Google Plus is Google’s latest and best attempt at a social networking website. It obviously draws a lot of lessons from Google’s previous attempts like Google Buzz, Google Wave, Orkut etc. I got an invitation to join Google Plus from a good friend, and I am loving it so far. It comes with a lot [...]

GTBank announced the passing of their former Managing Director a few minutes ago, via Facebook and Twitter: We regret to announce the passing on of our CEO, Tayo Aderinokun, today, aged 56. As MD, Mr. Aderinokun led the Bank to the top of the banking industry and the Bank became the 1st sub-saharan bank to [...]

The Nokia N8, launched in October 2010, is a feature-packed multimedia smartphone from the stables of Nokia. From Wikipedia: The Nokia N8 is a Symbian^3 smartphone from the Nokia Nseries. Featuring Carl Zeiss optics and xenon flash, the N8 is the first Nokia camera phone to utilize a 12 megapixel camera sensor size of 1/1.83?, [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. I recently got a message from Regina, a reader of this blog in Kenya. She asked: Tell me, how does one start a blog? I can see you have a very nice blog and I was wondering [...]

A recent observation has compelled me to reflect on the title of this blog post: Is Blogging A Calling? Who said blogging was easy? Why do so many blogs fail? The focus of my observation is on the multitudes of personal blogs that have closed shop and those on indefinite leave of absence. For the [...]

Have you seen the new Digg.com? It not only spots a new interface but has also added multitudes of new functionalities. The new Digg offers its users a much-more fulfilling experience by making the business of sharing news very easy and straight-forward. Digg was the place to watch for the trending news from across the [...]

I recently had a short interview with Chris-Vincent, founder of Africadiscuss.com, an all african forum aimed at providing a platform for Africans and those of interest in Africa to discuss issues of common concern. Enjoy. Chris-Vincent: I am Chris-Vincent a law student at the University of East London in the UK. I am a Ghanaian [...]

President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has been making waves among the young Nigerian populace on social networking website Facebook in recent times. Through a Facebook page opened on 28th June 2010, he has systematically been sharing his belief in Nigeria and his dream for Nigeria. Things seem to be looking very good for him so [...]

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Ranking is a part of our everyday life. It [...]

GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post titled “How to be a better blogger“, Kenyatykoon asked: “how should i ask for back links from blogs that are more popular than mine but in the same niche?? there are a few [...]