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Nigerian Web Awards Event Calendar |
| Posted: Tuesday Aug 3rd 2010 2:37:34pm by Possicon | |
It gives me joy to announce our calendar for this year's Nigerian Web Awards. Our mission is to continue to develop ways to shape the industry and help it mature, we have been involved in various developmental efforts since last year to develop the web industry in Nigeria. |
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VIP invitation to MobiFest 2010 |
| Posted: Tuesday Aug 3rd 2010 2:01:53pm by Possicon | |
| We partnered with MobileMoneyAfrica.com to bring MobiFest2010 to the mobile technology industry in Nigeria. Today, you can register for the event through us to get a pass! | |
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Nigerian Internet Users hit 43,982,200 No. 1 in Africa |
| Posted: Monday Aug 2nd 2010 6:10:42am by Possicon | |
| Nigeria is now taking is rightful place as the leading country with the most internet users in Africa! According to Internet World Stats, Nigeria now has a whopping 43,982,200 users on the internet, making it No. 1 is Africa, more than times 2 of the internet users in Egypt (17,060,000) and More than times 8 of South Africa's Internet users (5,300,000). Releasing the result of mid-year 2010 internet stats of the world. | |
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How it was done – Nigerian postcode data extraction |
| Posted: Sunday Aug 1st 2010 5:52:59pm by segebee | |
Tim Akinbo has allowed us to publish this article on how he scraped data from the Nigeria Postal Service site. He also shares how you can too below.
In my previous post, I talked about open data and how making the Nigerian postcode data open and more accessible has a wide potential for powering several applications. I’ve received several comments on Facebook with even more examples on how that data could be useful. In this post, I would share how this extraction was done and how similar extraction scripts or scrapers could be written. The first step in every scraping project I begin is to understand the HTTP dialog for the website I want to scrape. So I attempt to answer questions like these: |
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OMG! Founder of Formspring.me is Nigerian !!! |
| Posted: Sunday Aug 1st 2010 5:34:18pm by segebee | |
There are few names that come to mind when you think of Nigerian web masters who have built international sites or have international acclaim. Apart from Dare Obasanjo, who works for microsoft and blogs [Carnage4Life], the name that comes to mind is Oo Nwoye of OnePage.
Recently, Oo Nwoye posted on facebook that the founder and CEO of popular Silicon Valley start up, Formspring.me, is Nigerian. It was a shock to me as well as an inspiration. So, I did some little research and found out that, He was actually born and brought up in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He left the shores of Nigeria when he was 9 years old. He is 31 years old at the moment.
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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.
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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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Interview with Daniel Emeka 'Da-vinci' - Creative Genius |
| Posted: Tuesday Jul 27th 2010 12:20:25pm by Possicon | |
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