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10 Reasons You Should Attend Barcamp Nigeria 2010

By Loy Okezie On May 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

Here are 10 reasons why you should attend Barcamp Nigeria 2010
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10 Nigerian dotcom start-ups that are dotgone

By Loy Okezie On May 3, 2010 · 11 Comments
10 Nigerian dotcom start-ups that are dotgone
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It’s Official: Barcamp Nigeria 2010

By Loy Okezie On March 22, 2010 · 9 Comments

Described as “the best technology event that has ever happened in the history of the Nigerian web industry”, Barcamp Nigeria 2010 has been officially announced.

Born out of the desire to build connections between technopreneurs and…

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Will Yarnable Be Just Another Twitter Clone?

By Loy Okezie On March 3, 2010 · 14 Comments

Earlier in January, Yrn.me’s founder, Ahmad Mukoshy described his “next big thing” as  ”a micro discussion platform that allows you to create discussion threads of topics of interest in fewer than…

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Yrn.me – Nigeria’s first URL Shortener Service

By Loy Okezie On February 8, 2010 · 20 Comments

Nigeria has made its own mark in the url shortening space with the launch of Yrn.me on February 4th, 2010.

Since Twitter limited web users to publishing not more than 140 characters, url shortening services have continued to populate…

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Nigeria is 9th Largest Country in Opera Mini Usage

By Loy Okezie On January 26, 2010 · 3 Comments

In the recently released State of the Mobile Web Report by Opera.com, Nigeria is the 9th largest country in the world in terms of Opera Mini usage pushing out Poland to become one of the Top 10…

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Nigeria’s web startups to watch in 2010!

By Loy Okezie On January 15, 2010 · 26 Comments

As we expect to see new and exciting web and mobile 2.0 startups and applications to be launched in 2010, I thought it would be nice to profile some of the start-ups that were launched in 2009 (or yet to…

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Google Zeitgeist 2009 for Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On December 1, 2009 · 5 Comments

Last year, I wrote about Google’s 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist for top and rising search words/phrases around the world and wondered why Google deliberately left out Nigerian top searches, but

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Glo Connect: Globacom’s Facebook App

By Loy Okezie On November 26, 2009 · 10 Comments

Globacom, Nigeria’s second largest mobile operator recently introduced a new service called Glo Connect that lets their subscribers and customers to interact with their friends, families and loved ones via Facebook.

Glo Connect is a service  that allows Glo…

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Another 1st from Starcomms!…Isn’t that MTN’s line?

By Loy Okezie On October 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

After about two weeks of announcing the launch of a new feature that allows their subscribers send Twitter updates via SMS on their mobile phones, Starcomms has today announced a new feature called Facebook…

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