Comments on: What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications?

By: Tariq Khokhar

Tariq Khokhar — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:08:32 +0000

RT @aptivateuk What does local content have to do with low bandwidth applications? http://bit.ly/2elRgZ (via @ICT_Works)

By: Aptivate

Aptivate — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:07:07 +0000

What does local content have to do with low bandwidth applications? http://bit.ly/2elRgZ (via @ICT_Works)

By: Global Voices Online » ICT4D: When mobile phones link with computers

Global Voices Online » ICT4D: When mobile phones link with computers — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:31:50 +0000

[...] a few examples: • Checking up a profile on Facebook or at least access the log in page, which has alone almost [...]

By: Alan M Jackson

Alan M Jackson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:28:41 +0000

@ict4d great blog article! http://tr.im/sM5J

By: ICT4D

ICT4D — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:15:24 +0000

@AlanMJackson oh yes indeed I liked it a lot. Following your work for a while and blogged myself about the topic here: http://tr.im/sM5J

By: Binetou

Binetou — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:32:41 +0000

What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications? http://tinyurl.com/d2hpm6

By: petecranston

petecranston — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:35:20 +0000

@timdavies what a day to be in London. WIll do. Christian’s blog good: http://bit.ly/Oklz6, includes link to good discussion on km4dev

By: Miquel

Miquel — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:32:17 +0000

Shannon, Posterous appears to be low bandwidth as it’s a sparse layout and one that I quite honestly like a good deal. Unfortunately, they use some massive Javascript libraries to pull it all together that makes even basic pages quite large and very much not low bandwidth. Maybe there are some settings to override some of this, but I don’t know as I’m not actively using it.
Obviously, I’m rather biased towards what we’re doing with http://www.maneno.org as we have multiple options to dial the download footprint of the site up or down depending on your restrictions.

-miquel

By: sturlington

sturlington — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:14:14 +0000

What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications? http://ff.im/-2N7Ub

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:54:06 +0000

I haven’t tried this out yet but Posterous looks promising as a low-bandwidth blogging solution that can interface with email. I’ve been playing with the idea of using a tool like that to create a group blog with our field workers based in Africa.

By: Christian Kreutz

Christian Kreutz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Yes Joitske check out this website: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
It also shows the time for different connection types.

By: Joitske

Joitske — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:41:24 +0000

He, nice post. Would you know of any tools to measure the bandwidth per webpage?

By: Dennis D. McDonald

Dennis D. McDonald — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:56:05 +0000

Some negative international development implications of applications that have high bandwidth requirements: http://tinyurl.com/d2hpm6

By: Josef Scarantino

Josef Scarantino — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:11:06 +0000

Great piece by @ckreutz “What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications?” http://is.gd/u4mb

By: Ken Gillgren

Ken Gillgren — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:00:25 +0000

What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications? http://ow.ly/3eb4 – important insights!

By: Yaelle

Yaelle — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:02:18 +0000

To admit, I haven’t been thinking of the bandwidth problem yet – spoiled German. This will change on the day of my arrival in Niger, I guess… Remembering your suggestion on Maneno will be a great service. Thank you Christian!

By: Miquel

Miquel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:00:59 +0000

Thanks for the praise of Maneno, Christian. One clarification on the languages of Maneno in that we don’t have an Arabic translation, but we do have a Spanish translation, which is primarily for access of those living in Equatorial Guinea. In addition to the Bambara and Swahili translations, our African languages will also be including Fula and Lingala in the next week or two. I’m working on integrating these translations right now.
An update as to our bandwidth in that with adding in the connection speed selector, people can fine tune to their bandwidth needs. The less bandwidth you have, the more functions that setting will take out, getting the home page to the point of being 8kb with the strictest setting. Once fully implemented, the other pages will be similar. I think it’s tough to balance out bandwidth size with appeal and this is the best solution that pops in to my head as it gives people a choice (if they’re logged in to Maneno) as to how lean they wanna be.
It’s unfortunate about Twitter, because unless you’re using the mobile version, the standard web version is actually incredibly heavy, which is probably surprising to a great many people given that it is in theory such a simple thing.

-miquel