Just yesterday, I was asking Sheriff about what a REST API meant. This question came about because I am currently working on a project that needs social media integration and would be using Twitter and Facebook APIs. Now, it is not the first time I would come across the word “REST”. I had come across [...]
We wrote a post about the Social Innovation Camp that was to hold for the very first time in Nigeria a while back, you can find the post here. It is an event that seeks to fun innovative ideas. The cool part is no demo or working application was needed. Only Ideas were requested. After [...]
Google’s Marissa Mayer has been with Google since 1999 and is one of its first twenty five employees. In an interview on Digg Dialogg she revealed what she called ” Google’s biggest mistakes” . The first was Google Wave “Wave. Certainly there are things we’ve learnt from that, certain things we would have done differently.” [...]
Facebook is rolling out a new breed of Pages called Friendship Pages that pull together the public wall posts, comments, photos (based on tags) and events that two friends have in common. The Friendship Pages feature was cooked up by Facebook software engineer Wayne Kao and then brought to life in an internal hackathon event. [...]
Was trying to find an SNL spoof on Mark Zuckerberg sometime ago and saw among his likes; Makinde Adeagbo! I was taken aback. That was a Yoruba name I just saw on the page of the world’s youngest richest man[EDIT: Mark is no longer the youngest richest, its Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook Co-founder. Thanks for spotting [...]
Joe Hewitt, a top developer who works for Facebook, recently tweeted that Google’s Android was not open and that caused an argument around the twitworld and blogosphere. Today, he has written a blog post to clarify things. Here’s the post below: There is no doubt that Android is the most open of all major mobile [...]
I recently came across an article titled “How Philip Emeagwali Lied His Way To Fame” on Facebook which was posted by Nigeriafornigerians.org but was originally an article written for Sahara Reporters. This article comes across like the person has a personal vendetta against Philip Emeagwali, however, the statements can be confirmed online which, for someone, [...]
Google is at it again! Google, a few hours ago, revealed a secret project they had been working on, a futuristic, self driven by a computer, using Google’s data centers, servers and maps, Motor Vehicle. Here’s the Blog Post. An excerpt from the Blog post below: One of the big problems we’re working on today [...]
Foremost information technology company, Microsoft Inc. through its Nigerian office has completed the training of teachers in selected secondary schools in Lagos State. The project, which is part of the efforts to improve the knowledge of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is being coordinated by Deux Project, Inforgraphics, IT & C Networking and Galaxy [...]
