Facebook to Launch App Centre
Facebook recently announced that it will be launching “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps” in form of its own App Centre. This App Centre will not be for only Facebook apps but will serve as a portal for meeting all your app needs – Desktop, Mobile and Web. Facebook seems to be attempting to solve the problem of App Discovery which seems to plague... Read More
LGTNigeria Pulls Tweets and Pushes Them Into A Lagos Traffic Map
LGTNigeria has launched a live traffic map for Lagos, Nigeria. LGT is an acronym for “Let’s Go There”. The service relies on Google Maps and pulls tweets from the prolific @Gidi_Traffic and @trafficbutter. The Lagos traffic map is data driven and uses the Twitter API to filter and cleverly interpret the tweets from both accounts. To view traffic reports on a certain... Read More
Mobile Web West Africa 2012: Top 10 Tweets
If you missed the entire event that was Mobile Web West Africa and you also missed the hashtag #mwwa2012, here are the top 10 live tweets from the event. ‘Local content, simplicity and accessibility are the key to success.’ Read @samokocha‘s report from #MWWA2012: vc4afri.ca/vkn5y — Bertil van Vugt (@brutuz) April 30, 2012 “…when you showcase... Read More
Facebook Introduces Facebook Offers [VIDEO]
Facebook has finally entered the deal offering industry with the newly introduced Facebook Offers. Facebook Offers works like any other deal offering service except the deals show up on your News Feed and you claim deals through the same feed. To get an offer, a page you’ve ‘Liked’ has to have created the offer. You then redeem it by clicking ‘Get Offer’.... Read More
How To Access Picnik After It Shuts Down
Picnik shuts down tomorrow. For some that can’t live without it this is going to be very frustrating because there aren’t so many online photo editors that are up to par with Picnik. The thing is they’re only shutting down the domain, but the features live on – in Google+. What does this mean? It means you’re going to have to sign in/signup for Google+... Read More
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion
Facebook just announced that they would be acquiring photo-sharing app, Instagram for an estimated $1 billion in ” a combination of cash and shares of Facebook.” Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the acquisition on his timeline saying “in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features... Read More
MTN Subscribers Irate Over Sudden Loss Of Airtime
UPDATE: MTN has issued a statement on its official Twitter page acknowledging the problem and assuring customers that they intend to refund whatever amount of money deducted. MTN Subcribers went on a Twitter rampage earlier today to signal their disgust over the most recent MTN goof, which saw subscribers lose all their airtime. Sanusi Ismaila, an MTN employee on Twitter took... Read More
Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg Tells Goodluck Jonathan To Quit Facebook [VIDEO]
Here’s a parody video from OurOwnArea. It’s an animation of a phone dialogue between Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In the video, Goodluck Jonathan is browsing his Facebook page on a Mac, then he gets a notification of “32,000 curses” on his wall. He then receives a call from “That Facebook Boy”... Read More
Twitter Opens Promoted Products For Small Businesses
Twitter has launched Promoted Products for Small Businesses. Promoted Products is its ad platform consisting of promoted tweets and accounts. This means there’ll be more ads on Twitter than you’ve seen before. The service is in partnership with American Express and is currently available via a special invite. Businesses who sign up for the service with get $100 in ad... Read More
Get Instagram For Android Before It Hits Google Play
iOS photo-sharing service Instagram announced at SXSW that they’ll be launching an Android version of their popular app. The app was also showcased. Instagram is sending invites to people who sign up on the instagram Android page. So if you want Instagram for Android before it hits Google Play, register your email address here. Seems like Instagram can’t ignore Android... Read More
