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Blog Worm, have you been infected yet?

Most of us have done it in one way or another. Let our emotions get better of us in our e-mail. Perhaps emails should come with a disclaimer at the bottom? Caution: “May Inflict Injury or even “Sender might be loaded”. That’s because, even after years in which e-mail has been a common communications medium, many people still don’t seem to know how to use it.

Imagine getting an email of one page length from a customer in capitals? Or even the curt, insensitive and often downright rude e-mail messages that pop into my mailbox often regularly. I am far from being the sensitive type, but then again, the rate at which the emails come in, regularly, calls for questioning.

Well here are some suggestions on how to keep it less annoying.

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Payment processors play an important role in the world of E-commerce. It is either you are using it to pay for a product or service or to get paid for offering a product or service. Whichever position you find yourself, you are left to do the worrying, on whether the payment processor you are using is worth using or not. Security, Reliability, and Support are primary concerns in decision making.

The method normally been chosen by the online public, depends also on certain factors, which is normally brought about by the restrictions set by the processor or payment gateway. This restriction is generally determined by the laid down regulations sometimes call terms, that governs the existence of the processor.

I have been opportune to use a lot of payment processors either at the receiving end or from the sending end, be it for pleasure or for business. So, I would say I have the prerequisite to give feedbacks to the services been offered by the processors I have had the opportunity to use.

The payment processors I have been opportune to use are Paypal, Emocorp, Stormpay, 2checkout, E-gold and Moneybookers.

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Nigeria is a third world country and surprisingly e-commerce is emerging at a very astonishing rate. The main key players in Nigeria are quiet innovative and patient. Although there are quite a lot of already abandon web projects along the years. Nevertheless we shouldnt forget that it is like that everywhere.

The Nigerian web market is very promising although it has not been infected with the normal “leap-frogging” factor which is a very common fate with technologies in her market.

The key players in the Nigerian web market are:-

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Spending too much money making calls via your mobile phone? MobileVOIp is just what you need.

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In what I would call an unbelievable shocking news, the greatest USA tops the latest spam-spewing list.

Sophos has published its latest report on the top 12 spam-spewing countries for Q4 2005. USA still tops the charts; but for the first time, the country accounts for less than one quarter of all spam relayed.

Dubbed the “dirty dozen”, Sophos’ list of 12 countries in the period from Oct to Dec 2005 has

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I have 5 windows Live messenger beta invitiations to give out, so if you are interested just comment so, and I would be glad to send you an invitation.

What it is?
Windows Live Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.

What you will be able to do with it?

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How safe is your online information? Not nearly enough, due largely to the secrecy of personal passwords being easily compromised by hackers and “shoulder surfers.”

But how about a solution that allows you to use images instead of words or even numbers or the combination of the two? This next wave of computer password security could possibly result in greatly enhanced security for online retailers and sensitive information stored on computer hard drives.

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A lot of people are looking for alternatives to kazaa, infact something better, and I would just say use torrent. The torrent p2p technology infact is the successor of kazaa. It is for the techies, one of my friend’s lamented. But that is not true, it is quite easy once you get used to it. So how do you download something using the torrent technology.

Its very easy. The process involves 4 main steps which is :-

1. Downloading and installing the software.
2. Using a torrent search engine to search for a torrent file of your needs.
3. Downloading the torrent file which takes an average of 1 minute, depending on your connection.
4. Clicking on the downloaded torrent file to run on the main software.

It is very easy as I said, and here is the elaborated process plus url sources.

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E-commerce to a layman, is simply a webfront, where daily transactions are being made by 2 or more parties, generally assumed to be an online store where commodity is sold by the majority, but in reality, it does go far beyound that. A good explanation can be found at wikipedia.

Nigeria is well known for its phenomenal leap frogging, in anything you introduce into its market. E-commerce in Nigeria for one, hasnt really been well adopted, although we might see a lot of mini enterprises and a few corporations striving hard to see it come out in shape. Thus, the leap frogging factor hasnt infected the E-commerce industry. So what might be the possible problem?

Ignoring my own perception and understanding of the system, I did a quick research on google, on what Nigerians in Nigeria, in particular have to say to it.

The inputs I got by browsing through a topic titled “Doing E-Commerce from Nigeria (the 419 Stigma)” on Nairaland, a Nigerian forum, wasnt really impressive, Although I shouldnt ignore to commend a few of those who, tried to explain a few local terms, although it might be unnecessary and useless, because it still doesnt show they really do understand the problem at stake. Most generally, either they lack the experience, or I should be pardoned to say, they lack the basic understanding, on how an e-commerce system should generally work, and even whether the 419 stigma does have a direct impact on the local penetration of e-commerce in Nigeria. I really dont blame them, nobody is really working hard on educating them, besides we are all trying to learn more daily. Aren’t we?

So I decided to research more, and came up with a very interesting and well elaborated entry on Nigerian Village square by Dr. Gbenga Bamodu (Dept of International Trade and E-Commerce Law,University of Essex (UK), although located in the UK, in his post entry titled ” The Legal Landscape for E-Commerce in Nigeria“. I think that post actually went beyound what I would have achieved in trying to explain, besides touching every aspect of it objectively with a little bit of techinical flavour.

As much as I would have love, to quote that article, at the same time I would prefer readers to go and give it a through read at the main source. So I encourage that anybody interested in knowing the problem with e-commerce in Nigeria, the current obstacle to it, should head there by clicking the link.

The Legal Landscape for E-Commerce in Nigeria”

In part 2 of this post, which I would try to compose and post as soon as possible. I would give my own perception of the present status, the present and the possible future, besides that, I would try, to go through the pre-requisites of attaining that possible future etc. So stay tuned.