Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical infrastructure Freelancer.com is proud to announce that we have just acquired vWorker! Headquartered in Tampa , Florida , vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001 originally as RentACoder.com, the marketplace was one of the earliest companies of its kind in the world. It rapidly developed an exceptional reputation for attracting quality programmers and grew at an astonishing pace. From 2007 to 2010 RentACoder.com was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA . In 2010, Entrepreneur Magazine called RentACoder “one of the hundred smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar". Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site expanded to include a wide selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more. To reflect this expansion, the company changed its name to vWorker - short for “virtual workerâ€. Over the next few days, we will be migrating vWorker users onto Freelancer.com. This is great news for our existing users as it makes the world’s largest marketplace even stronger with over 6.6 million professionals! This means more employers, more freelancers, and more opportunities. Current employers will see greater variety and competition among freelancers in the marketplace, while current freelancers will see a marked increase in the amount of work available on the site. Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing marketplace for small business. We connect over 6.6 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.
Konza will function as a "Data Center" City I thought? Even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers, storage... etc No? :) On Nov 26, 2012 9:17 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical infrastructure
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Freelancer.com is proud to announce that we have just acquired vWorker! Headquartered in Tampa , Florida , vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001 originally as RentACoder.com, the marketplace was one of the earliest companies of its kind in the world. It rapidly developed an exceptional reputation for attracting quality programmers and grew at an astonishing pace. From 2007 to 2010 RentACoder.com was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA . In 2010, Entrepreneur Magazine called RentACoder “one of the hundred smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar". Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site expanded to include a wide selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more. To reflect this expansion, the company changed its name to vWorker - short for “virtual workerâ€. Over the next few days, we will be migrating vWorker users onto Freelancer.com. This is great news for our existing users as it makes the world’s largest marketplace even stronger with over 6.6 million professionals! This means more employers, more freelancers, and more opportunities. Current employers will see greater variety and competition among freelancers in the marketplace, while current freelancers will see a marked increase in the amount of work available on the site.
Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing marketplace for small business. We connect over 6.6 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.
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Give me a technologically superior nation with poorly developed infrastructure. Its ok I will wait. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
Konza will function as a "Data Center" City I thought?
Even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers, storage... etc
No?
:) On Nov 26, 2012 9:17 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical infrastructure
[image: Freelancer]
Freelancer.com is proud to announce that we have just acquired vWorker! Headquartered in Tampa , Florida , vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001 originally as RentACoder.com, the marketplace was one of the earliest companies of its kind in the world. It rapidly developed an exceptional reputation for attracting quality programmers and grew at an astonishing pace. From 2007 to 2010 RentACoder.com was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA . In 2010, Entrepreneur Magazine called RentACoder “one of the hundred smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar". Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site expanded to include a wide selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more. To reflect this expansion, the company changed its name to vWorker - short for “virtual workerâ€. Over the next few days, we will be migrating vWorker users onto Freelancer.com. This is great news for our existing users as it makes the world’s largest marketplace even stronger with over 6.6 million professionals! This means more employers, more freelancers, and more opportunities. Current employers will see greater variety and competition among freelancers in the marketplace, while current freelancers will see a marked increase in the amount of work available on the site.
Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing marketplace for small business. We connect over 6.6 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.
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Yes - even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers. Perhaps even more important is knowing that you can meet all sorts of partners and people in one place that through serendipity or otherwise will contribute to growth of your tech entreprise. That's what physical hubs such as iHub have began to demonstrate and this will be of much benefit when scaled up through initiatives such as Konza City, Regards On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Give me a technologically superior nation with poorly developed infrastructure. Its ok I will wait.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
Konza will function as a "Data Center" City I thought?
Even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers, storage... etc
No?
:) On Nov 26, 2012 9:17 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical infrastructure
[image: Freelancer]
Freelancer.com is proud to announce that we have just acquired vWorker! Headquartered in Tampa , Florida , vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001 originally as RentACoder.com, the marketplace was one of the earliest companies of its kind in the world. It rapidly developed an exceptional reputation for attracting quality programmers and grew at an astonishing pace. From 2007 to 2010 RentACoder.com was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA . In 2010, Entrepreneur Magazine called RentACoder “one of the hundred smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar". Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site expanded to include a wide selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more. To reflect this expansion, the company changed its name to vWorker - short for “virtual workerâ€. Over the next few days, we will be migrating vWorker users onto Freelancer.com. This is great news for our existing users as it makes the world’s largest marketplace even stronger with over 6.6 million professionals! This means more employers, more freelancers, and more opportunities. Current employers will see greater variety and competition among freelancers in the marketplace, while current freelancers will see a marked increase in the amount of work available on the site.
Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing marketplace for small business. We connect over 6.6 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.
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It kind of pains me to see/hear people thinking of Konza Techno City as a "super-sized" iHub or Nailab.... Get it right folks, Konza is NOT a co-working space, nor an incubator, nor both...It is intended as a complete city, albeit with a specific focus, or bias towards technology. Those of you who have followed the plans/proposals that have been expressed through the crystallization process both via the master developer as well as interested investors, Konza already has expressions of interest for the development of: - Financial Services Cluster: similar to Nairobi's Upper Hill (which over the past years seems to have attracted most if not all the major actors in the financial services scene) - Research & Development Cluster - Information Technology Cluster - Several 5 Star Hotels - Several Universities - Several Hospitals - among others Yes, I admit that co-working spaces and incubation will take place in/at Konza - but these will be miniscule compared to the other activites/infrastructure that will be based there. Let's get it right folks - if we don't see the vision ourselves, how will others who aren't even here with us? Best regards, Brian [image: logo] *Brian Munyao Longwe* | Mobile: 254715964281 http://mashilingi.blogspot.com <http://www.facebook.com/brianmunyao> Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/brianmunyao> <http://www.twitter.com/blongwe> Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/blongwe> <http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/brian-munyao-longwe/0/32/254> LinkedIn<http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/brian-munyao-longwe/0/32/254> Contact me: [image: Skype] blongwe Want a signature like mine? <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16> Click here.<http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:26 PM, John Kieti <jkieti@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes - even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers.
Perhaps even more important is knowing that you can meet all sorts of partners and people in one place that through serendipity or otherwise will contribute to growth of your tech entreprise. That's what physical hubs such as iHub have began to demonstrate and this will be of much benefit when scaled up through initiatives such as Konza City,
Regards
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Give me a technologically superior nation with poorly developed infrastructure. Its ok I will wait.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
Konza will function as a "Data Center" City I thought?
Even highly virtual teams do need locations for servers, storage... etc
No?
:) On Nov 26, 2012 9:17 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Software development is no longer about a physical location, so as the world goes virtual we continue to move backwards obsessed with physical infrastructure
[image: Freelancer]
Freelancer.com is proud to announce that we have just acquired vWorker! Headquartered in Tampa , Florida , vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001 originally as RentACoder.com, the marketplace was one of the earliest companies of its kind in the world. It rapidly developed an exceptional reputation for attracting quality programmers and grew at an astonishing pace. From 2007 to 2010 RentACoder.com was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA . In 2010, Entrepreneur Magazine called RentACoder “one of the hundred smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar". Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site expanded to include a wide selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more. To reflect this expansion, the company changed its name to vWorker - short for “virtual workerâ€. Over the next few days, we will be migrating vWorker users onto Freelancer.com. This is great news for our existing users as it makes the world’s largest marketplace even stronger with over 6.6 million professionals! This means more employers, more freelancers, and more opportunities. Current employers will see greater variety and competition among freelancers in the marketplace, while current freelancers will see a marked increase in the amount of work available on the site.
Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing marketplace for small business. We connect over 6.6 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.
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