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Twitter is breaking coherent thought into a million pieces. 20 Jul 2013 | 03:22 pm
Let the title not mislead you, I have great respect for what twitter has become and the of course the people that have built it and have a few buddies there (this is where I do the obligatorily ‘famz...
Here’s Why You Should Participate At Hackathons 22 Jun 2013 | 01:41 pm
The word ‘hackathon’ stems from a play on the word hacking and marathon. The idea is to quickly build something in a compressed time period. Usually between a few hours to a couple of days. I think h...
Lagos, Nigeria: When Tech Met Health 15 Jun 2013 | 01:02 am
It was when I got the 10th Blackberry broadcast informing me that someone needed blood somewhere in the country that I thought “there should be an app for this”. I wondered if it would be possible to...
How Foursquare Can Go From Cool To Profitably Useful 6 May 2013 | 11:13 pm
TL;DR: I believe that if Foursquare focuses on helping visitors (aiding discovery) rather than regulars (tracking visits) of any location, it will go from being cool to useful and help influence spend...
GBEDU.FM: Next Steps And A Few Thoughts 8 Apr 2013 | 06:48 pm
You must have seen Loy’s post. GBEDU.FM as a product is far from dead. Moving servers just took longer than planned. It was down but not out. As a startup though, GBEDU.FM was in zombie mode. When GBE...
Why I am Having A 2 Factor Authentication Easter Party. 27 Mar 2013 | 03:11 am
TL;DR: My mum’s email and Facebook were broken into. Although we know how to protect ourselves online, some of our family members (especially parents) are vulnerable. This Easter holiday, while munc...
Why The Internet Has To Be Censored And Regulated. 28 Nov 2012 | 02:43 pm
I wrote this during the fight against SOPA. However, like many other posts, I did not get around to publishing it. I recently came across Google’s take action campaign that is against the plot by gove...
GLO’s ‘nationwide hotspot’ is a big deal. 23 Nov 2012 | 01:43 pm
There are two things I’ve got to give to Globacom, Nigeria’s second national telecommunication carrier. There are bloody spammers as well as innovators in the telco space – at least when it comes to b...
This Picture’s Got A Pun In It 12 Nov 2012 | 04:57 pm
I took this picture of the Lekki toll gate using the panorama feature in Prosper Onogberie’s SONY Xperia phone. I then realized it was a pun in itself. So I named it “Traffic Taking Its Toll”. Clic...
Why African Startups (Should) Seek Validation From Silicon Valley. 4 Nov 2012 | 12:20 am
Victor Asemota wrote an interesting post. In summary, he was responding to another post in which winners of an African Startup competition were being congratulated/celebrated because they were “headin...
