₦airaland Forum

There is a bright side to this, that is, with the advent of this GNBO and other google-nigeria initiatives and partnerships, maybe and just maybe, there will be a lift on the ban against Nigerians from making use of highly sought after payment processors like paypal and the freedom to do business with Nigerians.

But the bottom line remains the same: Nigeria is still growing (and is still a baby) in the cyber world. The earlier we learn to stand on our own by creating our own portals and applications (thank God for outstanding programmers especially here on NL) instead of holding strong to google for dependence, income and stability, the better for our internet webosphere.

We have a big problem of NOT patronizing our own services and inventions.

Example 1:

Everyone wants to make use of getresponse and aweber for email marketing. BUT we have clicknreach.com which is effective and cheap!

Example 2:

There is a standard body created for web designers of which members will be screened before joining to ensure credibility. I am talking of webmastersofafrica.com created by a Nigeria (i hope i am right, so correct me if am wrong), yet we as web designers DONT patronize them (me inclusive).

Example 3:

We always clamor for godaddy and hostgator, etc while we have reliable web hosts in Nigeria like trudigits and syskay, etc. Personally, i patronize home made hosting companies>>>syskay and theExpertHost.

We have a few originals here in Nigeria, why dont we promote and patronize them?

Google is the best, but believe me, we can let them understand that WITHOUT them, we can still excel! That should at least start giving us some credibility.

The strictness of google is just in the excess. Originality counts here! If only Nigerians can come up with an original concept of ads management for Nigerians, google will lose the nigerian market. We really dont need a thousand policies from google before we earn their pennies. Thats called being cheap! Another major problem we have is that we dont value what we have, just like adplacers.com

They are making it look like frying akara.

What specifically do you mean by doing things right when it comes to adsense?

case study 1, if google acquires all the ads network/providers, then they tighten their policies which MAY affect Nigerians, 90 percent of nigerians who depend on adsense for a living will go hungry! The effects of an economic dictator.

I can predict that google will soon acquire NL, once you have the crowd and traffic you are for google. Its like blood money, enjoy it while it lasts for the end is imminent. Internet rules 60 % of the global economy, and google rules the internet (at least 70%). Pheeeew

Webhost? Try trudigits.com OR syskay.com Highly recommended.

It baffles me alot to see how google expands by taking out their competition by acquisition. They are taking control of everything that's related to the internet and i feel we are getting to the point where the internet will be useless without google! Have you watched a movie where the global economy or lifestyle rests on the shoulders of a giant computer program where a small misharp crumbles human existence? Now google wants to control 40k businesses in nigeria through its GNBO stuff. We cant compete with them, but we can shut them out by creating our own system. Or we help them fasten the END of days!!

Well, for publishers, its all about the money. Maybe we dont really know much about adplacers and their benefits. If its more profitable, then why not use them. They have a deal with nairaland so if you are an advertiser, your ads must be displayed on NL and two other sites. Better still, maybe we can ask seun more questions as their website does not give much explanations. Cheers.

most newspapers think they will sell more when all they publish is mainly politics (which all Nigerians are fed up with), but the truth is that they fail more. You can only read about other spheres of life online. Personally, i prefer reading economist.com than vanguardngr.com.

I cant actually believe that the footer of Nigeria's official website, specifically "ICT" and the others are actual links to some ads like espresso and wristwatches, Apalling.

30mill for a project that probably wont cost me more than 200k to set up which i believe aint more than 4 years. 30million? I go sell am and even sell the people wen they work for the site. Lol

some people dont know the difference between a parked domain and a website. I will buy that domain for 2k.

The last job i did, even though its just the graphics i handled, i charged 40k and regreted cos i ended up working my ass out. Now, 7k for a whole job is highly ridiculous.

Errm, as per the graphics layout, i wanna know how many people are actually involved, ie how many graphics guys do we have on board that are actually game. Just wanna know my competitors for the winning graphics. My layout will be submitted by tuesday, its currently 75 percent ready.

This is one of the best mobile apps i have seen from a developer on NL. Nice work bro. Meanwhile, the question i have is that; will every file uploaded by a registered member become accesible for download for the general public? Or there will be a bit of privacy?