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Web APIs and Mashups Seminar in Jos
In: Events| General| Web Development
16 Nov 2009I spent last week in the city of Jos where I went to spend some time with my family and also attend my class reunion. I had an idea to organize a seminar where I’ll teach and talk about anything I thought would be cool and constitute new knowledge.
So I went about contacting some of [...]
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.
I [...]
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- Tags: Google, LBS, Maps, Mashups
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, exciting, [...]
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- Tags: Google, Nigeria, SMS, Telecoms
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- Kizito S.M.: What I gather is that this G-Buzz is something like a blend between Facebook Updates and Twitter fol [...]
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- ray: Funny u took it from the LBS angle, which makes better sense. But from the social networking perspec [...]
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