Who is the best actor in Nollywood. I just have many candidates, It surely has to be one of the comedians because I believe we have some of the best comedians in the World here in Nigeria.

I hope it will be a good show.

I sincerely think Boondocks Season 3 is cool. They may have overdone a couple of things but it wasn't a disappointment at all. It was great, though may be not as good as the past 2 seasons

@tpiah. May be that implies engagement. Users on the sites with millions of posts are more engaged with the site and other users than those on Nairaland. Remmember, Most of the Posts could be spam, Many forum owners even pay people to post (very true).

@MRbrownJAY I agree with you some users have 2 accounts for underground moves or some are forgotten accounts. but I don't think there number is much. I still believe Nairaland is in the 500k user range and if u look at the numbers, the site is still growing fast. (by the way, nice new account name )

@Seun Yea correct. Nairaland has been #1 in Nigeria on Alexa most visited sites for a long time. I wrote details on why and how I think Nairaland did this on my blog link above, It would be good if you check out what I have written and make clear what needs to be. Expecting a discussion there,

I have been looking at Nairalands growth. I got excited when the forum first reached a quarter of a million users (250,000 users). Now at Half a million users, I believe the site achieved this for 3 reasons,

1. Its first mover advantage. Nairaland has been around since 2001. <<Admin Says: No, March 2005>>

2. Viral growth.

3. User engagement.

What do you think?

I explain my points in detail here naijastartups..com/2010/06/startup-lessons-3-ways-nairaland-got-so.html

Very true, and as far as Nigeria is concerned, they mostly invest in Oil companies and Telecom operators, NOT innovations.

Around 550,000 members. More Than half a million users,  Nairaland has become an influential online force. I do the analysis on my blog naijastartups..com/2010/04/nairaland-reaches-milestone-half.html

What factors do you think made Nairaland so popular and so successful,

Is it because it has been around for long?

It has lots of articles?

Sweet gists and interesting discussions?

You name it, I wanna hear your opinions Nairalanders!

Yeah there are but the probability of being funded to be sincere is very slim.

Here is a list of Venture Capital firms that operate in Nigeria naijastartups..com/2010/06/venture-capital-funds-for-nigerian.html

I dont agree with mama-gee. The music videos have gotten much better and improved quality over recent years.

@Donpuzo I will have to agree with @pc guru about facebook being heavily scripted with Ajax and so on, especially now that they are more real-time.
Once you talk of twitter and facebook, they have a simple idea and approach, but they have to be well built for performance.
Good design does not need to be overdone for it to be good. simple does it. Again I have no doubt in Nigerian designers ability to code or work with graphics. but the purpose of design is all about sending the right message to the user and make the user take the action you want. And in that field my friend, most (remember not all) Nigerian brand websites have failed.

I wrote my detailed observations here http://naijastartups..com/2010/04/nigerian-brand-websites-need-to-be-on.html

Allahu Akbar!

Used to spend a lot of time on FB. now FB is getting boring and I guess I can learn a lot on NL. so expect to see a lot of me

Learning to handle the code is very important. There are things with CSS that you need to know and not to rely on dreamweaver to do. As for photoshop you can get someone very good to do it if you are ver down with your code.

@ FOTOMUMU, is it your first project? I would love to see how it turns out.

@NEO Spot on. The truth is nobody wants to learn further. I must say, I am really impressed by the links you sent. If you read my post at http://naijastartups..com You would see that, I meant Nigerian designers have talent but still Nigerian brands don't use the web to send the right message. I mean they feel like just putting up a site is good enough. ( that still falls under the "nobody wants to learn further" because most don't bother. The truth is GUI is really really important and it is what made Facebook Facebook.

@FOTOMUMU nice design n concept/idea. Its good, I would try tho to focus the fotos more on Nigeria (the white pics r interesting too) and add geo-tagging to the whole system. (just my 2cents, I may be wrong)

@Incarnate 8k to learn web design,  haba no wonder.

I have always been worried about why we lag behind in design innovation even though we have very good coders. We are improving, but we really need to be on the cutting edge with 11 million Internet users.

I think we are about 2 years behind or more in webdesign tech. If you have something to say, I am listening or go to
http://naijastartups..com/2010/04/nigerian-brand-websites-need-to-be-on.html

Where I give my complete argument.

There are many sites now you can watch African movies. The only problem, many are a bit buggy and you can hardly find a complete movie on Youtube. I believe amongst the ones listed here. You can find one that is smooth.

#javalove AKA Mr Cowbell.

"peak" was a mistake, probably i got carried away by the Milk I was drinking when I typed it.

I'm just sayin'

I'll peak Wande Coal over many Nigerian artists anyday,

My Favorite TV show is Entourage. Mehnn I love that showw,

I don't know what is wrong with the people at Time Magazing, But in no where those pictures can represent Nollywood.

Despite most of the pictures are disgusting, I must say, some are really interesting takes, especially the injured soldier.

Would love to see the picture quality and effects, for a price tag of $10 m it has to be great quality.