Due to the extraordinary explosion in video, blogs, news feeds and social network postings, the internet is dangerously close to running out of room. Nothing can grow forever, and exponential growth is always short lived. We're running out of disk space, so if you have something left to say, better hurry. Once it's full, it's full. Of course, the decentralized nature of the net means that it will never be p ...

Recent statistics show that: Over 900 million people worldwide use Facebook. Half of them login every single day and spend 55 minutes on Facebook. It has been often said that if Facebook were a country it would be the third largest after China and India ·         21.8 billion videos are viewed on YouTube each month. ·         Facebook is the second most visited site in the world and the first in Nigeria If ...

Perception is stronger than reality.  You must have heard this statement somewhere or may be you are hearing it for the first time. The truth is that your reputation can go a long way to stop you from accessing most opportunities in life especially your online reputation. Just Google your name and see what comes out. Just like the trend of searching online before buying a product or service is increasing, m ...

As the internet business is booming in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, many people are beginning to realize the need for a website. But most Nigerians hastily constructed their website and then promptly forgot about it; One of their most valuable marketing assets, now relegated to the back burner, becomes just another business disbursement. Remember: the more popular your website is, the more benef ...

One major tool for business growth every Nigerian should take advantage of in this internet age is blogs. Blogs are no longer just personal diaries as they use to be. The business case for blogging is compelling. Corporate Blogging refers to a company producing or supporting a blog that it uses to accomplish business objectives. Too many marketers focus on gaining initial visibility through advertising or a ...

Online scam is on the rise in Nigeria as the internet marketing business is on the increase a typical example of tars (weed) growing amidst the wheat. It's often difficult to tell if an email is legitimate. A friend of mine that travelled to the US recently sent a mail to his wife in Nigeria, in which he requested she pays Five Hundred Thousand Naira into an account he gave him. In less than five minutes, t ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programmes and the internet, has died at the age of 88. He died from acute kidney failure at his California home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, said one of his daughters, Diana Engelbart Mangan. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, when mainframe computers took up entire rooms and were fed ...