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Synthasite is the work of South African firm incuBeta. It's a web-based application that allows you to build websites without having to know much of anything about HTML.

My Top 10 Web Tools for Bloggers

10 tools for bloggers that have I use daily and make my life easier. From blogbeat to Zookoda - your mileage might vary on what you use, but you owe it to yourself to check these out.

African Micro-Banking: What the "Big" Companies Don't Get

As the mobile telecoms and banks of East Africa try and develop platforms that allow people to tie into their particular system, they end up missing the big picture.

List'd Launches: An Easy, Fast and Free eBay Application!

A very slick and easy to use tool for eBay sellers. List'd is an easy and fast way to put your items on eBay, best of all it's free. That means free image hosting, free scheduled-listings and free templates.

Playpumps

PlayPump is one innovate solution to the question of how to supply clean drinking water to African villages using children while at the same time contributing to their healthy and positive development.

A MAKE Philosphy for Africa — AfriGadget

A new technology and gadget blog launches that is aimed squarely at Africa. AfriGadget.com is all about the unique solutions that Africans come up with to solve their problems. Gadgets for Africa: Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity

Billionaire Businessman: A Tale of Two Startups

Nicholas Ochiel is allowing signups for Cheeseforge, a web-based application for managing your budget(s). What's interesting is that this is an African-based startup - no Silicon Valley footprint here.

African Technology Powerhouses

There are three main areas of web technology innovation in Africa, three regions that define it. They are split geographically, have different focuses and are the recognized technology leaders in their region.

A Web Technology Idea for Africa

I recently talked about how the web can change Africa, and how those of us who I termed the African Digerati, the people with an understanding of Africa and knowledge of technology, are the catalysts of that change.

The Dark Continent: It's Still Dark

Looking at the above maps, one can see that Africa is still dark infrastructurally, technologically and on top of that, the world just doesn't care. What does that mean for Africa and Africans?

OpenOffice, IBM, and Redmond buses

OpenOffice ads in Microsoft's Redmond, WA territory.

Analyzing Real Estate Apps: Redfin.com

Redfin - www.redfin.com Release: Feb 2006 (has been around since 2002) Overview: Automates the process of buying a house online.

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Analyzing Real Estate Apps: Trulia.com

Trulia - www.trulia.com Release: Sep 2005 Overview: Trulia plans to be THE real estate vertical search engine.

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Analyzing Real Estate Apps: Propsmart.com

PropSmart – www.propsmart.com Release: Dec 2005 Overview: Propsmart seems to be no more than a mashup of Google Maps and scraped real estate listings.

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Analyzing Real Estate Apps: PropertyShark.com

PropertyShark - www.propertyshark.com Released: Feb 2006 Overview: Designed primarily for use by appraisers and real estate professionals, provides users with the original data directly from government records, including sales price, mortgage amounts, document images, and owner

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Real Estate Web Apps Explode

The big buzz in real estate this week has been Zillow, the new web-based real estate application that allows you to search and analyze over 60 million homes nationwide.

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