I agree with you. I meant the same thing, but the words wont come out, i dont think in english. sort of like java and the virtual machine environment. On 19/05/2009, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I disagree with you, and what David said. There were plenty of social networking sites before Facebook e.g. MySpace. Facebook found a way to innovate features that would keep
1. People coming back 2. Spreading
That is the ticket. Innovation. You can't just re-package facebook and expect similar success.
If users don't come back to your site the problem is not the users! It's the site.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Gladiatus actually aroused interest in their website by introducing a product in swahili language. Note that it arouses interest since it is a product that many Kenyans have not used / is new to them. As for social sites, facebook is already there, and most of our friends are in facebook. Tht is the challenge of trying to come up with a new social site. A person weighing in their options acatually finds it is more favourable for them to stay and keep using facebook!
On 19/05/2009, David Mugo <raidarmax@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Interesting. In 2004, I was running a social network that was crowded for the first 3 months and people have no loyalty to their own. If you ask me to put up anything in swahili to make it look local, you are actually telling me to loose the little traffic i have. I have ran http://dearkenya.comfor a about 3 years, decided to brand it to something different because i gave up on the kenyan audience. We are yet to train our audience. We are innovative, swahili doesnt make us any more...
FYI...no one ever wrote an email on this forum in swahili.
David.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
A glaring indicator that we as the Kenyan ICT fraternity seem to be consumers rather than innovators.
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A foreign company went ahead and localized its content for he region. meanwhile the call for the local ICT crowd to "develop local content" continues. This bold and *gladiatory *move will now carve out market base for its own in the East African Region. What do you guys think of this move by Gladiatus? -- Bored? Stop been Bored. why are u still Bored? visit my blog http://gramware.blogspot.com Get your free issue of tekniaonline, a Kenyan ICT magazine at http://tekniaonline.blogspot.com
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