Oluniyi D.Ajao
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How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile
Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. I [...]
Continue reading...BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report
Monday, December 21, 2009
BarCamp Ghana 2009 took off to a great start here at MEST in Accra with Patrick Awuah delivering the keynote address. He cited examples from his experience at Microsoft and his current experience with Ashesi University, to drive home the importance of key values like honesty, integrity, trust etc. The theme of this year’s event is [...]
Continue reading...Google URL Shortener brings attention to Greenland & is Google dominating the Internet?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Google Inc. yesterday announced the launch of their new URL shortener service: This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner that offer a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. We mentioned our URL shortener as a feature in both announcements, so we wanted to say a little [...]
Continue reading...West Africa ePayment Opportunity: Video Interview with Oluniyi David Ajao
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I was interviewed by Wayan Vota of ICTworks.org during the recent Maker Faire Africa 2009 in Accra Ghana and we discussed the present e-payment challenges in West Africa. A challenge that presents an opportunity since Paypal is ignoring Africa. The interview has just been published in a post titled: “Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on [...]
Continue reading...You can build a website with Google Sites
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I have just noticed a new service from Google. It is called Google Sites and it enables an average individual to build a website through a simple web interface. This is their pitch: “Google Sites makes creating and sharing a group website easy. Google Sites is powerful enough for a company Intranet, yet simple enough for [...]
Continue reading...My Location on Google Maps
Sunday, October 26, 2008
I discovered a Google Maps beta feature that had been on my PDA for several months now, just last night. I had only been using my I-Mate JAQ3 as a digital assistant, without using the phone functionality – no thanks to Tigo’s network access expiry. Tigo Ghana has a way of disabling one’s access to [...]
Continue reading...Cuil: A New Search Engine is born
Monday, July 28, 2008
A new search engine that is poised to offer a serious competition to search engine giant Google has been unveiled today. It is called Cuil (pronounced [ku?l], “cool”). It was founded by some former Google employees including a married couple: Anna Patterson and Tom Patterson. Other members of the founding team are: Russell Power and [...]
Continue reading...Google Adsense Referrals to be retired
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I got an email from Google Adsense this dawn: Hello, Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals programme. We will be retiring the AdSense Referrals programme during the last week of August. After that time, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads. The rest of the email gave instructions on how to remove Google Adsense Referrals [...]
Continue reading...Is Google Adsense working for Africa?
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Making money online with Google Adsense. Will I earn less if I reside in Africa?
Continue reading...Announcing Google Ghana
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Google Ghana: Google now has a version for Ghana.
Continue reading...If Microsoft buys Yahoo: What happens?
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The web was ablaze (still is) yesterday with news about Microsoft’s latest unsolicited offer to buy web portal giant Yahoo! for a whopping $44.6 billion in cash and shares. According to BBC News, the offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday. I am not entirely surprised [...]
Continue reading...Google Checkout and Paypal Express Checkout; Very convenient
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Not long after Google announced and launched their Google Checkout offering that Paypal increased the speed at which they introduced innovations. I dealt more with the Google/Paypal comparison in an earlier post. The essence of this post however, is to highlight the fact that some online shoppers would by far prefer using the checkout services, to [...]
Continue reading...Challenges with Doing Business On the Internet from Nigeria
Sunday, August 12, 2007
I came across an article at NigeriaGalleria.com just now, that not only highlights some of the challenges of doing business online from Nigeria, but also offers some solid advice on going around the challenges. It’s titled: “Obstacles to Conducting Internet Business in Nigeria“. These obstacles vary from the poor electricity supply in Nigeria, to the lack [...]
Continue reading...e-gold has a blog and Amazon has a payment system
Sunday, August 5, 2007
In case you missed the news just like I did, be informed that e-gold Ltd, operators of the e-gold digital currency, now have an official blog at http://blog.e-gold.com and its blogger so far is their Chairman/Founder: Dr. Douglas Jackson. The closing text of the very first blog entry, read: Anyone remotely familiar with e-gold knows that it [...]
Continue reading...Google Adsense Referrals
Monday, July 16, 2007
Google Adsense has now enabled a referral (pay-per-lead) system whereby website publishers have the opportunity to earn from ads on their websites based on a referral system. Ads displayed can either be in image or text format and the publisher can specify the country and category ads to be displayed. Earnings are based on how much [...]
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