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The Grid Launches In Nigeria. A Bit Scaled Back But Still Fine

Posted by Munashe Gumbonzvanda | Posted in Nigeria, South Africa | Posted on 02-11-2009

Tags: Africa, Nigeria, startups technology, the grid, web 2.0

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The Grid

The Grid

The Grid, the mobile social network from South Africa is the first company  I personally know of, to attempt to enter the Nigerian web market.

The Grid version launched in Nigeria, has a few features missing from it.  Like the location based information

. However The Grid made up for this lapse by rolling out a few more features for fans of the service. The changes include stuff like twitter integration, change to their interface.

Quoting Vincent Mahers blog

“One of the most important interpretations of our API was that we decided to make chat conversations persistent across multiple sessions.

This means that users can log in, see offline messages in a thread and reply without the other user being online. In this sense it works similar to normal asynchronous messaging like Facebook but can be done between the IM environment on the Java application and the mobi site as if it was a normal IM session.

This greatly increases the usability of the IM and makes conversations longer lasting and less dependent on your friends being online.

The content creation process has also been streamlined so that users no longer have to choose the type of content they want to create as an additional step before they get to upload files.”

You can read more from Vincent Mahers blog

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