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I love goats. Out of curiosity, would you be willing to share how well goat attack packs have been selling?

The point is that by addressing the non-US markets, WhatsApp helped their position everywhere -- including the US.

You only need one friend you care about using a Blackberry or Nokia for it to matter though. The long tail matters when it comes to communication.

The phone number as an id is a very important component to their adoption indeed. So do you posit that WhatsApp's adoption rates being what they are (compared to say Viber which do…

They aren't paying for a J2ME app and the requisite testing. They are paying for the results of the network effect made possible by it.

Unless everybody switches, few will switch. Network effects also create some pretty powerful stickiness.

That's not really an option at all, at least not to your house. At the kLab we have a 15Mbps line allocated for us, but the realities of oversea (well, undersea) bandwidth purchase…

We'd love to have the .com, but it's not in the cards. But ya, we chose the India TLD for exactly the reason you suspect.. text it in.

I just renewed mine this week without any trouble, but of course YMMV.

As I'm sure you already know, gay rights have a long, long way to go in the region. If I were gay, it probably wouldn't be at the top of my list :(

I've certainly heard some of that, but I don't think it applies quite as much to tech entrepreneurs -- and I've seen more evidence of that in say, Kenya. If you are coming here to …

I don't know how common these sort of visas are the world over, but Chile also has a pretty innovative approach to attracting tech entrepreneurs. http://startupchile.org/

Rwanda has a classification specifically for technology entrepreneurs. It's a 3-year visa and if you are a qualified software practitioner, I don't foresee you having difficulty ge…

I don't have a lot of experience for what school is like generally, but I can speak about it from an ex-pat's perspective. Our kids go to a Rwandan school (though a prestigious pri…

Kids are 7 and 9. But Nic is spot on above. It really is just a bunch of small steps except for maybe a biggish one to get started. Thankfully that's the only hard one. But ya, the…

For me, moving from Seattle to Kigali was all about just deciding to do it. After the decision was made it was far, far easier. I've got a wife and kids too. I think if this is som…

Hey Josh, One of the devs here.. There's several different ways your TextIt app can be deployed depending on where you are located. When you sign up, we present the geographically …

My kids aren't that small, but I moved to Africa with them two years ago (they are now 7 and 9). We are actually living abroad, not really "traveling" as in the OP, though it has p…

Using an Android SMS relayer opens up the door for some pretty interesting projects that can be easily launched in any country without having to fight with telcos. Add to that Rapi…

Kigali, Rwanda. Represent!

Here's my experience trying to bring this to one of the offenders' attention. He actually attempted to justify it. http://eric.newcomer.org/jamplay-defends-storing-passwords-i...