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Afrigator, raises the game for other social media aggregators
Afrigator, the social media aggregator for Africa has raised the game when it comes to web 2.0. They have added a feature that allows you to automatically import your blogroll as friends.
Buzzfuse, content marketing and promotion?
Buzzfuse, a South African based internet startup is a promotion engine for your content. The features are a mix between social bookmarking where popular content is promoted to the home page, an aggregator of media, social networking and they also throw in some reporting and stats.
Kerawa, Classified ads for Africa
Kerawa a new website that is currently in Beta, offers free classifieds and aims to cover all of Africa. The site is available in French as well, which makes it more accessible. The ads are split by country, city and categories. You can place an ad with out registration, just a simple confirmation via [...]
Blueworld Social Network, launches free classifieds
Blueworld, the South African social network have launched free classifieds. The site allows you to post a classified ad without any registration, which is always a good thing since it is quick and easy. You may filter posts based on regions, as well as topics like cars, jobs and they even have a category [...]
Foodcreations, Social networking for chefs?
Foodcreations, is a ’social networking’ web site for food lovers, cooks and chef’s. Now it has very rudimentary social networking features each user gets a basic profile, you can add a friends and send messages. In addition you can share recipes, add your favorite recipes to your profile and review recipes that were posted. This [...]
Blueworld, South Africa’s social network goes mobile
Blueworld now has a mobile version of the social networking site. The mobile site is lightweight and lets you view and respond to messages. The site also has a feature called ‘MINI’ blogs which is very much like twitter. Additional features included news headlines from sites like News24 and access to events posted [...]
Afrigator, Africa’s Social Media Aggregator Beta 2 Launch
Afrigator, the African social media aggregator has launched beta version 2 of their web site. The home page has been given an overhaul, now with tabs splitting content by Recent, Most Clicked and popular. In addition to this you get a custom tab which lets you customize the home page and view only [...]
Frogfoot Wifi, Everyone can earn money
Frogfoot, are not just happy settling for a cool name and a funky logo, they now offer just about anyone to own a WIFI hotspot and bill customers while at the same time offering agents who refer wifi operators a chance to earn commission. Everyone gets a slice of the pie. Technically, frogfoot is not [...]
South African Social News Round Up - laaikit vs muti
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laaikit the new kid in the social news/bookmarking space by News24 was launched late last year. They have all the typical features you would expect for a social news site such as voting up/down and comments. The categories under which sites can be classified are exactly like the news24 site. [...]
Sturvs, Social bookmarking for Nigeria with a twist
Sturvs, Nigerias answer to digg, is a social bookmarking web site with a bit of a twist. Sturv is the colloquial word for ’stuff’ in Nigeria and thanks to Loy at startupsnigeria for the tip. You can view sturvs classified under ‘Hot’ and ‘Latest’. The home page also has two small boxes on [...]
