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01 Feb 2011

SWAT Week in Tech (WIT) – 24-28 January 2011

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• Tencent launches a $759 million fund for online games. The fund is aimed at acquiring new sources of revenue growth in the online gaming market. Tencent, the sole investor in the fund, wishes to reinforce its position as a major Chinese virtual services provider. http://bit.ly/h4yCfW

• Nokia partners with Tencent and SINA. The partnership is aimed at using Tencent and SINA’s vast online community to bring location-based services (check-ins and recommendations) to Nokia’s Ovi maps. The partnership forms a strategic base for Nokia to create partnerships with established brands to extend services which has already taken off in the US. http://bit.ly/dHUyYD

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02 Nov 2009

The State of Javascript

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Douglas Crockford wrote in a 2001 article that javascript was the world’s most misunderstood programming language. In another article, from 2008, he explains why: “Its obvious defects, its unfashionable programming model, intentional mispositioning at its introduction, and its ridiculous name caused it to be rejected as unworthy by most knowledgeable programmers”. And then, he recognizes: there was AJAX. And AJAX gave javascript a second chance.

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17 Aug 2009

HTML 5

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HTML 5 is the next major revision of the core markup language of the World Wide web, HTML, and will replace both HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 (after W3C announced it will discontinue further development of XHTML 2).

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26 Jan 2009

Language of the Web

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Answer me quick: “What is the language of the web?”

Ok, how many of you answered with the name of a programming language? How many shouted out PHP, Ruby, Python or something similar? This is not that kind of post – I am not trying to start a religious war amongst the supporters of our beloved languages (not in this post at least…)

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08 Oct 2008

Our Web has no future in Africa

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There is much talk about the coming of the Web to Africa. Much of it completely misdirected, in my opinion. The web has already arrived in Africa – there was simply very little uptake.

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