Innovation stirs me. Innovation can take many forms, review this page.
This morning i woke up to some interesting news. I love technology business news. M$ buys 1.6% stake in Facebook
The stake price of $240 million, should be more than enough to pay for Facebook's ambitious expansion plans until the privately held company goes public.
Facebook is an innovative online social networking site born in a university dorm room by Mark Zuckerberg.
I grapple with many ideas and i think its the high time i analyzed the success stories of some of these technological concepts of innovation. Its only fair to learn from those who have succeeded. One point though is that there are lots of chances for this in Africa.
I personally feel that this will best happen with respect to the widespread use of mobile devices especially the phone. Anyone thinking about services on the mobile platform should probably pay keen attention to the OpenMoko GNU / Linux based open software development platform.
Innovations round the web and mobile platforms are a sure bet for success. Of course two questions that any innovation will need to answer is relevance and adaptability and you are sure to win. That is where great challenges will emanate at the same time great success stories depending.
Lets explore and see how our ideas qualify... happy innovation
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
As I Started Out
Today is 10th October 2007 and in Kenya this is a public holiday. I was just going through my mails and i get this email that said ´Using Blogs To Attract Attention (Without Having Your Own)´.
I was recently chatting with my lawyer and he said to me, come on, ¨get yourself a blog¨. I gave it a thought and concluded there was no good reason not to start one.
Now these two incidents led me to blogspot.com and immediately started creating one. I spend at least 15 hours daily on the Internet and kept postponing this action but i guess i will have a great way to remember this public holiday.
Getting a name for my blog was not easy. I tried a few English names that i liked but were not available. Then i rushed to one of my shelves and retrieved a title ¨1000 Kikuyu Proverbs¨, got a few ideas but only Google could sort me out. I looked up for a Gîkûyû glossary and found one that worked.
So what is rugongo, rugongo is a Gîkûyû term meaning ¨A ridge lying between two rivers in Gîkûyû country. Ridges were often formally recognized territorial units sharing similar social obligations.¨
I feel a bit odd at this point, i am a Gîkûyû/Kikuyu and had lots of trouble getting an id for my blog in my mother tongue. Now i hope to use this blog to discuss my thoughts and promote this language which is extremely rich. Only through this can i better my now very diluted Gîkûyû..
Time to break now as i find out over the days how well i can keep up on this journey.. I have heard
¨Having your own blog is hard work. Not only do you have to create it, but you also have to market it. People won't read it otherwise. And that's partially why 60% of bloggers have not updated their blogs in the last 60 days. They often don't properly market their blog and they end up talking to themselves. T.... BY: Elge Premeau¨
I was recently chatting with my lawyer and he said to me, come on, ¨get yourself a blog¨. I gave it a thought and concluded there was no good reason not to start one.
Now these two incidents led me to blogspot.com and immediately started creating one. I spend at least 15 hours daily on the Internet and kept postponing this action but i guess i will have a great way to remember this public holiday.
Getting a name for my blog was not easy. I tried a few English names that i liked but were not available. Then i rushed to one of my shelves and retrieved a title ¨1000 Kikuyu Proverbs¨, got a few ideas but only Google could sort me out. I looked up for a Gîkûyû glossary and found one that worked.
So what is rugongo, rugongo is a Gîkûyû term meaning ¨A ridge lying between two rivers in Gîkûyû country. Ridges were often formally recognized territorial units sharing similar social obligations.¨
I feel a bit odd at this point, i am a Gîkûyû/Kikuyu and had lots of trouble getting an id for my blog in my mother tongue. Now i hope to use this blog to discuss my thoughts and promote this language which is extremely rich. Only through this can i better my now very diluted Gîkûyû..
Time to break now as i find out over the days how well i can keep up on this journey.. I have heard
¨Having your own blog is hard work. Not only do you have to create it, but you also have to market it. People won't read it otherwise. And that's partially why 60% of bloggers have not updated their blogs in the last 60 days. They often don't properly market their blog and they end up talking to themselves. T.... BY: Elge Premeau¨
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