West Africa Internet Governance Forum: Event Updates

The biggest event in IT industry in Africa for the week, held in Accra Ghana. It brought together the stakeholders in the IT industry in Africa to discuss issues facing the continent and define the future.

In the blogosphere, participants tweeted live from the event. The top tweeterers you were: @niyyie @nnenna and @camega with the hashtag #waigf.

Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right

Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone.

Video Interview with ‘Gbenga Sesan; Developing Web industry in Nigeria

We conducted a video interview with Gbenga Sesan about the Web industry in Nigeria. You can watch the excerpt online.

Nigerian top web hosting companies: signonafrica.net, mcreal.net

We featured these two websites on our site acknowledging the roles they have played in the web hosting aspect of Nigeria.

Corporate Web Strategies; getting started, defining your goal

We also featured a strategist article highlighting how to define and maintain your Corporate Web Strategies.

Google Wave beta testing, expert reacts

Online Advertisement do you need it?

This Article ex-rayed how to online advertisement, giving you a headstart toward the importance of Advertising online. One of the highlight is the UK industry where online ads have overtaken TV ads.

2009 State Of The Blogosphere: The Full BlogWorld Presentation

Technorati released Blogosphere report for 2009.

Technorati gets new funding, re-launched site

Additional $2Million was raised to make Technorati profitable says Richard Jalichandra the new CEO. On the other hand, to reflect new dimension Technorati also re-launched its site with new features which make it more serious about profitability.

Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing. A Great New Feature.

Twitter has rolled out its new Lists feature to a larger portion of its user base right now. The feature allows you to group users you follow together and then lets you share those for others to also follow.

Google Puts Analysts’ Targets, Recession In Rearview Mirror

Experts had high expectations heading into Google’s third quarter earnings report, but that was no problem for the search giant as it beat estimates in almost every way.  Google’s stock is now heading up in after-hours trading.

The consensus was that Google would bring in something like $4.24 billion in terms of net revenue.  It posted $4.38 billion, instead.  An even bigger gap was then evident in terms of non-GAAP EPS, with Google reporting $5.89 instead of $5.42.  And operating expenses went down by a noticeable amount on a year-over-year basis, drifting from $1.72 billion (or 31 percent of revenues) to $1.64 billion (or 28 percent of revenues).