According to Justin Dewhirst, Area Executive Producer, CEE & MEA, Apps Media & Publishing Microsoft, “MSN
is about bringing contents together in one portal and Kagiso has built
the expertise for great experiences on the Windows operating system”.
He added “MSN is accessible on personal computers (PC), smartphones and feature phones. He reiterated that MSN Nigeria is a way to synchronize great people with great technology in the process of building a greater content experience.
The
deal with Kagsio also sees Ad Dynamo providing contextual advertising
on Microsoft’s network of sites, including Windows Live Hotmail with
over 800,000 users in Nigeria and Windows
Messenger with over 820,000 active users in Nigeria.”
During
the demonstration of the portal, Dele Akinsade, Director Developer
Platform Evangelist, West East and Central Africa Microsoft said that already, MSN Nigeria syndicates local news in Nigeria from the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN), as well as publishers such as BangShowbiz. “It also features
dedicated pages for news (national, African and world news), sport
(local and world sport news), entertainment (local and global celebrity
entertainment news) and lifestyle (including fashion, travel, tech &
gadgets, motoring).”
Also
speaking, Marcus Stephens, General Manager- Publishing, Kagiso Media
said Kagiso Media has been partnering with Microsoft since 2010 to share
the vision for building communities with local talent content
providers. “There is a growing hunger for localised content across
Africa as undersea cables, mobile broadband and falling Internet access
costs bring more people online. We aim to address this need with the
same formula of locally relevant, easy to digest content that we offer
our audience in South Africa,” he said.
At the interactive editorial roundtable, Microsoft and Kagiso Media rubbed minds with some of Nigeria’s finest bloggers sharing ideas on trends in blogging in Nigeria, local content, content consumption, messaging amongst others.
The
bloggers lauded the initiative and expressed their desire for content
in Pidgin English which according to them is a unifying language spoken
by all. They also called for the incorporation of local
expressions and other trends into the writing styles to spice up the
portal with the Nigerian flavour.
The MSN Portal team appreciated contributions of the bloggers and also solicited their partnership in making the portal truly Nigerian.
8 comments:
Whots keeping from producing phone. i know they'll be better than tecno.
Torry too long!
olori nla linda!..jst felt lyk abusin u*lol*no mind me jare,am one of ya many fans.jst wana say "u'v gt a kinda grace at wrk in ur lyf".mwah*
Bia aunty linda......no vex bt pls change dis ur background.e no gud @ all d oda 1 even beta pass.
why do u hate tecno?
Google will always be ahead of Microsoft
Wait o linda!! Dis ur new background is sm how ooo! Nd offf!! Whenever I see your former background in any phone or pc or wareva I wuld no is linda's blog cos is just 2 unique!!! Pls I begg u in Gods name pls remove dis background!
“Bia aunty linda......no vex bt pls change dis ur background.e no gud @ all d oda 1 even beta pass.”
Change am for am na
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