We learnt a valuable lesson today: test, test and test your products. After any upgrades or changes. Keep testing! An upgrade on GstMe http://gstme.com meant new users couldnt register via the mobile version, and we didnt know until some loyal fans drew our attention to it! (We noticed our number of new signups where...
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Simple Arithmetric. If Businesses are meant to serve people, and Facebook has millions of people actively on it, doesnt it make sense to optimise your Facebook presence? But these same entrepreneurs have just 50 facebook friends and say facebook is for their friends only… NO Facebook is the new TV, use it to build...
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The internet and tools like Google, Youtube, Wikipedia and Slideshare amidst thousands of others have made it very easy to find information about anything! You can now effectively learn anything over the internet. In this Internet age, we have no shortage of information. Information is great. Information is important — but it’s only part...
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The federal government of Nigeria has a new programme called Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN!) to help young people with innovative ideas to get funding and mentorship. One of the major aims of the competition is to generate jobs by encouraging and supporting young entrepreneurs to develop business ideas that will lead...
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I was preparing some Post UTME students for their online test, and so asked a girl amongst them to try her fingers on a trial test. The trial test was to check how prepared she was and to know if she knew how to use the computer system. I got confused when she looked...
Read more →Simple is beautiful; that is one of our core principles at Omnific Labs, but on the other hand good things need to be improved upon, afterall the biggest room in the world is the room for improvements and the competition is always fierce! So, in our quest to improve our products how do we...
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Sheriff Shitu at Webtrendsng.com blogged earlier this month about the state of e-commerce in Nigeria, urging us to “start a conversation around e-commerce in Nigeria”. Another Techie: Pascal Ehigie Aito (@Pystar) has been sharing his views on the issue on his blog, most interesting articles on the issue should be: this, and this, and...
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For some weeks now I’ve been studying Nigerian web start-ups, old and new, and noticed a general trend: Nigerians just don’t seem to embrace Nigerian web products & services. There are so many cool Nigerian sites that just aren’t getting the much needed traction. Check out Nigerian social networking sites, 98% of them are...
Read more →When I started writing a set of PHP source codes in August 2009, I never really put much thought into it. There was this terrible strike that ran from late May to early October, I was becoming idle and that was a danger in itself, I started by re-programming RiRanWo! (My social media site)...
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