Once in a while I let my left side of the brain do the thinking and this post is just one of those products. Never mind my total disregard of the meaning of the word technology and my being narrow-minded to only have it mean a few web pages, apps and social sites. My madness is … Read More …
Fancy a new home? Perhaps you’re not homeless per se but are just an avid fan of poking and endless chit chat coupled with a high affinity for “liking” everything. Well, Facebook has something that you’ll like: Home. Facebook Home is what the social networking giant hopes will eventually get every one of their current … Read More …
When on 19th of last month the Tweetdeck team announced improvements to Tweetdeck’s web presence and it’s Google Chrome app no one smelt a rat or least of all thought that the worst would come to Tweetdeck’s popular Android, iPhone and desktop Adobe Air applications a few days later. Yet that is what exactly happened … Read More …
Yesterday was Friday and you must have spotted many “stray” tweets, those we easily call “drunk tweets”. If you didn’t see them then I am not sure who you follow over there in the expansive Twitterverse but you need to follow the right people. I did not know to what extent this drinking and texting … Read More …
As Kenya inches closer to the big date in 2013 when it will go to polls to decide on who the leaders at the devolved government and central government level will be, InMobi, the largest independent mobile network in the world, recently conducted a research on the upcoming elections and how the voter and the … Read More …
Today, 8th June 2012, marks the 2nd anniversary of my “humble” Twitter account @echenze. My first Twitter account which is currently inactive and will be used by my pet dog for tweeting soon will turn 4 this August 29th. I believe that that time is enough for me to have learnt a few crucial lessons … Read More …
Well this is random. When a prominent media personality in the name of Kiss 100 breakfast show host Caroline Mutoko went overboard in her description of social media users in Kenya as numbskulls and what have you, we were the first to throw tantrums at her and totally criticize her for her misgivings about the … Read More …
In Kenya, like I noted in my blogpost on a scathing attack on Kenyans on social media, the social media atmosphere is dominated by young people who use it for various purposes. The majority of users in most social media platforms are college-going or about to join college or just left college.Whether this increased usage … Read More …
I always do a recap of the best reads of the week in the Kenyan blogosphere using my self-initiated trend, #BlogRoll. Well, I love reading what other bloggers have to say on various happenings in our country and also on what emerges online and to an extent globally. Last Friday I was seemingly reading the … Read More …
The tweefs, the EPL chants, the misplaced subtweets and the crazy TTs (not titties you perv) all have summed up to make the small Kenyan Twitter population stand out not only continental wise but globally. As a tweep aptly put it, “some kid growing up in New Hampshire and Denver surely knows that Kenya is … Read More …
A quick look at the Kenyan Twitterverse today shows two trends. There has been #AlfredMutua which did trend due to the ignorance of a government officer who believes that the government is always right even when its evident the opposite is true. Of course the other trending topic was #Kenyans4Kenya which I link with it’s … Read More …
That social media is big in Kenya is no doubt. That it has changed the lives of many Kenyans is clearly visible. Today is Social Media Day in Kenya and although most mainstream media houses have shunned publicizing the day, it did not go unnoticed. Twitter was buzzing with #SMdayKE and #SocialMediaDayKenya tweets from the … Read More …
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