Technology never stops, and Instagram keeps pace with it in dizzying and maddening turns. Every time I think I've got the platform figured out, a new feature or algorithm update falls and serves me a curveball.
Over the span of a few years, I've seen trends rise and fall, but AI and automation? That's not disappearing anytime soon. Latest technology trends like artificial intelligence, automation, and augmented reality are transforming Instagram at a speed that’s hard to ignore.
AI-Generating Content: Double-Edged
Not so long ago, content creation took skill, patience, and a dash of luck. Today, AI tools are inserting themselves, streamlining, and amplifying at the same time. I've experimented with a few AI-generated caption tools myself, and, while decent, lack that...
Your free time is more valuable than you think. Even a few spare minutes can contribute to your financial goals when used strategically. While many turn to online surveys for extra income, there's a wide range of opportunities beyond answering questions.
Passive income streams and task-based platforms provide diverse ways to earn, catering to different interests, skills, and schedules. These options let you turn downtime into productive moments, whether you're running errands, relaxing at home, or looking for quick online tasks. With the right tools, you can transform free time into meaningful income without overhauling your routine.
Platforms to Earn Extra Income
There's no denying that online surveys are a popular way to earn. But who said they were the only option?...
The new Facebook Timeline makes managing your profile a lot easy. It offers you a larger area to work with and enables you highlight and hide your posts. So, with Facebook Timeline, you can show-off some posts and hide others. In case, you have not figured out how to highlight and hide posts on your Timeline yet, I will show you how in this post.
Add or Remove Post Highlight on Timeline
Highlighting a post on your Facebook Timeline will expand its width. Instead of occupying one column on your timeline, a highlighted post will expand to occupy your full...
One of the first tasks you may want to perform after getting Facebook Timeline is to remove or hide all previous posts that you do not want others to see. Like I stated in the introductory post in this Facebook Timeline series, timeline makes it a lot easy for people to find older posts on your profile.
So the only way to ensure no one finds those embarrassing updates, photos, or videos is to hide or delete them before publishing your Facebook timeline. Note that your timeline will publish automatically 7 days after your first preview. So, make sure you...
In my earlier post on how to add a Facebook cover photo to your Facebook Timeline, I told you that making a normal photo fit as a cover photo on Facebook Timeline is very hard. If you have attempted adding your own cover photo, you must have faced similar challenges. So, we will see some of your options for making a good cover photo for your timeline.
Upload a photo and drag
Facebook enable you drag a photo into position before saving it as a cover photo. This ensures that all the part of the photo you want seen are visible...
The new Facebook Timeline enables you add a large photo to your timeline called to cover photo. Your cover photo is displayed on top of your Facebook Timeline with your profile photo hanging on the bottom left of the cover photo. Your cover photo will be the first eye catcher for viewers of your Facebook Timeline, so it is a good idea to add one.
How to add a Cover Photo
Your cover photo is likely to be the first item you will like to add to your Facebook Timeline. It will make your Timeline more interesting. Your cover photo should...
Do you want to make money on the internet sharing your knowledge and insight? Do you want to develop an online voice that will bring you recognition and fame? Are you ready to learn how? My new e-book Blogging for Students will teach you how to blog, build your reputation and traffic, and how to make money from your reputation and traffic.
This e-book is no-longer available for sale. So, there is no point reading from here on. However, if you are still interested in blogging our article on how to start a blog can be very helpful.
Climbing the mounting...
Facebook is currently rolling out Timeline, the replacement for the Facebook wall. The Facebook Timeline makes it easy for you and your friends to see your life story or at least the ones you make available online. With Facebook Timeline you can go back as far as the very first post you made on Facebook and you can add more to build a comprehensive life story of yourself.
Facebook Timeline vs Wall
The jury is out early on the new Timeline feature with most respondents to our poll on which they prefer Facebook Timeline or Wall favouring the Facebook wall. However...
Online classified Ads are important advertising solutions for micro, small, and medium scale businesses. This is because they are a free advertising solution for businesses with a huge user base of people looking for cheap local deals online. We have written a series of interesting articles on free online classified ads. This page is an anchor page for all the classified Ads resources.
Classified Ads Series
Post and Find Classified Ads on Mobile phone via SMS
3 Ways to Search Classified Ads Sites
9 tips for Posting great Classified Ads Online
How to Post Free Classified Ads
Post Free Classified...
Google Trader is a classified site offered by Google in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Google Trader, like other classified Ads sites, enables users to buy or sell products and services online. However, the uniqueness of Google Traders is that users can find and post classified Ads using SMS on their mobile phone. Currently Google Trader SMS service is available on MTN and Airtel in Nigeria.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
How to post Ads with SMS
To post classified Ads on Google Trader via SMS, you must register for Google Trader on your mobile phone. To...
Are you looking for cheap local deals for a product or service? Classified Ads are a good option. You can simply search for local deals online at classified ads sites. However, because online classifieds are free they attract lots of ads, making it hard for you to find what you are looking for. In this post, I will show you 3 ways of finding the product or service you are looking for.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
1. Use the Category Links
Classified Ads are all about classification. This means that each classified Ad is added to...
Classified Ads are cheap advertising solutions for promoting a product or service. They are very attractive to small businesses and with free classified ads posting now available online, even individuals are now selling directly through classified Ads. This leads to thousands of Ads daily all competing against each other, meaning that each advertiser needs to do more to get noticed. Here are 9 tips to help you post classified Ads that will get noticed by web user as well as bring search engine visitors to your Ad.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
1. Write an Inviting...
Classified Ads sites enable individuals and businesses to post free ads online. They offer a cheap advertising solution for micro, small, and medium scale businesses, enabling them promote their businesses online with their slim budgets. However, to get good result, you need to know how to post a classified Ad on online Classifieds.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
Classified Ads sites make it easy for buyers to find sellers. Sellers get a cost effective advertising solution, while buyers get easy access to cheap local deals.
Guidelines for Posting Classifieds
When advertising on Classified Ads sites you need to...
Classifieds are adverts that are displayed in categories (i.e are classified into groups). The groups may have headings such as Jobs, For Sale, For Rent, Automobile, Services, etc. Each Ad in classifieds is placed under a heading that best describes the product or service that is being advertised. Classified Ads used to be printed only in newspapers and magazines, but with the advent of the internet, free classified Ads sites are now available online.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
One of the major attractions of classified Ads is that they offer cheap advertising to micro, small...
Lagos List is an information portal offering a free online business directory and classified Ads listings. Lagos List also offers information about businesses and services in Lagos. Its focus is to help businesses and organisations in Lagos promote their products and services on the internet.
Any business or organisation in Lagos can list their business and services free on the online business directory. Individuals and businesses can also post classified Ads free on the Lagos List Classifieds. There is also a forum for interaction.
Lagos List Free Business Directory
The Lagos List Business Directory allows anyone to list contact and business information...
Blogging is a very popular topic these days because it makes it easy for ordinary people to share their thoughts online. Here, I will guide you on how to start a blog and make money from it.
Blogging is also a great way to build a business. In fact, a couple of businesses started as a blog first. Some experts even recommend that you start a blog first, use it to build your reputation, and then launch your business.
Now, let's learn all about how to start a blog.
Why Start a Blog
A blog is a great marketing tool for businesses, but...
Before boarding a flight, you have to check-in, after which you are given a boarding pass to enable you board the flight. Traditionally, check-in was done at the airport at the check-in counter of the airline. But with the advancement in technology, most notably ICT, airlines now have online check-in feature as part of their online airline booking platforms. Online check-in makes things easy for travelers and saves cost for airlines.
Want to Book Cheap Flights Online? Click Here
All the six Nigerian airlines we currently track; namely Air Peace, Aero airlines, Dana air, FirstNation airways, Arik air, and Air Nigeria...
For SEO, keywords are queries that web users type into the search bar when they want to find something online. So, when building or maintaining a site serious thought and effort should be put into keyword building and discovery. Hence Keyword research should be one of the first considerations when building or redesigning a website. This will ensure your website gets targeted traffic and attracts high quality visitors.
Keyword research will enable you discover queries that web users use when searching for your kind of product or service. By writing content on your website using those keywords, search engines will...
Twinpine is a Nigerian owned mobile advertising network that helps advertisers reach mobile audiences by enabling them display targeted ads on quality mobile sites and mobile apps. The publishers on whose websites and apps these ads are displayed earn a fraction of the advertising cost.
Twinpine currently serves advertising on top Nigerian mobile publishers in the categories of news, sports, business, entertainment, sport and social networking. Twinpine has delivered value to brands such as MTN, Pepsi, Autodesk, Jobberman and leading advertising agencies helping them achieve their marketing goals with impressive results to show for it.
The immense value derived by businesses...
BlackBerry Complete is a stripped down BIS plan. It comes at a cheaper price, but with some tradeoffs. BlackBerry Complete is available in Nigeria on Glo, MTN, Etisalat, and Airtel. It is one of the cheap BlackBerry Plans in Nigeria aimed at making the cost of using a BlackBerry Phone cheaper. BlackBerry Complete is an entry level service targeted at ordinary users and student. Users with more demand are better-off staying with the full BIS service.
Where to Buy BlackBerry Phones
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Although BlackBerry Complete comes with some tradeoff, most users in the target segment will hardly notice...
All this while Google+ has been open to only people 18 years and above. But on January 26, 2012 Google+ amended its rules to allow people 13 years and above to join the social networking site. So for the first time all teens can join Google+ officially. To ensure that teens are protected online Google+ offers enhanced privacy features for teens.
That Google+ is opening its doors to all teens does not mean teens have not been using the social networking site. After all they can raise their age to join. However, Google by these changes to its rules is...
Are you planning to redesign your website? Have you spared some thought for Search Engine Optimisation, SEO. Website redesigns often result in changes in structure, content, and layout of your website. These changes can negatively impact on your search traffic, which is bad for business. Hence an SEO service should not be an afterthought during website redesigns but should even precede it.
SEO should precede the process of website redesign, but some website owners wait until after the redesign or if something goes wrong to bring in SEO services. Once the idea to redesign a website pops up, an SEO...
You need the best marketing automation software to scale your business fast and convert more leads to customers.
Marketing automation software are software tools that...
Nigerian Nollywood movies quality has grown from the typical traditional English, Yoruba, and Igbo movies you knew in the 90’s to top-class and quality...
Congratulations! Your Monthly 1.5GB data plan has been successfully renewed.
Is this the kind of message you are getting? Auto-renewal is convenient, but can be...
