Comments on: African News: Mapped

By: thakadu

thakadu — Sun, 28 May 2006 14:08:25 +0000

Thanks for your comments Lawrence. I didnt know about http://afrikupdates.crispynews.com! It looks great. Keep an eye aout for Zangu (you can sign up right now to be a beta tester). At Zangu we hope to take the social bookmarking ideas in Muti and Crispynews to complete new level.

Regards

By: lawrence

lawrence — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:07:26 +0000

This is simply awesome. Great job, Thakadu. i can hardly wait to see the result of adding flickr and the basic facts per country. By the way, i had never heard about Muti till i saw it above on one of the comments! There is something similar at http://afrikupdates.crispynews.com. Check it out!

By: HASH

HASH — Fri, 26 May 2006 02:42:37 +0000

Mental, thanks for the compliments, but this one is really all Thakadu. He had the idea and did all the work on News Map. I’m just happy to be working on Zangu with such a guy.

By: Mentalacrobatics

Mentalacrobatics — Fri, 26 May 2006 00:26:17 +0000

Flipping brilliant. Web 2.0 kweli. Let me forward this to all my friends now.
You guys are really raising the bar, again and again.

By: Black Looks

Black Looks — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:34:25 +0000

[…] To mark the day, I found a couple of posts from White African who continues with his mission to network Africa – The first is “News Map” which isnt just Africa but for the purposes of this post that is all I am concerned with. It’s a map of Africa and you click on any country to get that country’s news: […]

By: HASH

HASH — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:17:07 +0000

Having the country flag is a nice touch.

By: White African :: where africa and technology collide » Blog Archive » African News for Africans by Africans - Zangu News Beta Signups Begin

Thu, 25 May 2006 15:11:22 +0000

[…] Many of you either know about, or have read, the paper I wrote called A Web Technology Idea for Africa back in March. Since that time, I’ve been working with Thakadu of Muti and News Map fame to develop the news portion of that idea – it drives our focus. […]

By: thakadu

thakadu — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:50:08 +0000

Leser (http://vry.blogsome.com) has been assisting me with getting the country flag to display in the right hand news content box. Thanks Gerhard!

By: HASH

HASH — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:21:46 +0000

Flickr would be a neat addition. I also think your idea of putting some basic “facts” about the country being highlighted makes sense as well.

The trick will be to pick the right mashup material without cluttering up the experience.

By the way, all the kind words are well deserved.

By: thakadu

thakadu — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:56:37 +0000

Hi Hash

Thanks for your kind words about News Map. I am hoping that this can eventually be somehow incorporated into the Zangu vision. I will be making public another version soon that also incorporates photos relevant to the country from Flickr. (www.flickr.com) If any of your readers have any other ideas I would love to hear from them.

Regards