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	<title>Thus Spaketh Idd Salim &#187; Symbiotic</title>
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	<description>Chief developer of KeleleMobile, Zunguka and Sembuse</description>
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		<title>Hacking mPesa for fun and profit [Part 1 of 4]</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/09/01/hacking-mpesa-for-fun-and-profit-part-1-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I always am up for a big challenge. Ask all the neighbor&#8217;s daughters in my estate and they will testify. So, over the last week, since the inception of the pZ gateway, I have been privileged to have a-lot of Spare time to study the internal aspects of Mpesa, especially the IIS-based (cringe!!) web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Zain celebrating 2-1 on the 83rd Minute?</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/23/is-zain-celebrating-2-1-on-the-83rd-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raila once quoted me and said, &#8220;Wameona Simba amenyeshewa na ametulia, wakadhani ni paka mkubwa&#8221;. The sad Google swahili translator processes this as: &#8220;The see lion in rain. He has relax. They think big pussy&#8221; Well, thanks to Mblayo, I got this disturbing video of the Zain truck: BendOver jibe at Safaricom HQ The Zain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FaceBook fast approaching the plateau phase in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/18/facebook-fast-approaching-the-plateau-phase-in-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/18/facebook-fast-approaching-the-plateau-phase-in-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sad. Honestly, really sad. I sat with Buju the other day and he asked me : &#8220;Salim. Wewe huwezi unda your own Facebook na venye code unaimesea?&#8221;. My response is the same respose I once gave DjCK, Okech and Sebi. &#8220;Put me in a position that I won&#8217;t have to worry about rent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2Go is officially the ikkiest of the Ikkie &#8211; Facebook beware!</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/08/2go-is-officially-the-ikkiest-of-the-ikkie-facebook-beware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/08/2go-is-officially-the-ikkiest-of-the-ikkie-facebook-beware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2go mxit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, let me just say, Chema Chajiuza, kibaya chajitembeza. It is rare I blog about a non-Kenyan product of any stature, but Good code is Good code. Give credit where it&#8217;s due. I am not an Anti-Mxit person as I admire anything Java, but The fact that Even After about 100 pages of Full-page Ads [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ohh Happy day, Ohhh API day!!</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/20/ohh-happy-day-ohhh-api-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/20/ohh-happy-day-ohhh-api-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great day today for Kenyan coders. Ok, let us say, EastAfrican Community coders, for political correctness. I don&#8217;t even know how to break this news, so I will just do it my plain no-beating-around-her-bushes method. No, the Octopus has not predicted that Safaricom, MTN and Zain will start supporting local innovations. No. The octopus would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Mxit and Safaricom can increase RoI by leveraging local platforms</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/15/how-mxit-and-safaricom-can-increase-roi-by-leveraging-local-platforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/15/how-mxit-and-safaricom-can-increase-roi-by-leveraging-local-platforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, After receiving a few phone-calls and some random emails, I have decided to be positive and share a unique insight on the Immense power of the Collabo between Our beloved Safaricom and Mxit. They might not be doing so well, as we bloggers and alot of arm-chair IT consultants might have analyzed. Straight to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Interesting half-day at Safaricom headquarters, Westlands</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/14/my-interesting-half-day-at-safaricom-headquarters-westlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/14/my-interesting-half-day-at-safaricom-headquarters-westlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Today at 9:54am, I checked in after a thorough security search for metals and other things like screw drivers, hacksaws and pangas etc; stuff that can be used to HACK servers. (Fck! As I blog here, I remembered just I LEFT MY ID THERE!) So we were welcomed with the usual &#8216;leteni IDs&#8217; Kenyan [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Beef with YouTube and NTV Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/28/my-beef-with-youtube-and-ntv-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/28/my-beef-with-youtube-and-ntv-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a VERY sad day for me, an ardent Youtube user. Well, as my confides might know, I was living in Uganda from 2004 to 2008. The I realized that unless I was selling matoke, there was no place for a coder like me there. I was always speaking Greek and talking of &#8216;advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to MAXIMIZE your SMS service profits by bypassing the Mobile Companies and PRSPs</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/18/how-to-maximize-your-sms-service-profits-by-bypassing-the-mobile-companies-and-prsps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/18/how-to-maximize-your-sms-service-profits-by-bypassing-the-mobile-companies-and-prsps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bwana Kukubo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the revenue share model for SMS services running on short-codes was revised and, as always, it anti-enterprenural. As hot girls might tell you, I don&#8217;t like beating around their bushes and I always dive right to the meat of the moment and this being a weekend post, i will make it straight to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Symbiotic to release Mpesa/Zap PayBill API to Kenya Developers in May &#8211; UPDATE**</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/07/symbiotic-to-release-mpesazap-paybill-api-to-kenya-developers-in-may-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/06/07/symbiotic-to-release-mpesazap-paybill-api-to-kenya-developers-in-may-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is meant to serve as an update for this post This project has been stalled a bit due to the tedious and unneccesary steps it take to get Mpesa access from Safaricom. We are ready to go on yuCash and ZAP, but still waiting on Mpesa. The Open and Free payment gateway will [...]]]></description>
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