Naijaborn.com Launched, Lagosians.com moved off Ning
First public beta of the much awaited naijaborn.com has just been released. Top African developers and entrepreneurs have been working tirelessly on this project. Naijaborn.com with the aim of bringing Nigerians together and celebrate the icons, was conceived by Francis Oghuma of Qubestreet (Nigeria and South Africa) and partnered by Mambe Nanaje of Afrovision Group Cameroon.
Naijaborn.com has debuted and its ready to take on other social networking sites. Built from scratch by the Naijaborn team, it boast of unique features common on social networking sites.
Lagosians.com, a fast growing Nigerian social networking site has finally moved its site away from Ning.com to its permanent server, this is to enable it function properly has ning.com platform is too restricted to make it perform as the founder wants to. Available from today june 1, users are now mandated to re-register on the new platform while they can still interact via lagosians.ning.com. Though the user signup on ning has now been suspended, it hoped to convince its over 15,000 members to re-register.
With this lagosians.com case, I think running on platform like ning.com is not viable for a full-fledged social networking site. This is a big mistake made by the lagosians.com crew. Giving number of users they have amass in its short time of launch, convincing them all to come and register could prove to be a tough task.
I await for more SNS, we hope to see these sites develop a business model that can make them profitable and sustained for time to come.
What is your view about this recent developments? Are they going to scale?
Hi Sheriff! thanks for the media mention,we hope to do more with the platform soon enough
regards
papa qube
Yeah, you guys are doing a great job…. Make you platform evolve rapidly so it can get it place fast.
Waaooh
I didnt notice this one, great post Possicon, and thanks for the mention. we heading to the sky, and we are still in Beta so dont expect all our features now. but in a few months, Naijaborn will be some steps ahead with innovations and solutions.
Yeah, you guys are doing a great job!
Hey Sheriff, you are doing a great job.
However, we really didn’t make any mistake by camping with Ning initially. We actually got professional consultation to start up with Ning with the intention of seamlessly migrating the membership database later to our private server. But Ning recently changed their terms of service and thus making it impossible to migrate members of networks created with them.
Now, Ning is hoping to compete with Facebook by suddenly becoming a kind of umbrella social network, while all other networks created through it are being turned into sub-networks or groups. We didn’t have all this when we started with them. So we decided it is better for us to move now when we are still 17,000 in membership than wait till when we are bigger.
We are still perfecting so many things on the new site. And our members have been very co-operative since we moved. The re-registration process has been very impressive too in spite of the initial hiccups we had due to some technical snag. We have dedicated team members that are working hard around the clock with the focus to give Lagosians and all our members the best online experience possible. Many of our members have also volunteered and helping in several ways to get the new site rolling as it ought to. We are really very impressed by this.
Our members are loving what they are seeing at the new site. We also believe new features we are introducing and the flexibility of use of the new site will help in expanding our membership base as we move on. Lagosians.com is actually a place to be now!
We will keep you posted as everything goes.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Cheers!
Seye
Sir,
Thank you for dropping by. Hope you are able to get around the configuration. Its quite pathetic that ning could change it policy like that.
Contrary to what is being said here, Lagosians.com is still powered on the Ning platform. However, Ning allows networks to run using their own domain name thus licensing the Ning framework to the network (Lagosians.com in this case) as a SaaS.
As per NaijaBorn, great job and I also think the site should ‘open up’ a little. Guests should be able to take a peek into what the members enjoy before they can be convinced to take a signup decision. In short, adoption should be easy and lean.
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