Bade Adesemo, Adekunle Samuel Wins Future Awards

Congratulations to the future awards winners. These two people are basically into web that is why am choosing to speak about them. See full list here.
Bade Adesemowo is the CEO of Bincom ICT, a company he founded couple of years ago.
Kunle is a creative artiste and have been instrumental in the design of various [...]

Nigerian Web Awards; Nomination is over

The nomination for 2009 Nigerian web awards is closed. We have started the verification process and the voting should begin by Monday. We received over 500 nominations.
There some categories that had no nominees or too few, they are;

Startup Friendly ISP
Startup Friendly Investor
Event of the Year
Top Analyst of the Year
Best Corporate use of Social Media
Top Industry [...]

Happy Birthday Possicon

Kind of ironic? Well today is my birthday. I thank God for the journey so far and the possibilities ahead. I thank my parent for the grooming I got and the opportunity to choose what I wanted for my life. I also thank you guys for the support and encouragement in the tough terrain of [...]

Barcamp Nigeria 2010 … Let’s go there!

Last year’s Barcamp Nigeria was organized in Lagos by the duo of Tim Akinbo and Ayodeji Adewunmi and other web community members, it was hugely successful! The event to a large extent created avenue for Nigerian web technologist to network . We covered the event exclusively here. Official page is located at barcampnigeria.com.
This year, in [...]

Nigerian Technopreneur gets creative… smsadsng.com

I have said a time and again that; Nigerian web industry will witness a shift this year, yea… a shift! The move will include penetration to the mainstream, new business models, more engaging site and site with local contents.
Smsadsng.com is powered by txtoweb.com a relatively new company but with advance technology. Text to web helps [...]

Nigerians Take over Twitter … #abaversion

Nigerians on the internet currently stands at 11 million and growing. Social media growth in Nigeria is also on the high as number of Nigerians on Facebook is almost 1 million. Twitter growth in Nigeria is also massive as its mostly used by Nigerian artiste and tech people. And among most visited sites in Nigeria.
Today [...]

Most visited Nigerian sites in January 2010

Let me take you through our traditional review here, by looking at how Nigerian websites performed in January. Nairaland.com remains the unmoved table topper as punchng.com finds its feet, moving 6 places from the bottom to the fourth place on the table. I believe punchng.com management has learnt their lesson! Vanguardng.com is the second most [...]

The vision of Webtrendsng.com – creating the future!

Vision they say is the ability to picture the future and work towards it. I want to share brief vision behind webtrendsng.com with you to usher in our next level to serve you.
Web Trends Nigeria was born out of the need to make sense of the internet usage in Nigeria, to make business out of [...]

Technology Outlook 2010 new date announced

We wrote here recently about this event that was schedule to hold between 2-4th February 2010. The date has been shifted and now made public. The event will now take place from 23rd to 25th of February 2010. The event is the gathering of decision makers in the industry, coming together to chart the course [...]

Nigerian Web Awards Nomination Extended

Nigerian Web Award nomination started last December 21st, which was scheduled to end by the 21st of January. We have now shifted it by 2 weeks  and 2 days now to end by the 6th of February 2010. We have extended this to give more site/people opportunity to be nominated.
So far, hundreds nominations have been [...]