observers calling the tournament the biggest event in Web history.
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Google starts a TV white space trial in South Africa to wirelessly link schools - 0 views
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Google is spearheading efforts into more connectivity globally. It will be interesting to follow what implications arise.
South Africans Race BMWs on Outdoor Projection Screens - Adrants - 0 views
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Over eight nights in major cities across South Africa, interactive agency iLogic created large projections of race tracks to promote the BMW 1 Series. Passersby could sign up with promoters to race BMWs on projected screens by logging into Facebook on a tablet.
BMW Lets You Race A Virtual Car Up The Side Of A Building @PSFK - 0 views
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Projection mapping/tablet/facebook from BMW South Africa
Toyota RAV4: Outdoor Website | Digital Buzz Blog - 0 views
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Toyota Africa created an outdoor website -- pretty neat!
I Believe in Advertising | ONLY SELECTED ADVERTISING | Advertising Blog &... - 1 views
Music From Saharan Cellphones - PSFK - 0 views
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daily 10.21 mix tapes made from music on abandoned cellphones in africa
Famine in East Africa Draws Attention of Tech & Entertainment All-Stars - 1 views
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campaign that is partnering with top musicians to spread the video/mp3 along. collective reach of over 1 billion people
Let's Not Do Lunch. Let's Feed Starving Africans - Adrants - 0 views
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Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners has launched a social media fund raising effort called Let's Not Do Lunch which aims to capture money otherwise spent on lunch. The effort hopes to raise £1 million for famine relief in East Africa.
Data point: North Africans are fans of brands, especially international ones | JWT Inte... - 0 views
Giant Soda Bottle Sets Sail On The Atlantic - 2 views
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The bottle is equipped with solar panels, tracking technology and cameras that upload a picture of the surroudings every eight hours. Fans can track its progress on Facebook (it is currently off the coast of Africa) and guess where it will end up.
Beer Drones to Deliver Brew to Concertgoers - 0 views
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Yes please.... Thirsty music festivalgoers in South Africa this summer may be able to get beer instantly delivered to them - via drones.
On the Web, World Cup victories more popular than Obama's victory - CNN.com - 0 views
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The tournament has surpassed the historic election of President Obama, which held that honor until now
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According to Akamai, a content delivery network, the Web peaked at more than 12 million users per minute just two hours after the kickoff between South Africa and Mexico. By comparison, about 8.5 million people were logging on per minute the November evening that Obama was elected in 2008.
Could the World Cup's Legacy Be Universal Education? - GOOD Education - GOOD - 0 views
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president of South Africa wants universal edu for the whole continent and rest of developing world daily 7.13
Guest Post: Could Tiny Somaliland Become the First Cashless Society? - 1 views
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Thanks to a cobbled together-by-necessity system of money-transfer posts from Somaliland’s diaspora and a surging mobile banking industry, the country has to do away with cash.
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Selesom, the major mobile carrier has launched a service where cash is completely bypassed. Mobile banking in Africa is nothing new and is far more advanced in the West or Asia, but Somaliland can take this to a further level
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In less than six months more than 80,000 people in Hargesia have signed up with Selesom for its ZAAD mobile money service for money transfers
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Solaliland (not a formally recognized country with non-formally-recognized currency) will be the first country to extinguish cash they have no ATMs, locals think credit cards are ridiculous really interesting
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Agency apologises for 'body parts' ad - 1 views
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Ogilvy got some criticism for a campaign ostensibly advertising body parts for sale. It was actually a movie promo.
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