My Top10 Picks… Art, Design, Electrical, Mechanical… The Maker Faire Africa 2010, second edition celebrating African ingenuity, innovation and invention, was held on the 27th and 28th of August. Here are afer highlights of the exciting exhibits on display at the show. 1. Pata Pata Art Pa...

This is the third in a series discovering how nerds, in Nairobi, get their stuff done. You can read the first and second posts if you haven’t. Interesting to note, most have pretty much the same tools accessible to them as those interviewed here. Cool beans, huh? This time we focus on the girl...

“BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.” Date: 12th 1nd 13th September Venue: iHub, Bishop Magua Centre, Ngong Road. Opposite Uc...

As promised, we have two more Nairobi Nerds, spilling the beans on how they get their mambo done… ‘How Nerds Get It Done’ is a series of posts inspired by this one and tries to find out exactly how our local elite (as in ‘tech-elite’) get to pull some awesome fetes, s...

In Nairobi Ever since I read this post on AllKaw, I began wondering how nerds actually get it done… in Nairobi. As I found out, there really wasn’t as big of a difference between ‘them’ and your everyday nerd in Nairobi. Well, not really your everyday nerds, these are. Infac...

I’m yet to post anything about my bookshelf – which is rather in my hard-drive/phone since I seldom read print these days. Since I discovered AudioBooks, I’ve been through quite a few titles and the most recent ones are arguably the most exciting and ‘reads I’ve heard&#...

WannaBeGeek got of the phone with @mbithi who co-directed -with legendary Jim Chuchu the now infamous “Ha-He” music video, by Just-A-Band. The video has literally given “Makmende” a life of his own, with dedicated facebook and twitter account(s), website(s) and even competiti...

Our good friends at Symbiotic Media are looking to shortlist one student who is high on social media to take up a position as a social media intern. The unique mix will be one who writes their own blog, twitters and uses facebook. The gig is for 3 months “full time” with a stipend. To be conside...

Fahali wawili wakipigana, nyasi huumia. “When two bulls fight, the grass suffers.” So goes a Swahili saying, but this time the ‘grass’ is celebrating. Safaricom launched their 7-day unlimited internet offer last week and Orange were quick on their heels two days later. Now th...

Aside from blogs and mailing lists, the Kenyan web scene is somewhat still crawling with little else in terms of dynamic content and services that make the internet indispencable in the west. This is however quickly changing as connecting to the web becomes cheaper. Here are a few niche websites tha...