What is social media?

This week we shall release couple of updates to help strengthen our vision to shape your understanding of the web and it’s benefit to your business and personal life.
Today we will be looking at social media; someone may want to ask “what is social media?” What is the noise about? Well before we go further [...]

Weekly recap, first week of March

Nigerian Pidgin Bible; Crowd-sourced Project on Facebook
Pidgin english is a simplified English language people in Nigeria use for casual conversation.
A project developed by 9ja BusStop; the Facebook application hopes to translate the Christian Bible to pidgin English.
Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010
As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. [...]

BBN SMS launched bulk SMS recharge cards

BBN SMS is one of the leading bulk SMS operators in the Nigeria’s growing bulk SMS market. To serve more customers, BBN believes that bulk SMS does not have to run into thousands but some Naira. Today the dealer recharge PIN has been launched!.
Godwin Noah, MD/CEO said we are reaching out to more customers, creating [...]

Nigerian Blogger Featured on Oprah Show

Nigeria internet scene has been growing massively on the positive side, Google recently stamped its footprint on the Nigerian Internet Market last month, as other large scale investment is going on to harness the potential of the Nigerian internet market.
Uche Eze, is the blogger behind the popular entertainment blog, bellanaija.com. She is very passionate and [...]

Facebook worth $11.5billion, Twitter $1.4billion, Linkedin $1.3billion

Whether you want to say, social networking is fun or business, I guess a company worth over a billion dollars is no more a child’s place.
Facebook is the world largest social networking site with over 400 million users worldwide. Oh! 400 M, yeah! 400million eyeballs you can market to!
An analysis from sharespost.com release worth of [...]

Innovation Hub lands in Kenya

If there is a country on African soil that has shown consistent commitment towards technology development in recent time, I sure will choose Kenya! Kenya is home to M-Pesa and some other innovative technologies.
Innovation hub or simply iHub is an open environment for techies to express themselves, launch startups and take on the world! The [...]

Startups Act 2010, US wants technopreneur around the world

I was reading through Techcrunch and came across this post. Silicon Valley technocrats are drumming up support for the bill proposed by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) to be discussed next week Thursday.
Here is what the bill plans to accomplish:
The Startup Visa Act of 2010 would create a two year visa for [...]

Interswitch webpay, a dying goldmine

Interswitch the leading payment gateway in Nigeria, in fact has a near monopoly stronghold on the e-payment industry in Nigeria. Though, it is supposed to be the preferred gateway for online payments but has scared web merchants away with its exorbitant setup fee of N150, 000. Interswitch charges N150, 000 for setup fee, 1.5% per [...]

NetNaira.com another Nigerian e-payment site

If you have been following this blog since the start of the year, you will notice a growing pattern in the Nigerian web space. I wrote last time about an e-payment service for Nigerian (FasteCash). I went o Interswitch on yesterday (Tuesday) to ask for any update regarding their payment platform, well nothing has changed [...]

Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010

As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. It again no surprise that nairaland.com remains on the top spot but its good to note how punchng.com rally from shadow of its formal glory to take back the second spot. We predicted last month that punchng.com will battle it out between 1st [...]

 

 

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