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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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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 | |
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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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NEWS: Facebook to Announce 500 million users...Yahoo Releases 2nd QTR results |
| Posted: Wednesday Jul 21st 2010 6:08:20am by segebee | |
| Yahoo has released its second quarter earnings report with a 2% increase in revenue. You can view all the Stats here. Also, reports have it that Facebook will announce it has reached 500 million users this week! This is massive. Half a billion people on Facebook? Wow! | |
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CopyCats! Google Copies Bing in Image Search Revamp...Literally. |
| Posted: Wednesday Jul 21st 2010 5:40:49am by segebee | |
Google yesterday revamped its Image Search service, in a way that seems like a copy and paste of Bing's Image search service. In the new Google Image Search, Only Images are shown, and you do not have to click to go to different pages, you can scroll down the page to at least a viewing of 1,000 images!
In its blog announcement, here's what Google had to say;
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Interview with Dudutoonz a Nigerian top creative house |
| Posted: Monday Jul 19th 2010 1:31:32pm by Possicon | |
In our ongoing quest to profile top young Nigerian talents and company, we present to you Dututoonz, a top Nigerian digital Art company with world class illustration and trend setting designs, they are truly Nigerian and worth celebrating. We covered some of their headline marking designs recently.
WTN: Let’s meet you DUDUTOONZ: DUDUTOONZ is a company powered by a team of creative, cultured and dedicated Nigerians passionate about hoisting the standard of corporate excellence, driving fresh and creative innovation. Our services include all areas of digital arts- motion graphics, TV commercials, radio commercials, website design and hosting, animations, graphic design, brand packaging, and a host of other digital Art productions. And then our products include a TV animated series titled BABA IMULERU. It’s a clever blend of humor and the proverbs of the Yoruba tribe which comes out as a simple and interesting act of storytelling; a full-fledged comedy magazine called CRAZY. It a 22 pages entertainment editorial. It employs the irresistible power of beautifully distorted imageries of our celebrities and society in general. |
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Google acquires MetaWeb...seeks to understand Search better. |
| Posted: Saturday Jul 17th 2010 12:18:38pm by segebee | |
| Yesterday, Google acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world. The Aim? To improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone. Google says it is acquiring Metaweb to enable it better respond to Semantic Search queries, queries like "How many Nigerian Schools are in the North?" or "actors over 40 who have won at least one oscar?". |
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My Startup Story – Ola White Y. |
| Posted: Friday Jul 16th 2010 3:45:19pm by Possicon | |
We have promised to share Nigerians' startup stories here every friday, am very glad we were able to get touch with this inspiring young man, who I will say built his company and personal brand from the scratch to a worthy 7 awards to his credit.
Read through to enjoy the story of Ola White Yusuf as a takes us through his journey so far.
I may not have much more to say about my Startup but I bet I would inspire a mind if not two or more by the time you finish reading about it. Please let’s have a ride to the island of my Startup.
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