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All The Ideas Pitched at Garage48 Lagos

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Check out the ideas pitched at Garage48 Lagos 2011!

Here are the ideas pitched at Garage48 Lagos:

  1. MecaniClick – get a mechanic on-line, or via SMS. Somebody who has a good track reckord or is specialized on your type of the car. Web based system.
  2. FTube (Facebook Youtube) – extract all the videos from Facebook and watch them as they would be on Youtube. Revenue share with the owners of the video, focus on the web app.
  3. Extramil.es – making the “heling of other individuals” more effective. Extramiles will help you to sign up as an volunteer and donate your time for volunteer work. Referral based system. Monetized through enterprize service – corporates have to pay, advertisement and donations.
  4. Parkbench – Meet people to share the interests. See who’s near you and what are their interests. Helps real-life introductions. Combines location, people, and interests in mobile and web.
  5. Lecture Wall – an educational networking site and on-line educational community. Lecturers and students can meet. Lecturers can sell their lecture materials, students can get the materials and teachings.
  6. City Explorer – Applications helping to explore your city and promotes local businesses. Improve the search results for the off-line businesses. On mobile and web. Helps to search for your places of interests.
  7. MyCash – For people who track their expenses: people who need to budget (eg. students) can track and share their expenses. Through sharing others can also find good deals on the products and services or just the fact that the purchase was made. A mobile app.
  8. TellMeTraffic – community driven trafic chattig app, to share the traffic information. Web based app accessible through mobile. People are very bored in 3 hour Lagos traffic jams.
  9. Qmash – a data mashup, which allows its users to search for pictures, video, and music, later to download on the PC. Helps with format problems, since this is done on-line.
  10. Evrica Events – event management system for Africa. Helps creating events and searching the events. Event publicity, registration and participation. A social booking system.
  11. Nigerian Food Recipe Web and Mobile Solution – web app with recepies and guidelines (even videos) to make Nigerian food.
  12. TalentME – system for Nigerians who like to express themselves helping to share their talents (singing, dancing) leading to profitable ends. Place to show-case yourself. Source of leads for talent hunters.
  13. Tagwire – Location based search engine / social network facilitating contacts between individuals (helps finding a new girlfriend who plays chess). Money: premium accounts.
  14. VeriPORT – On-line stock verification, stockbroker verification, news and events. To verify stock details in Nigeria takes 3-4 weeks.
  15. iGetSkills – Bring people together with different skill set, help them collaborate, start up ideas and give a platform to sell their services.
  16. Flippii – for Nigerian developers – share ideas and get feedback. Interested developers can join the project.
  17. thisRoad – help people to present traffic solutions for their routes, influence the authorities. On web and mobile.
  18. Banner Exchange Network – digitizing the print banners, and broadcast it on the Facebook through the network of broadcasters – through tagging their friends on the add photos.
  19. isThis – is this a good food, nice place, a bad person etc. Take a picture and ask the question – an app for simple feedback for stuff you see and can take pictures of. Money – advertising.
  20. One Word per Day – Getting local languages into and out of the Google Translator. A simple translation service. Helps to spread the language into the world with adding a language to google translate. Web and mobile app.
  21. Me and my Celeb – allows to hang out with your celeb and interact with them.
  22. Customer Service Aggregation Agency – customer service is terrible in Nigeria. A service for companies to employ students to be used as call center agents. People can sign up as potential call center workers have a training (learning about the company and the product) – makes the call service available for smaller businesses.
  23. iDemocracy – follow politics/elections with your mobile. Put politics on-line, create a track reckord for politicians.
  24. Yarn something – Piggeon English dictionary – help others to understand how people are talking in Nigeria.
  25. Social E-Learning – Social network for e-learning on web and mobile.

 

From the official site

The Future of Yahoo – The Path To Profitability? Implications of Search Alliance With Microsoft

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At last Yahoo! Buzz was shutdown. Yahoo! had told Buzz users that the site service will not be available after April 21. And so it was!

 

“Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site,” a note posted on Yahoo! said. “This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.” said Yahoo

 

Yahoo had launched Buzz in 2008, giving users a community platform where they could share news stories. It was supposed to be a competitor to website like Digg and Reddit. But for some strange reasons, never endeared itself to users.

 

 

Yahoo’s decision to pull plug on Buzz was first reported in December last year when a confidential slide got leaked on twitter. The same slide claimed that Yahoo would also shut down Delicious, Yahoo Picks and Yahoo Bookmarks. Of these services, Buzz is the first one to close down officially. The slide claimed that shutting down of aforementioned services was necessary for the company to return to profit after 2011.

 

 

Among others, Yahoo! Picks and Yahoo! Bookmarks were touted as the weak pawns for Yahoo!, and that the axe would fall on them, too. However, at the end, it is the Buzz that has been silenced.

 

Yahoo has also stated that it will now extend the length of time it keeps search data to 18 months, bringing it in line with rivals and marking a significant backtrack on its privacy promises. Yahoo previously kept search information for only 90 days after a decision in late 2008 to take the lead as the most privacy-conscious search engine. Now it rejoins Google and Microsoft, both of which keep search logs for 18 months.

 

 

Yahoo used to anonymise data after roughly three months by cutting out parts of users’ IP addresses, altering cookies, and deleting other personal information that could lead to identification of a user. It’s not certain if Yahoo will continue to do this after 18 months, but even if it does the move marks a six-fold increase in the time Yahoo will keep records on file. More worryingly, Yahoo indicated that it might also keep other kinds of user information for longer periods.

 

 

“Yahoo is absolutely backtracking from what had been an industry-leading position,” Erica Newland, a policy analyst at privacy watchdog group Center for Democracy & Technology, told Associated Press.

 

 

It’s not entirely clear why Yahoo decided to reverse its earlier promises, but the deal last year with Microsoft to combine their search engine efforts might have had something to do with it. Since Bing operates on an 18-month cycle before deleting logs Microsoft might have asked Yahoo to fall in line if it’s using its search algorithms.

 

Google West Africa – Business Innovation via Armies of Entrepreneurs. Final Looks At G-Ghana, G-Senegal, G-Ghana

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Tekedia Intelligence Lab has received reports from Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria on the Google events in those nations. Google just completed them. Our editors are getting them combined. We will publish this report on Monday. Generally, Google must be commended for finding interests in the youth and people of West Africa. We think this model is sustainable. We are working hard to get these reports and more presentation slides out.

 

If you attended this program and made a presentation, please email that to tekedia@fasmicro.com. We have received a few and will be running them here from Monday.

 

Similarly, our correspondents are sending live updates on Garage48. We hope to run a summary also, very soon.

 

Techopenday will be completed also.

 

The truth is that our editors are also practitioners and that makes time very precious.

 

Check Tekedia for the latest and up events, news, perspectives….on technology, across Africa.

 

Tekedia – be here

Status of the Garage48 Lagos Teams at Saturday 12:00

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Status of the Garage48 Lagos teams at Saturday 12:00

 

Notice: The Organizers have pulled this offline. But we have it here.

 

May 07, 2011
We had a status update checkpoint for all teams. Teams working hard and results are interesting!

Extramile.es
Came together as a team, made sure all have the same understanding about the project. Divided tasks by speciality of the team members. Put up the front-page to get people interested in it. Focusing on 2-3 scenarios – the architecture is in place.
Problems – none.

 

 

Parkbench
Done with UI design. Backend team has done the database structures and coding and are currently working on PHP backend components. One guy is hacking on mobile client. Currently getting the domain name and looking for hosting.
Problem – not sure if the mobile version will be ready by tomorrow

 

 

Lecture wall
Done the UI, homepage is ready but not on-line. Next steps – to make the backend and get the study materials for the content.
Problem: Little trouble with monetization.

 

 

City Explorer
Work going on with the back-end and front-end. No front end and design yet. Focussing on the business model.
Problems – none.

 

 

My Cash
Done with the UI design. Working on front-end – using google web-toolkit. Backend is done. Mobile client is on the way. Fremium model for monetization. Today – web UI must be done.
Problems: Android aspect and open-id integration.

 

Evrica Events
Understanding reached, feature list for the 48h and the todo list in place. DB design ready. Today, a number of features to be implemented. Front-end almost ready, working on the design. The domain name has been claimed: http://www.evricaevents.com
Problems: Payment gateway – will not be able to implement in 48h.

 

 

Flippii – http://flippii.com | Facebook
30% done. Design is done, UI is done. DB architecture is done, no back-end yet. Domain name taken and hosting is ready
Next – backend today / tomorrow.
Problems: Marketing and monetization

 

Customer Service Aggregation Agency
Working on the fron-end – design ready, logo ready, some of the front-end. Login works. Little bit done on back end
Need: integration with twilio (clowd phone services).
Problem: integration of twilio with Android app.

 

 

Choulix!

Nigerian Food Recipe Web and Mobile Solution. Finalized on the name – will have website and mobile web app. Trying to provide the recepies focusing on Nigeria, by dividing Nigeria into zones of food culture.
Done with name: Choulix. Logo and design. Some of the J2ME app is done and Black Berry App as well.
Plans: Partnering with local chefs.
For updates, visit the official site

Updated Links To Google Nigeria Presentations (May 07 2011)

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Here are the slides for Google Nigeria 2011

 

 

  • • Web-as-a-platform: Chrome for Developers

 

 

  • Webmaster Tools for Business