Africa, Blogging, Cape Town, Innovation, Open Source Web
Your Web AddiCT(s); were fortunate to meet some Internet Legends, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (pic on the right) and Prof. Larry Lessig of Creative Commons on Friday at the iCommons ccSalon at the Armchair Theatre in Observatory. We asked Jimmy Wales & Prof Larry Lessig about TED as they are both TEDsters. They both raved [...]
One of the world’s leading advocates of the open source software movement, Brian Bahlendorf gave a talk at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape on Thursday, entitled “Ten things you may not know about open source”. Open Source predates proprietary software Apache kept the Web flat and free Open SSL [...]
Africa, Blogging, Open Source Web
We got this Trackback from from the mawazo na mahaidha blog on the Blogging is Dead ‘mashup’ Help translate it please. alianza kwa kusema Hip Hop is Dead kisha wanablogu wa Afrika Kusini wakamnukuu kwa undani sana na Blogging is dead sasa kati ya watu wote wale mwandishi Paul Graham – yule aliyetufunza mengi kuhusu [...]
Google, Open Source Web, Social Media
Charl van Niekerk has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code. Here is a little snip of his application. Find out more at Charl’s blog. Congrats Congrats Congrats Charl! Currently, the web can be a real challenge to those living with disabilities. Screen readers, Braille displays and other accessibility tools convey data but yet [...]
As you already know Dell made a little oops on their website with the free notebooks. They put the 2.0 tools in place to listen to what you & I have to say. Dell have started to listen, they’re about to launch a new range of notebooks running some flavour of Linux, Ubuntu, SuSE, Red [...]
Innovation, Open Source Web, Social Media
TED Talks everywhere Originally uploaded by Rafiq Phillips. Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales’ TEDTalk at the New Media presentation at UCT Graduate School of Business.
Dell revealed today that it will be releasing select desktop and notebook systems with pre-installed Linux as an option in the coming weeks. These will be real, live Linux systems that you’ll be able to call up and order, just like any other Dell product, according to the article. No word on what distributions will [...]
It seems pointless seeking ideas and feedback if you ’re going to ignore and delete the ones you don’t like. That’s exactly what Dell is doing with its IdeaStorm web site, which has been set up by the company to solicit ideas and feedback. It deleted a post that linked to an article that criticized [...]
Africa, Blogging, Open Source Web
Hi Rafiq, Saw your interview on whiteafrican.com- nice! Am just dropping you a line to see how things are going. And to ask, if you have a spare moment, to check out the newly redesigned and developed iblog.co.za. I notice that the k53 blog hasn’t been updated in a while and was wondering whether that’s [...]
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