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Lagos Startups Go Cloud – CloudCamp Lagos is May 28

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CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

Why Cloud Computing ?

  • The ability to scale your business and infrastructure — on demand with out capital outlay.
  • The ability to flow over (even if it’s just the coffee ordering system) — on demand without commitment.

Who should attend:
Anyone wishing to further Cloud Computing or just learn what all the fuss is about!

  • Developers, Architects, Analysts, IT Management and Executives, from App Dev through to Production.
  • Entrepreneurs, founders and leaders of start-up/early-stage companies, venture capitalists and industry analysts.

Reasons to attend:

  • Understand how to integrate Cloud Computing Services into your business
  • Find ways to cut fixed infrastructure costs while increasing reliability and scalability
  • Learn from from others about their use of Cloud Computing Services

Date
May 28th, 2011

Location
Lagos

Making Advertising Better – Nigerian Startup Bloovue Finds A Niche In Multiple Platforms

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There website is unbelievably simple and direct to business. No Contact (we did not see any). But they have a business idea. They want to make a better sense in the Nigeria ad business. Make it better, relevant and fun. Bloovue helps advertisers connect with their audiences by providing simple and affordable online advertising on the largest online publishers in Nigeria.

These are their key product features:

  • Wide Reach

    Bloovue publishers currently deliver about half a million pageviews every day; and that number is increasing as we work with more high-quality partners.

  • Simple & Easy to Use

    Bloovue is designed to be easy to use for anyone. You don’t have to be a technology guru or an advertising expert to get started.

  • Advertise on Mobile

    With about 50% of the local audience viewing from the web, you can’t afford not to advertise on the fastest growing medium of the moment.

  • Multiple Ad Formats

    Display, hybrid or mobile ads. You can pick which format you’ll use for your ads – and you don’t need a degree in graphic arts to start.

Bloovue: Bloovue helps advertisers connect with their audiences by providing simple and affordable online advertising on the largest online publishers in Nigeria.

Myspace is Myspace Problem – We Want to Purchase Myspace and Run It with Personality

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There is news all over the web that Myspace is looking for a buyer. By this piece, Tekedia submits a bid. We are ready to pay N10,000 (ten thousand Nigerian Naira) to acquire the domain – only. We do not need the staff and underlying technology behind Myspace. We are very certain that Myspace has been poorly managed and the owners missed the direction of the Internet evolution.

The web began with anonymity and then moved to identification. Myspace did not anticipate and understand how the internet had interacted with humanity. That was why they are allowing dogs and chickens to how profiles thereby killing a very promising web phenomenon.

I recalled the day I created an account and logged into Myspace. It took few minutes to see some very troubling profiles. I left and have never gone to the site except to bookmark it for this article. I know what to do to get Myspace back to live. Forget about Facebook, that is not the problem of Myspace. Myspace is the problem of Myspace. If they can agree on it and do what is right, that engine will come back.

Of course, we do not give unsolicited advice. If they need help, they can contact us at Tekedia and we will help. But we want to buy and within three months transform it into an engine of growth – as it used to be. The first part will be cleaning the ultra conservative heritage of the News Corp that offended many liberals. Many could not just stomach helping Fox News – many have this sentiment. News Corp killed Myspace and if they go, the site will be back. I know of five people that left just because News Corp bought it.

Tekedia will send the cheque immediately if Myspace can email tekedia@fasmicro.com and we take delivery of the domain. Let us help you get over this tough time. We are certain we will revitalize that product and position it for growth through four simply ways.

Pitch Your Idea at Nigeria Tech Open Day, May 5, Lagos

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Nigerian web entrepreneurs will host a Tech Open Day through which they they will introduce their products to Sarah Lacy – an  editor at TechCrunch .  It will also be an opportunity to network with other active members of the Nigerian startup community.

Date: Thursday, May 05, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Some selected startups that will demo on the day include:

Bloovue: Bloovue helps advertisers connect with their audiences by providing simple and affordable online advertising on the largest online publishers in Nigeria.
Pagatech: Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who has a mobile phone to transact electronically – thus turning the mobile phone into an electronic wallet.

Precurio: Precurio is a complete intranet solution designed for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It is an open source intranet platform that combines a comprehensive package of collaborative and social networking tools with robust reporting, workflow and enterprise content management.

 

This is free program and registration is here

 

Remembering Cuil – The Search Engine That Went .gone

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As the world reads about the death of Flock – the social medical browser, Tekedia will like to recall the death of Cuil – the search engine that imagined annihilating Google. Of course that did not work out.

However, most of the brains behind Cuil are working in Google today. That is just the best part. Yes, some were ex-Googlers before they conspired to bring down the house that housed them. They failed, badly

Cuil was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages.  It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil’s servers were shut down on September 17, 2010, with later confirmations the service had ended.

Cuil was managed and developed largely by former employees of Google, Anna Patterson and Russell Power.  PC Magazine reported that on the morning of September 17, 2010 “employees were told about Cuil’s demise […] and the servers were taken offline five hours later.”Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid. The shutdown reportedly came after an acquisition agreement fell through earlier in the week.

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