I am not worried because I know, only the best will ultimately survive. So let the race begin! 🙂

It will be very interesting to see where the Africa blogosphere will be in 2 more years. If conventional media channels are not able to adapt to the demands of todays reading audience my prediction is that the Africa bloggers will more than fill the void.

Has, excellent write up!

I’ve already discussed it with the parties concerned and we all agree that collaboration in this can only benefit the community so here’s hoping for a good relationship with them.

What I am looking forward to is more online solutions from other countries. Where is Mali or Angola? That would be nice. Or is it that they are there but non-English sites?

As David stated, I agree that there is room for creation of inventions as this. What matters is how each entity differentiates itself. In addition, the emergence of Afrigator (and those before it) helps keep the creative juice flowing. So expect more in the nearest future.

Hat-tip to the brains behind these developments.

My observations:

There is room for more verticals, especially one that categorizes on subject matter – politics, business, technology etc.

Generally, I don’t buy the much-talked about rating functionality; I’ve never believed strongly in their fidelity, after all Digg – the originator of this system, has demonstrated it’s prone to abuse.

Re: your last point. I’m not the techie so accept my slowness. Afrigator will always be an opt-in service and users will always have control over whether we aggregate their content or not. Yes, we are mining valuable data, but we hope that the value we offer balances the intrusion required. Plus we hope to use that data to improve the state of the blogosphere for everyone, especially from an awareness point of view.

reason? just can’t beat simplicity and lack of clutter