I got a couple stats regarding Eskimi, the burgeoning mobile social networking site making waves in Nigeria. It is interesting to note that, the company has as a matter of top priority stated recruit able hands for business development in the country. It was reported last month that a top consultant from Goal.com has joined [...]
How do you react to Microsoft developing its own social network? Well, it has not been officially announced that Microsoft is developing a social network but rumour has it that they might be onto something like that. Weeks after Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) launched Google+, rumors have begun making the rounds that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is working on its own [...]
Facebook launched video chat powered by Skype video chatting solution. The move is said to be to counter Google+ but looking at the complexity of the solution, they must have been working on it before Google+ was launched. If you want to try it out, follow these steps; Go to www.facebook.com/videocalling You will be asked [...]
Have you ever uploaded photo to Facebook? You know how daunting tagging friends in the photo is? Especially if you have to tag 10s of people in more than 100 photos, that’s a full day job! Facebook yesterday launched a new product that automates the processing. The product automatically detect your friends’ faces and tag [...]
Wondering? Yeah! With all due respect it remains Nigeria’s internet success story, from a very humble beginning, platform for first generation of Nigerian techpreneur and a juggernaut yet to be defeated. Nairaland.com is a success story of how Nigerian startup could become, profitable under 12months and remains relevant and at the top for more than [...]
Facebook has surely become a power-house, big enough to take on almighty Google! Since the start of the battle to take over the social web, both companies have been slugging it out with each other. Recently, Google dropped Facebook from auto-syncing with Android contact API, sure you can say that’s the 1st in the year [...]
This news was covered by our partner at Afrinnovator. It’s only recently that we featured Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, an young Nigerian in the diaspora who’s a co-founder to a promising startup called Bookneto. We got wind of yet another startup by yet another Nigerian, Gossy Ukanwoke. Students Circle Network is a social network bringing together students [...]
Call it Facebook everywhere and you wont be wronged, Gemalto has come to the aid of Facebook to produce text-based Facebook for feature phone. Some of the things you can do with it include status updates, pokes and friend requests – to any GSM-compatible handset through the magic of the GSM SIM Toolkit and Class [...]
Even if your business is ignoring the growth, possibilities of social media and is busy ensuring the ban on Social Media in the office is upheld, three categories of people are still using it – your clients/customers, your competitors and… wait for this… your employees still sneak ( maybe you should seize phones! lol). If [...]
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 [...]
