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They expect to have 1 million customers by Jan 2008! Click here for the story.

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Apparently KDN is offering free wi-fi in Nairobi (think it’s a promotion for their Butterfly product). It’s supposed to last through the end of the month. If you have a wi-fi enabled laptop, PDA etc. just search for the essid butterfly and connect. They are supposed to have around 100 access points in Nairobi.

EDIT: Riba and Bankelele, where did you try and connect?

EDIT 2: Article on the wi-fi offer.

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- Presenting Jahazi (thanks Riyaz for initial heads up…man there’s lots of things buzzing in Nairobi, can’t wait to spend more time there). Can’t wait for it to go mobile and very happy to see Kenyan developers doing their thing.

- Also worth checking out, the Kenyan myspace - Nivipi.

- African blog spotlight: Coding South of the Sahara (the journey of an “Afropreneur” - love the word!)

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I’m still without an ADSL line so in between that and Gabriella, my surfing is spotty at best. The 3-G card hookup was fantastic like for a week and a half then the speed dramatically dropped…classic bait and switch…MTN is rubbish. I haven’t even dared to check my aggregator recently…opening my gmail alone is an achievement.

Anyway, today was a good speed day so I had the chance to check out some new cool social networking apps.

While I was busy having a baby, people have come up with the idea of micro-blogging.

1. Jaiku - (I wonder if this could be used for election reporting? Anyone interested in exploring that?)

2. Twitter

For comparisons of the two, click here and here.

Also worth checking out is Semapedia coming out of Ghana. Check out a review by BBC (nice to see African developers getting the spotlight).

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First, thank you all for your kind words. Have to figure out how to fight off the punks down the road. We are doing well though Mama has to learn how to survive on catnaps since the concept of sleep is out the window.

Still no ADSL at home. I’ve succumbed and got a MTN GPRS3-G card in the meantime…gots to have the internets… hopefully the bill at the of the month won’t be totally outrageous (not holding my breath though).

Some excellent news from Nairobi. My virtual friend, Riyaz Bachani and a few other folks are putting together the first ever Bar Camp Kenya (Nairobi). A BarCamp is “an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.” Think of it as an Open Source (un) conference. For an idea of what goes on, check out the BarCamp Cape Town site.

I hope many of you sign up to attend. I haven’t forgotten about all the brouhaha surrounding the blogging indaba This is a local event, organized by locals so show your support…or stop whining the next time other folks take the initiative.

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