Archive for October, 2007

Microsoft Pays 240 Million USD for Stake in Facebook

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

O.k. for you folks who don't know, Microsoft now owns equity stake in Facebook; the social networking giant. The purchase which was made official last week Wednesday (24th) had Microsoft paying $240 million for roughly 1.6 percent stake of Facebook; imagine, just 1.6 percent...and as at the time of this ...

Introducing blogger - Tim Akinbo

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Hi there! I'm Tim Akinbo and I'm a contributor at 60minuteswiththegeeks.com and also a facilitator at the 60minuteswiththegeeks seminars. I'm a web applications major with special interest in web 2.0; other areas of particular interest include mobile Internet and open source applications packaging and support.Being my first post on this ...

InvestorDelight: Proudly Nigerian

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Nifty application if you ask me and quite useful also. InvestorDelight is 100percent indigenous, built by Nigerian developers and a service to be proud of. For those of you who are not already making use of this application, I’ll say you are missing .if you have shares on the Nigerian stock ...

GreatIfe went on hibernation…

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Unexpectedly school was shut down on the 11th of this month; we just got back to school this Sunday, 21st that is. Because of that, our Gig, previously slated for the 2oth couldn't hold. :( We shall be having our next meeting on November 3 then... Stay tuned.

Pharmacist and the Treasurer…

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

We had a nice time on the 6th. Although timba was out of town and couldn’t make it, dipo odumosu stood in nicely with a talk on 3d ART. O.k the answer to the brain teaser right? Well for those of you that weren’t around, I posed a brain teaser at the ...

Pictures From Last Gig

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Here are some of the pictures we took on the 6th October:   View All Pictures

Upcoming Event: 1st Exclusive Gig

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Come tomorrow, the 6th of October, we shall be having the first exclusive edition of 60minuteswiththegeeks at SpringHills new Buka O.A.U. ile-ife. The event will be graced by Tim akimbo who will be giving a talk on optimizing web applications. Tim Akinbo is the CEO of Timber objects; a company that ...

Aptana For Your Web Development

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Now I have to say this is a marvelous product. Apatana is cool. Heard about it from iPod and guess I’m making that switch over from Dreamweaver I have always wanted to. Aptana is going to be my default and favorite IDE soon…very soon. So what is Aptana? Aptana is an Open Source ...

Tolu Olugboji on 60minuteswiththegeeks.

Friday, October 5th, 2007

“Technology in Incubation: You've Got to Love Creating” that was the title of the talk given by tolu olugboji at the debut presentation of 60minuteswiththegeeks which took place on the 22nd September 2007. The talk centered on Technology as a tool for creativity and not an arcane subject reserved for ...