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Twitter makes it easy to find who to follow with new feature |
| Posted: Saturday Jul 31st 2010 12:43:47am by segebee | |
| Twitter has just released a new feature that makes it easier to find people to follow; yep, that's right, a copy of facebook's friend finder feature! Guess its payback time... | |
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Lovebase.com a top Nigerian Dating site becomes profitable |
| Posted: Friday Jul 30th 2010 10:59:56am by Possicon | |
Lovebase.com is formally alarena.com a top Nigerian dating site with over 60,000 members and growing, turned positive. We got this tip-off from the founder Simdul Shagaya in our recent interview we conducted with him.
How it works
You sign up on the site with the basic information you wish to be recognized on the site, and activate via your email.
To get people of interest, you can use its search function which allows you to specify whether you need male or female and the age grade, location and users with picture.
A New Deal?
Yea! We asked the founder of the reason for the change of name and he said; “The name change happened for several reasons. One was to have the brand appeal to a greater population of Nigerians in terms of ethnicity and age. As you know, Alarena means matchmaker in Yoruba. The brand now addresses an ethnically wider and younger crowd that may be looking for casual relationships in addition to those seeking marriage”.
The design is sleek and aesthetic, a world-class and web 2.0 compatible website. It’s really one of the top Nigerian sites with powerful user-experience.
The site also has a dedicated line 080-66-33-22-99 for customer support.
The Real Deal
The site has two options; premium and free membership. With premium membership, user get message from serious people and reduces spam. You can actually upload your picture to increase relevance. On the other hand, the free membership allows people to use the site for free!
Business Model
The site has seen considerable number of people making payment for the premium service. With this, the site has been able to sustain itself, innovate and reach broader audience. The model adopted by this site is Subscription model under Web Business Model structure.
Downside
The site can leverage the power of social media to reach far more audience as we now have more than 1.6 million Nigerians on Facebook. Integration with Facebook will do the site good and help users find match faster and better.
Also understanding that mobile has more penetration than computer, a mobile site and SMS alert will help users get result faster and make them stick to the site, eventually increasing word-of-mouth.
Have you used this site before? How was it?
visit: Lovebase.com |
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My Startup Story - Godwin Noah |
| Posted: Friday Jul 30th 2010 8:11:50am by Possicon | |
 I can categorically say that; personally am inspired by various stories shared by Nigerian technopreneurs via this platform in the last couple of weeks, today we'll be sharing with you,a very inspiring story of an innovative Nigeria that has indeed revolutionized his sub-sector. Godwin Noah is the founder of bbnsms.com a mobile solution company based in Surulere, Lagos. Enjoy the ride as he takes us through his journey so far!
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Interview with Emmanuel Okoegwale - Organizer MobiFest2010 |
| Posted: Wednesday Jul 28th 2010 4:34:54pm by Possicon | |
Emmanuel is the Principal Consultant at MobileMoneyAfrica and a leading mobile commerce on the Africa space. We asked couple of questions regarding the upcoming event MobiFest2010 of which we are partner; these question can shed light on some of the questions you might want to ask, go through and endeavor to ask more in the comment section below.
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Web Trends Nigeria partners Mobile Money Africa for Mobifest2010 |
| Posted: Tuesday Jul 27th 2010 8:42:56am by Possicon | |
Tagged: Reaching the M-Generation. It’s a two-day event targeted at mobile application development and innovations. The event will bring together thought-leaders in mobile technology industry. The event aligns with our continuous effort to seek and showcase development and innovation in the Nigerian technology space, hence our interest in supporting this event.
The focus of the event;
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Interview with Daniel Emeka 'Da-vinci' - Creative Genius |
| Posted: Tuesday Jul 27th 2010 12:20:25pm by Possicon | |
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Nigerian postcodes now accessible online |
| Posted: Friday Jul 23rd 2010 12:21:55pm by Possicon | |
| Imagine filling a form online and you are asked to enter your postcode, what do you fill in? In the early days I used 23401 which is for a town in the US, somehow the sites accepted the code and took it to be a US based user. To easily target people with information and serve Nigerian internet users better, it is of great importance that we have these codes in accessible format... now here comes the solution! Tim Akinbo, one of Nigeria's brilliant programmer has solved the problem and make the data available online. It's currently hosted on Google Fusion Lab, you can test it out here. | |
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My Startup Story - Ahmad Mukoshy |
| Posted: Friday Jul 23rd 2010 11:13:49am by Possicon | |
Ahmad Mukoshy is a young Nigerian doing great thing up there in the north, very passionate and consistent. He has been in the industry since 2007 and since then have serviced hundreds of client around the country and beyond. Read trough his story has a shared with us, the journey so far!
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President Goodluck, Governor Fashola massive online campaign; Launched special sites and twitter accounts |
| Posted: Thursday Jul 22nd 2010 6:36:57pm by Possicon | |
| Next year's election will be the first ever Nigerian election influenced by technology going by the happenings before now and that will continue till the election day. | |
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Start lean and watch your expenses carefully – Interview with Simdul Shagaya on Nigerian Internet Market |
| Posted: Thursday Jul 22nd 2010 8:09:26am by Possicon | |
[caption id="attachment_1581" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Simdul Shagaya Speaking at Barcamp Nigeria 2010"] [/caption]
Simdul Shagaya currently the MD, E-motion advertising based in Abuja, Nigeria and also runs various tech companies. He is a veteran web business man in Nigeria, he gained experience working with an IT company that served Fortune 500 companies, and he also worked with companies like Google, Real Network and Rand Merchant bank, South Africa. If you were at the last Barcamp Nigeria, you would have experienced, first hand his dept of knowledge about technology. He shares his experience and perspective with us about the Internet Market in Nigeria and how technopreneurs can get it right in the Country. He knows what he’s talking about, he’s been there, he has built stuff, and he has encountered both success and failure. Enjoy as you read through his mind-blowing revelations.
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