Did social media influence Senegal's presidential election?Senegal is one of West Africa's leaders in telecom infrastructure. But, with an internet penetration rate of barely 16%, you have to wonder if online information resources and social...
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Winch 5
All posts for February 2012
Beirut's Innovative Flyers
What do you do when you're three young Lebanese convinced that your city's streets are being disfigured by people throwing garbage anywhere they want?Yesterday: protest, complain, get mad, leave.Today: Make a Facebook page. And when you see that...
Read moreCan Turkey's "Sour Dictionary" be reproduced elsewhere?
According to professor Ozgür Uçkan of Istanbul Bigli University, "Turkey's major contribution to the internet," goes by the ironic name of "Sour Dictionary," or Ekşi Sözlük. The site has 36,000 authors, and over 10 million entries gathered into...
Read moreInnovation according to PK Gulati, Dubai
PK Gulati is an Indian investor in Dubai, where I met him. Here's his definition of innovation....
Read moreIstanbul, Valentine's Day, Facebook and Fortune Cookies
I took this picture on Sunday in the cafe chain Kitchenette, in Istanbul, the biggest city in the Muslim nation of Turkey.Thirty six hours before Catholics' Saint Valentine's, customers were invited to send a love note to the company's Facebook...
Read moreJOURNAL – A dinner for two dreams
So my daughter suggested that I spend some time on a beach in Mexico to get myself out of the hole she knew I was stuck in. To which I stupidly replied that I wouldn't survive the relaxation. When we got back to the house, we said goodbye, glowing...
Read moreJournal - Winch5 turns one
The Winch5 project was born exactly a year ago, at the end of January 2011. After being away from my family for a few months, I had come back to Berkeley, where my future ex-wife and my daughter, Yara, were.Always generous, her mother had left for...
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