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Sheriff Shittu

What is social media?

Posted: Monday Mar 8th 2010 8:46:10am by Possicon
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? Well before we go further let’s understand the brief definition of the term Social media “…it’s media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media m
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Sheriff Shittu

Weekly recap, first week of March

Posted: Sunday Mar 7th 2010 3:31:24pm by Possicon
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 feared in the recent month. It again no
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Sheriff Shittu

Nigerian Blogger Featured on Oprah Show

Posted: Friday Mar 5th 2010 11:54:53am by Possicon
Uche-Eze-Oprah-Screen-CaptureNigeria 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. She is very passionate and consistent about what she does! She was also
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Sheriff Shittu

BBN SMS launched bulk SMS recharge cards

Posted: Friday Mar 5th 2010 11:56:45am by Possicon
logoBBN 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 out to more customers, creating more revenue streams for our dealers. Card Denomination
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 from sharespost.com release worth of the following companies on its website to help people willing to invest in private companies know their worth.
  • Facebook: $11.5 billion
  • Zynga: $
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Sheriff Shittu

Innovation Hub lands in Kenya

Posted: Thursday Mar 4th 2010 3:17:25pm by Possicon
4404124779_2522944f18If 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 take on the world! The place was launched yesterday in fanfare! iHub: "It’s an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies an
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Sheriff Shittu

Startups Act 2010, US wants technopreneur around the world

Posted: Wednesday Mar 3rd 2010 4:21:16pm by Possicon
usaI 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 a two year visa for immigrant entrepreneurs who are able to r
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Sheriff Shittu

Interswitch webpay, a dying goldmine

Posted: Wednesday Mar 3rd 2010 2:17:28pm by Possicon
interswitch-logo2 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 for setup fee, 1.5% per transaction and N2, 000 flat on transaction above N150, 000. I’d expected that it automatically transfer its presence
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Sheriff Shittu

NetNaira.com another Nigerian e-payment site

Posted: Wednesday Mar 3rd 2010 11:40:09am by Possicon
netnaira_new_begin 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 platform, well nothing has changed in the setup fee and transaction commission and no plan (as much as I know) to review the price.
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Sheriff Shittu

Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010

Posted: Tuesday Mar 2nd 2010 11:52:06am by Possicon
As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. It again no surprise that nairaland.com remains on the top spot but its good to note how punchng.com rally from shadow of its formal glory to take back the second spot. We predicted last month that punchng.com will battle it out between 1st and 2nd spot this month; yeah indeed it proved us right. While vanguardngr.com relinquished the second spot for the veteran punchng.com. thisdayonline.com is back again with a massive push  upward to stand on the fourth spot while 234next.com also ramp up 3 places to stay on the 5th spot. Sunnewsonline.com dropped just 1 place as gtbank.com leads the b
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