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  • Interesting Kenyan Sites #11

    Posted: October 31, 2010, 11:29 am by Kelvin

    Stoundi – I had the good fortune to learn of this website from the developers themselves! It looks like it can be something amazing – for one thing, the technology behind it is very advanced (they use artificial intelligence technologies). Basically, this is an “answer engine” and the creators of the site say that they are building it to be able to give you answers to any question you could ever have (to do with local stuff). So, for example, if you wanted to know the Governor of Kiambu county, you would just ask Stoundi and it would return the answer. Nice eh? Good Kenyan technology!

    Simple Motion – if you look at it closely, this site will simple blow you away! It is a news aggregation site built by Kenyans for Kenya. And they use some of the most uniquely amazing technology. For instance, they are the first (and maybe only) company in the world to have videos embedded on maps! (The site is, however, not fully done yet.)

    50-50
    PesaPal – Have a look at this page. It seems that PesaPal has done little SEO, going by the fact that the site’s description in the search results is not optimized. I’m not bashing PesaPal, but why wouldn’t they do this? It takes a minute or so only…

    Flops
    The Office of the Prime Minister – You’d think the site would look as good as the PM’s spanking new offices, eh? Not so. While the design is okay, many links on the site seem not to work. And what are those squares on the home page? I’d expect better from a website of such a ‘large’ office.

    K24 – I do not know what the K24 site even looks like….because they’ve been hacked and cracked. Invest in security, people.

    K24 hacked (click to view larger)

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  • Apologies for Our Downtime

    Posted: October 31, 2010, 8:32 am by wham

    Poleni, readers. On Friday evening, for about two hours, www.likechapaa.com was not available. We were down.

    Why? We got an unexpected surge in visitors to this website and it crashed our servers and brought us down. While we’re excited to get so many visitors, we aren’t excited that our servers crashed. We’re investing in more and bigger servers. Thanks for understanding.Similar Posts:


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