Tools for Social SEO

The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for research, marketing and promotion or analytics. Here are 11 social media and SEO tools you might find useful

howsociable.com Social visibility score
knowem.com Profile building tool
Social Media for Firefox — Build a powerful social profile on [...]

Google Acquires Like.com Visual Search and Image Comparision Engine

Google has officially acquired the visual search engine and this was even confirmed by the company’s CEO and founder Munjal Shah via Like.com’s homepage

Google Acquires Like.com Visual Search and Image Comparision Engine
Though the terms of the deal were not really divulged, you can bet it’s a [...]

[Press Release] Skoola a Nigeria Educational Social Networking site launched

We got this press release from Skoola.com a social media site with educational-focus. This is a creative idea,  I will give it an in-depth look and write a review here.

A New Social Networking site www.skoola.com has been launched.  The site is aimed at bringing students, graduates and educationists to get to network, share problems [...]

SiteFocus: 360Nobs.com an all-round entertainment site

As Nigerian entertainment industry continues its massive growth and rated about the second in the world (in terms of quantity).360nobs.com, launched on the 1st of April 2010 is shaking the entertainment industry with online coverage of the news, events and everything entertainment.

How it works
Talk about Perez Hilton phenomenon in the US, 360nobs.com hopes to be [...]

MMIT innovator of MobileWallet to take Mpayment to Unilag

MMIT the innovator of Mobile payment system launching soon in Nigeria will be conducting a test run of the platform in University of Lagos this Saturday.
Jide Akindele the CEO Said:
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MMIT will be doing a Live RESEARCH demo mobile money transfer at Unilag tomorrow in conjunction with Mobile Money Africa. MMIT will be giving [...]

Gistcaster.com Nigerian microblogging platform now out of beta

Gistcaster.com is one of Nigeria’s many microblogging platform with exciting features like location tagging. The site have been growing really well since the start of the year and has held various event across the country.
In their own words:

Gistcaster has completely evolved from an early and buggy ALPHA release, the platform is now stable, reliable and [...]

Channels TV joins Twitter craze

In what is becoming the “in thing” in Nigeria, Channels Tv’s early morning program Sun Rise Daily now has a twitter account. First tweet was on the 17th of this month at about 3:43pm (that aint morning, lolz) it has continued to tweets intermittently,  though out of context to its programme.
The account (I assume) is [...]

Facebook ban during business hours for employees, is it right?

This argument has been going on ever since Facebook started growing like wildfire. Facebook was originally built for people to connect and share with friends and their networks. It currently has whopping 500million users and businesses are beginning to use it to promote their business.

Here in Nigeria, it has more than 1.6million users; an average [...]

Wordcamp Nigeria has been rescheduled

One of the most anticipated tech events in Nigeria, Wordcamp Nigeria has been rescheduled to September 25th. The Organizers said in a bid to make the event successful, they had to effect the change of date. One of the leading light from WordPress global was schedule top facilitate at the event but unfortunately things change.

From the message [...]

Facebook launched Places; Privacy and the future of Location Based Services

Perhaps you would have heard that Facebook users are now in excess of 500million; that is about 30% of internet population using the service. As far as the internet is concern, Facebook is a force to be recon with. The almighty Google has been finding ways to get into the terrain, but the more they [...]