Facebook has lasted longer than Alexander the Great's Empire

The greatest Macedonian o, a man so great, he literally made the word part of his name? Alexander the Great came to the throne in 336 BC and immediately set off on a campaign of conquest. He held control of Greece, sacked Persia, claimed Egypt, and seized territory as far away as modern India. Yet it was all for nothing. From its tentative first moments to its final, dying breath, Alexander’s empire lasted less than a decade. By the standards of the time, this was spectacularly poor. The Roman and Mauryan Empires all started around the same time and lasted centuries. The trouble was that Alexander made no contingency plan in case of his death. When he died from a fever in 323 BC, his generals had no interest in cooperating to secure their new...

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#moless Kenyan Social Media Craze

We only recently got stung by the social media bug. Kenya only recently got social media crazy. Its has been building up over time with Facebook but now its like a flood of social media craze with all age groups participating and not just the youths.  With the advent of what’s app platform , Twitter and the ease of anonymity on Facebook. We have all been overwhelmed by social media. Kenyans post every single thought that passes through their minds. With little or no care on the repercussion of their online actions. It’s becoming a social media crazed society.Cheaper internet and cheap internet enabled Chinese phones. Have all contributed to a wave in our country where personal thoughts and deeds are not...

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Death to drunk driving

  Google the technological giant has been working on a driverless car that will save people from the scurge of drunk drivers. The Google driverless cars have been in testing for over 2 years. Legistation was passed in some states in the US to allow testing the cars in their roads with a driver having to still behind the wheel just incase they need to take over control from the computer. Google says this is just a formality and the cars don’t require intervention . So we await for the day they are finaly in production and they roam free in every street in every city. Cars have been automating continously . Now cars relly heavily on technology to control most of its systems. It has sensors for everything from automatic bracking to controling...

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I Yahooed it

Yahoo was once a fore runner of the internet with Yahoo search , Yahoo Mail, Yahoo directory. It revolutionised the internet. We all now reap their past success.   Every one who goes online has an email address for free forever. All thanks to Yahoo.  They have aquired a large list of companies They survived the dot com bubble. It pioneered web commuter workers. Who wouldnt love to work at home and get a pay check still. But now their webmail interface is the slowest. Their searches lag way behind Google in a shameful way.They dont headline any news. But that was before Microsoft made a merger deal with the conglomerate. Now we await a real change in strategy in its ways event though it had some issues. With imput from Microsoft...

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