Anyone in Kenya know or use SilverLight4?

Silverlight is a cross platform and a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.

I had asked looking for some inputs on this subject and to get comparisons between java scripters, actions scripters etc but it was a dead end.  With the covergence of desktop and web applications becoming a reality in the near future, you would think that web developers would be opening up to other avenues.

I saw websites that have integrated SilverLight 4 for functionality and they are pretty impessive. I wonder  when such presentations on devices, sites get here?

Learning Windows 7 : I'll be starting a weekly post

Over the next few weeks, I'll be doing writeups on Windows 7.  These will be a collection from various sources and made easy for your quick reference or just a refresher.

The following topics will be covered :

a) Introduction
b) Installation
c) Managing Disks and Windows 7 enviroment
d) Managing users, groups and security
e) Network Connecitivity
f) Maintaining Windows 7
g) Backups and Recovery

Safaricom Innovation Board : Nominations closing 17th August 2010

This news is all over the Kenyan web.

Incase you just came into the picture, AlKags has more details. What I find quite interesting is that such a process by a large corporate as Safaricom is finally opened up to the ICT public in Kenya. Seems they receive about 200 proposal a week from Kenyan innovators and this process is quite difficult to manage. I can only imagine the sheer efforts needed to sort between the serious and the not too serious innovators. There are many categories that innovators could be suggesting proposals on but not having a proper conduit and monitoring system in place to pick the proposals that are truely innovative and also make business sense could effectively ruin any chances for further mobile development and applications.

I believe those who make the process and are appointed to the Board will have their hands full while also not be very popular with local innovators. There are business decisions to be made between viability versus innovation.

We are destined to see a changed Safaricom and an improvement of avenues for local innovators. I'm keen on who gets appointed, whether they really understand innovation and whether Safaricom made the right decision on such appointees.

I nominated someone today who really represents the balance between innovation and business.

Have you nominated someone? If not, please do it here.

The Nokia N900

This mini-computer/mobile set is powered by the Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system, the N900 starts with the sharpest, smoothest web browsing available anywhere.

Though almost a 8 months into production, I still have not seen this handset at any local shops nor price indications.

Full write up in this handset

http://conversations.nokia.com/almanac/nokia-n900/

According to Google, there are 129 million published books out there

To be excat, 129,864,880 is the number of different books out there in the world.

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html

This is quite interesting. Will the number increase? I bet you it will.... :-)