City Profile: Ibadan, Nigeria
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Free access to Nigeria’s ‘Sun News Online’ web stats
August 29, 2010 – 8:25 pm | View Comments
Free access to Nigeria’s ‘Sun News Online’ web stats

For some reason, the online traffic analytics of one of Nigeria’s top news outlets, The Sun News Online, are available to the public. That’s right – a hyperlink inviting visitors to “View My Stats” exists …

Africa’s life cycle assessment (LCA) initiatives, past and present
August 29, 2010 – 3:58 pm | View Comments
Africa’s life cycle assessment (LCA) initiatives, past and present

Not surprisingly, the concept of life cycle assessment (LCA) is not widespread in Africa (a bevy of information exists on the related subject of sustainable consumption and production, but more on that later). After all, …

Clever advertisement for eTXT service (email to SMS)
August 26, 2010 – 2:03 am | View Comments

It’s a no-brainer. Walk more than 5 kilometers to the nearest cyber café or simply use a standard mobile phone to send e-mail. Well, ForgetMeNot Africa, a specialist in unified messaging for telecommunications operators, has …

AVG ranks safest web-surfing nations; as usual, take with a grain of salt
August 26, 2010 – 1:14 am | View Comments
AVG ranks safest web-surfing nations; as usual, take with a grain of salt

Good news for Africa’s world image, even if the data is misleading. A study by online security company AVG recently determined that Internet users in the Caucasus region (Turkey, Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) have the …

A reminder to keep web content up-to-date
August 22, 2010 – 8:54 pm | View Comments
A reminder to keep web content up-to-date

Certain aspects of websites need not be “uniquely African”. In particular, maintaining overall site functionality and optimizing user experience are universal duties of any webmaster. This does not mean every African site coded under HTML …

Google, Microsoft Africa blogs relatively dormant
August 17, 2010 – 1:28 am | View Comments
Google, Microsoft Africa blogs relatively dormant

Despite the resources at their disposal, neither the Google Africa or Microsoft Africa blogs or Twitter accounts post frequent updates. In fact, the Google Africa Blog, although contributing multiple posts during the month of June, …