150 million terrorists and if each were to pull off an attack killing just 40 people, they could exterminate all non-Muslim life on earth. Either they’re not all that dedicated to terrorism, or the claim is utter...
Dec 21st
ncho started watching jchris/canonical-json →
canonical-json’s description: An attempt to make a JSON generator that gives the same result everytime. Canonical is a bad name for this and should be ignored.
Dec 21st
FUEL CMS : A Rapid Development CodeIgniter CMS →
An easy, flexible, empowering Content Management System for rapid development that transforms your CodeIgniter projects into client manageable brilliance.
Dec 21st
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Kenyan IT firm scoops global HP award →
bsama: BARCELONA – It was a moment of national pride today following the selection of Seven Seas Technologies, a locally owned Integrated IT systems solutions provider as this year’s HP Software partner of the year award recipient in Barcelona, Spain.  To win the highly coveted award from HP, one of the world’s leading enterprise software developers, Seven Seas Technologies managed to beat a...
Dec 20th
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FreedomBox - Debian Wiki  →
Inspired by Eben Moglen’s vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home. We are building a Debian based platform for distributed applications.
Dec 20th
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GNUnet | GNU's Framework for Secure Peer-to-Peer... →
GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing.
Dec 20th
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tahoe-lafs →
Tahoe-LAFS (Least Authority File System) is a Free Software/Open Source decentralized data store. It distributes your filesystem across multiple servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to work correctly and to preserve your privacy and security
Dec 20th
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OneSocialWeb - Creating a free, open, and... →
Onesocialweb is an initiative of Vodafone Group Research and Development to serve the discussions and help taking concrete steps towards an open social web.
Dec 20th
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The Appleseed Project - Open Source Social... →
Appleseed aims to create an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software.
Dec 20th
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Gitorious →
Gitorious provides open source infrastructure for hosting open source projects that use Git. The central entity in Gitorious is the project, which contains one or more top-level repositories and any repositories managed by the project’s contributors.
Dec 20th
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DFRN - The Distributed Friends and Relations... →
DFRN provides the means for people to conduct online social network activities without requiring a central website (such as MySpace, Facebook, etc.). These web companies quite literally own the personal communications and online friendships of hundreds of millions of people.
Dec 20th
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Screens, VNC Client  →
Accessing your computer from anywhere has never been easier. Screens is the ultimate VNC client for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
Dec 20th
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The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet -... →
If you want to simulate the Earth, you’ll need data on the climate, health, finance, economics, traffic and lots more. Here’s where to find it.
Dec 20th
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Ufahari.com  →
Ufahari shines a spotlight on unique innovations, brilliant ideas, and creative people from the developing world. Ufahari also hosts events where uniquely brilliant, and creative ideas can be shared on an open platform
Dec 20th
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African poverty: Falling faster than you think |... →
Sub-Saharan Africa has made little progress in reducing extreme poverty, according to the latest Millennium Development Report. This column presents evidence from 1970 to 2006 to the contrary.
Dec 20th
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BBC News - In pictures: Ghana's amazing coffins →
Amazing
Dec 20th
ncho: Broadband world: Connecting Africa -... →
ncho: Broadband world: Connecting Africa - Interesting interactive map showing total user’s online and the spread… http://tumblr.com/xan139j6i3
Dec 20th
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ncho started watching michiel-unhosted/unhosted →
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Broadband world: Connecting Africa →
Interesting interactive map showing total user’s online and the spread of submarine cable systems (EASSy, SAT-3, etc) over time. Also includes a great article on Kenya (Nairobi) becoming East Africa’s “hi-tech hub” (Ushahidi was mentioned). We need more of these types of articles.
Dec 19th
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Ten Biggest Africa Stories Of 2010 →
Posted by Alexis Okeowo Though I’ve lived in and write about the gigantic, endlessly fascinating continent that is Africa, I still find it difficult to keep up with the myriad of elections, celebrations, conflicts, and sporting matches that take place there each year. 2010 was no exception. Among the elating, disturbing, and promising, here’s what caught my eye. The World Cup A...
Dec 19th
Purchase Appcelerator Titanium Modules | Nettuts+ →
Boilerplate modules for Titanium
Dec 19th
Mapstraction - Home →
Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once,…
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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ncho: RT @bill_easterly: African export success:... →
ncho: RT @bill_easterly: African export success: finding the needle when you’re not sure which haystack http://bit.ly/emxGr6
Dec 15th
Afrinnovator.com - Putting Africa on the Map:... →
Putting Africa on the Map: African innovation, African made technology, African tech entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs
Dec 15th
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Using Facebook Data to Visualize Friendships →
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders...
Dec 14th
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Face detection with OS X and python →
Dec 14th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Andreya Triana (10) Build An Ark (9) Chicago Public Radio (6) Floating Points Ensemble (5) BBC World Service (4)
Dec 14th
ncho started watching nickpaulson/ReTweetie →
Dec 14th
Bowline →
Quick & Powerful Ruby Desktop Applications
Dec 14th
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How to prototype interactive iPad applications in...
jesseddy: Pretty amazing, I’d love to try this sometime. Click through to watch the video and for lots more great details. And some of the UI elements created for this prototype, which can be bought here: http://keynotopia.com/themes/
Dec 11th
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ncho started watching Ramaze/ramaze →
Dec 10th
Jazz Toolbox →
Jazz Toolbox is an online Jazz utility driven by a full object-relational and REST model of concepts in Jazz theory, establishing relationships between chords and scales, and much more. The web…
Dec 9th
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Afri-Facts
theafropolitan: Africa possesses 99 percent of the world’s chrome resources, 85 percent of its platinum, 70 percent of its tantalite, 68 percent of its cobalt, and 54 percent of its gold.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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kindlebility - Sending articles to your Kindle,... →
kindlebility - Sending articles to your Kindle, one click at a time!
Dec 8th
ncho started watching elliothaughin/socialize →
Dec 7th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Deftones (19) City Soul (16) Animals as Leaders (14) Gnarls Barkley (2) Danger Mike (2)
Dec 7th
ncho started watching timothyf/EngineY →
Dec 5th
The Hello Bar | A little web toolbar that gets... →
Many websites nowadays have their own toolbars that the site’s developer has personalized to fit the site. Normally however is not welcome by the site’s visitors because the bar has a clutter of…
Dec 4th
Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac →
Git Tower is a Mac app, built in Cocoa, that provides a GUI for working with the Git version control system.
Dec 4th
Mobilitate →
You report it. Mobilitate gets it fixed. Simple as that.
Dec 4th