The Kenya United Taxi organisation gave the government 7 days from Tuesday 2nd Feb to remove Uber from Nairobi or they would bring the city to a standstill. This came days after reports began to surface that Uber cars were being attacked by regular taxi drivers in certain areas in the city.The regular taxi drivers claim that Uber is undercharging users and therefore driving them out of business. They also claim that the company is not compliant with government regulations.

The age of streaming is here! In the second week of January, Netflix announced that it had gone, mostly, global. Here in Kenya, the internet, by which I mean Twitter, immediately went wild with people making jokes (Netflix and chill anyone?) and giving opinions on whether it’ll work or not. iAfrikan itself had a post on the matter authored by Arthur Mwai, and it also discussed the topic at length on African Tech Roundup the companion podcast to the site, and an awesome listen, which was hosted by Andile, Tefo and their guest Emeka Okoye.

Tech blogs in Kenya suck! It’s something I’ve said before in other platforms and fora. I knew it empirically but didn’t have the hard data to back me up. I do now.

Let’s get into why I’m the right person to be talking about this:

• I’ve been reading tech news on an almost daily basis for more than 8 years now
• I’ve been following the local tech scene almost as long.
• I have a degree in Computer Science.
• I’m a part of the ecosystem.
• I have the skills to do this analysis
• I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, almost a year

While it’s entirely possible to analyse more than one blog I decided to do only one as a sample. The blog I choose for this is Kachwanya because:

Hey guys I’m at the ihub for the Barcamp Nairobi and today I’m going to attempt a live blog. It’s lunch time now and there no talks going on now but they begin in 10 mins keep this page open for updates. Catch you in 10 mun

Talking with Andrew from Ujamaa Ventures giving me advice on my application’the one I’ve been developing the last 3 months, hard questions with no answers :D
Now on the talk on Innovation Ecosystem by Tony
We’re trying to shine on our own yet we need to work together
Things we need to do

This is my tribute to the greatness that is Google; a company I love and want to work for one day because they’re such an integral part of my internet experience. Some I’d like to outline the reasons for my adoration of Google.

The Search Engine

Firstly (and obviously) is the search engine. This is the core part of their business; bringing in over 90% of their revenue despite several efforts to diversify. It has helped me research assignments, blog posts and find cool stuff on the internet. If I want to find something online I ask Google first before anything else and since I’ve been using it as me (meaning logged in) for over 6 years now, it almost always knows what I’m asking for and delivers it first.