http://webtrendsng.com/blog ...shaping the future of Internet usage in Nigeria! Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we caught up with Bade, the founder of Bincom ICT solutions and the winner of The Future Awards, Best Use of Technology 2010. He shared with us his journey so far and plans ahead. WTN: First, congrats on your last award and recent Joomla day Nigeria, you are really an ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/interview-with-bade-adesemowo-of-bincom-net/ 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? ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/what-is-social-media/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/weekly-recap-first-week-of-march/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/bbn-sms-launched-bulk-sms-recharge-cards/ 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. ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/nigerian-blogger-featured-on-oprah-show/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/facebook-worth-11-5billion-twitter-1-4billion-linkedin-1-3billion/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/innovation-hub-lands-in-kenya/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/startups-act-2010-us-wants-technopreneur-around-the-world/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/interswitch-webpay-a-dying-goldmine/ 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 ... http://webtrendsng.com/blog/netnaira-com-another-nigerian-e-payment-site/