Do users first generate content, or does content draw in users?

Twitter provides individuals from all walks of life to communicate in a public forum. Twitter Search is a powerful tool that saves the past 6 days of tweets and allows users to browse on keyword or hashtag. Of course, we must remember that tweets are often intended as offhand/pithy/poorly constructed …

Futures of Technology in Africa, a book recently authored by Jasper Grosskurth and published by STT Netherlands Centre of Technology Trends, comes after three years and hundreds of conversations on the subject of African technology. The results touch on the dynamic nature of African economies, business, infrastructure, mobile, energy, and …

The generic password is not a uniquely African problem by any means, but is an area where Africa can potentially leapfrog the rest of the world. However, the task of imposing complex passwords is far from easy. For one, what good is a password when the user cannot remember it? …

Eventually, the JPEG may head the way of the GIF, at least if Google has its way with its Webp (pronounced “weppy”) format. Last week, the company publicly unveiled a new compressed image format that could perhaps replace the gold standard that is JPEG. But, such a takeover will take …

600 applicants
40 hailed from South Africa
3 of 23 semi-finalists were from South Africa
0 of 12 finalists are African start-ups