Kenya’s top websites – February March 2, 2009
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After a short break the Kenya monthly top twenty web listings are back and the details are alarming at the least!
- Nation.co.ke – same old same old
- East African Standard – same old numner 2
- Rich.co.ke – kenyan investors are worried about the goings on at the NSE. I hope they are finding the encouragement they need with Satchu
- Bdafrica.com – No 2 of 6 nation media websites in the top 18. Amazing!
- Intokenya.com – What’s your name again?
- Haiya.co.ke – Haiya!
- Safaricom.co.ke – making up for poor customer service by going online . .. I like!
- Drum.co.ke – Is it me who doesn’t understand or is there nothing on your site?
- Yu.co.ke – one page for people to book their numbers! Nice flash on the banner – I like!
- Daily Nation and Sunday Nation – old empty homepage. Are you really that popular?
- Kenya Airways – mhmhhm
- Stockskenya.com – Where did richboy pass you by?
- AccessKenya.com – How? How? How?
- Yrafrica.com – Siamini
- Mysticalafrica.com – mmhmhm
- Kenyaonetours.com – mhmhm
- Wananchi Online – Nice!
- University of Nairobi – Welcome to the top category – hope you can keep up … having looked at your new homepage I know you can make it.
Kenya’s top websites – January 2009 January 17, 2009
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The new year is here and expected the Kenyan websphere is banging!
- Nation.co.ke ;
Same old. same old - East African Standard
same old. same old. - Rich.co.ke
Moving up nicely. … Where is your sibling: richlive.co.ke? - Safaricom.co.ke
If you were not safaricom you wouldn’t be here now, would you? - Bdafrica.com
The number of websites eyeing your position are as many as the sands of the ocean! - Kenya Airways
Keep on keeping up - Softlinkoptions.com
How? how? how? - Haiya.co.ke
mhmhm - AccessKenya
I still dont understand - Yu.co.ke
After all that advertising? where is the one bob offer that Kenyans were expecting to get from you? - Mashada Discussions
All kenyans who hate other tribes meet here. - Orange.co.ke
Pssst! You are looking good. - Examscouncil.or.ke
It is that season of the year. I was online when the education minister announced the kcpe results 2008. he said that the results would be made available online immediately after he finished talking and it was exactly like that! Congratlations. Next you need to get that shao design! - Mysticalafrica.com
mhmhm - Kenyaonetours.com
mhmhm - Swift Global
Annother accesskenya case. How? who visits web service providers websites banyway? - Intokenya.com
Am watcing you!
ZUQKA.COM Review December 17, 2008
Posted by Mutongoria in IT, entertainment, news.Tags: aggregate, content, drupal, feeds, haiya.co.ke, review, zuqka.com
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ZUQKA.COM Reviewed
Given it was the first website in Kenya to be advertised ont he front page of the country’s leading newspaper. that is a success for all of us web industry professionals.
So i’ve been checking it out there really isn’ t much to say for zuqka.com
First – it went down in its very first day – imagine that! and wiht the advertisng on the front page of the nation daily newspaper and a 16-page pullout! I bet the manager at nation who negotiated the deal is in hot water as we speak.
Then its stayed down for some days. Sorry no screen shots but we all got to know that they use the Centos Operationg system whose websites is bla bla bla and support can be acquired from …..
It gets scary when even the place holder crashes. The messsge they had that “This party is not yet started; leave your email and we will inform you when it starts”. even that crashed!!
Now it seems that their party has strated and well … there isn’t much to it. They have made an interesting implementation of drupal with the blogging module and an aggregator from blogs that has a tendency to loeave you hanging. That, not nice!
Content might become a serious issue for these guys. Its will be really really difficult to convince the Nation Media group to let them host their content. Most companies have very serious policies on hosting of content and I cant wait to see what options Zuqka will explore. The other option is to agregate from feeds all over the place and that raises countless issues. they will have to link to the source of the feeds – the blogs, news sites etc. That lowers their page rank. They will post content that has been previosly been posted elsewhere on the web and that will build the profile of the original poster of the content.
i think zuqka will find it hard to compete with haiya.co.ke.
I think that natioon is already thinking about how to implement its own Zuqka.com alternative.
for all kenyans : the night out levels November 4, 2008
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This is from facebook, a friend of mine wrote it. its the funniest thing I’ve read in ages
PEOPLE::: FOR YA’LL WHO GET DERAILED
LEVEL 1:
It’s 11:00 on a weeknight, you’ve had a few beers.You get up to leave because you have work the next day and one of your friends buys another round. Usually one of your UNEMPLOYED friends. Here at level one you think to yourself, “Oh come on, this is silly, why as long as I get seven hours of sleep (snap fingers), I’m cool.”
LEVEL 2:
It’s midnight. You’ve had a few more beers. You’ve just spent 20 minutes arguing AGAINST test tube babies. You get up to leave again, but at level two, a little devil appears on your shoulder. And now you’re thinking, “Hey! I’m out with my friends! What am I working for anyway? These are the good times! Besides, as long as I get five hours sleep (snaps fingers) I’m cool.”
LEVEL 3:
1:00 AM in the morning.
You’ve abandoned beer for tequila.
You’ve just spent 20 minutes arguing FOR test tube babies. And now you’re thinking, “Our waitress is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen!” At level three, you love the world. On the way to the bathroom you buy a drink for the stranger at the end of the bar just because you like his(her) face. You get drinking fantasies. (like,”Hey guys, if we bought our own bar, we could live together forever. We could do it. Tom, you could cook.”) But at level three, that devil is a little bit bigger….and he’s buying. And you’re thinking, “Oh, come on, come on now. As long as I get three hours sleep…and a complete change of blood (snaps fingers), I’m cool.”
LEVEL 4:
2:00 AM in the morning. And the devil is bartending. For last call(round), you order a 750 bottle of VODKA and some Coke. You ARE THE MAN! This time on your way to the bathroom, you punch(slap) the stranger at the end of the bar, just because you don’t like his face! And now you’re thinking, “Our secretary(driver) is the best looking lady(dude) I’ve ever seen.” You and your friends decide to leave, right after you get thrown out, and one of you knows an after hours bar.(Why in hells fury does one get to know these joints?) And here, at level four, you actually think to yourself, “Well….as long as I’m only going to get a few hours sleep anyway, I may as well….STAY UP ALL NIGHT!!!! Yeah! That’d be good for me. I don’t mind going to that board meeting looking like I have a vein for an eye!. Yeah, I’ll turn that around, make it work for me. And besides, as long as I get 31 hours sleep tomorrow ……………….cool.”
LEVEL 5:
5:00 AM in the morning
You and your friends wind up in a shady local bar with guys who have been from upcountry as recently as that morning and look like like the Talibani n they wouldn’t mind adopting your head!. It’s the kind of place where even the devil is going, “Uh, I gotta head home . I gotta be in Hell-at nine. I’ve got that breakfast with Hitler, I can’t miss that.” At this point, you’re all drinking some kind of thick black liquor-probably some brand Uv NEVER seen before-a special for this local, definately looks and tastes like something from a Voodoo convention. A waitress with a fresh black eye comes over, and you think to yourself, “Someday I’m gonna marry that girl!!” One of your friends stands up and screams, “WE’RE DRIVIN’ TO S.A.!!!!”- and passes out.
You crawl outside for air , and then you hit the worst part of level five-THE SUN. You weren’t expecting that were you? You never do. You walk out of a bar in daylight, and you see people on their way to work. And they look at you and they know.
Let’s be honest, if you’re 19-26 and you stay up all night, it’s like a victory-like you’ve beaten the night, but if you’re over 30, then that sun is like God’s flashlight.
We all say the same prayer then, “I swear, I will NEVER do this again (how long?) as long as I live!” And some of us have the guts to include that little line, “and this time, I mean it