Tim Akinbo’s Blog
the web, mobile technology and location based services as I see it
Archive for March, 2009
Why I’m a Map Maker
In: GIS|Web Development
23 Mar 2009I remember the first time I used Google Maps. I was thrilled with the ability to find places and locate them on a digital map. That was my first exposure to Geographic Information Systems. But I quickly grew out of it after a while and what was majorly because of the lack of localized information. [...]
- (17) Comments
- Tags: Google, LBS, Maps, Mashups
Why every Web Developer needs an online presence
In: Web Development
20 Mar 2009It’s simple – visibility. Loy Okezie recently published a blog post listing a few of what he thinks to be the top 100 web developers in Nigeria. I found the comments to be very educative and interesting. I happen to know virtually everyone on that list and while some comments on the site and elsewhere [...]
- (10) Comments
- Tags: Publicity
Internal web server access from the Internet
In: Web Development
20 Mar 2009Here’s the synopsis, I have a web development machine that has a NAT connection to the Internet and what that means is that I cannot access the machine directly from the Internet. So if I wanted a friend or colleague to test my work or say I’m at someplace remote and want to be able [...]
- (4) Comments
- Tags: Apache, Linux, SSH
Google’s Free SMS Search in Nigeria and Ghana
In: Mobile
3 Mar 2009I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon (no pun intended) this very exciting news but I did realize that this had been out since January and I only got to know about it today and that’s precisely the reason why I’m blogging about it. It’s come to my notice that a lot of good, [...]
- (7) Comments
- Tags: Google, Nigeria, SMS, Telecoms
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- Daniel: Thanks Tim for coming over! Icant $get that day to me that was like a boost to my skills I was thnki [...]
- Iyinoluwa Balogun: i think curiousity comes first. those who have left footprints in the sands of time started by quest [...]
- Kizito S.M.: What I gather is that this G-Buzz is something like a blend between Facebook Updates and Twitter fol [...]
- concept37: They are trying to out-facebook facebook and out-twitter twitter, Folks who want to do these things [...]
- ray: Funny u took it from the LBS angle, which makes better sense. But from the social networking perspec [...]
- How it was done – Nigerian postcode data extraction
- Nigerian postcodes – a case for open data
- Just how buzz-worthy?
- Blacklisting Nigeria
- Thirsty?
- When unique isn’t really unique
- Google Latitude Apps Review (Location History and Alerts)
- Kindle for PC?
- Web APIs and Mashups Seminar in Jos
- Using git hooks to check syntax errors