I came across this online…dont know if it’s true.http://www.ventures-africa.com/archives/58609
Worth one billion naira off stealing other people’s content and intellectual property. Nigeria really is a haven for criminals to be celebrated.
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He’s rich enough to do an overhaul of his site 10 times (over and over again) at Anakle.
If he’s interested.
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I believe he’d not be hesitant to do an overhaul on his website if he can be convinced beyond doubt of the values of a design overhaul, and not just because sites nowadays look better than that.
For me, the site does it’s job.
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As long as the site does its job; I doubt if Seun will be doing any new design, anytime soon. The dude is just permanently sic! I love almost everything about his biz lifestyle.
Btw, I hope one day, techcabal will interview him.
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I’d be really interested in an interview with him as well.
Worth 1billion and won’t hire anyone skilled, won’t buy a domain name and won’t make any effort to innovate. Typical Nigerian anyhowness. But she’s rich, so who cares, right?
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Like the worst part during that whole scandal was her arrogance over stealing other people’s content and she STILL continued to steal and she kept trying to paint herself as the victim not the hardworking writers and bloggers and photographers whose work she stole and profited off.
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It’s the Nigerian way: Get defensive and blame the ‘haters’ first, think about it never.
The whole thing was so disappointing. At this point, if the article above is true, she has the financial resources to rival actual local news agencies and she makes no obvious effort to put the money back into her venture. No clear plan for the future, and thanks to the fact that the site exists on a service that could disappear tomorrow (and has disappeared once), no clear plan to extend her legacy. There’s no reason why she couldn’t have pulled a Nikki Finke and turned her blog into a real thing. Even Bella Naija makes way more of an effort.
I hate the notion of, ‘eh if it works…’. You build something that does well, your goal should always be finding out how to make it better. Plan for the future, do not rest on your oars. It’s this thinking that’s wasting Nigeria away. We find oil, well, that’s that then, no need to do anything else, but wait for the oil money to roll in. How’s that working out for us right now?
Meh.
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Eh…I think that’s why ‘we’ care in the first place.
On the level of securing her technical assets, I’d agree. But she’s being quite persistent, even ‘visionary’ on how she has rode this gossip space of ours. She locks down her gossips and the personal touch on her blog is everly sisterly.
Bottomline she has innovated in her core business at a ‘necessary’ pace. Wouldn’t expect more from a model turned fulltime blogger, can’t say the same for Seun of Nairaland. (Imagine if nairaland adopted this radar discussion board, one of the best experiences on mobile, this radar platform)
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Respect to Seun, no offence meant but Nairaland is living below its potentials. 1.3M users in well over 10 years of existence? Its a NO for me. If google shuts down blogspot today what happens to Linda?
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I was talking about people not caring about how she gets her content, not about people caring about her at all.
The fact that you think her copying and pasting other people’s content and adding a personal line or two is ‘visionary’ or ‘innovative’ is alarming. Let’s get higher standards.
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Contextual blindside!
I wouldn’t even say; ‘you know that wasn’t my point’.
Copy and pasting, yea she has done that too! Amongst many other ‘ills’, but saying that is all about how she got here, is prejudicing. Simple.
(IMO nairaland takes the crown for C&P content, syndication by several users, but via subsequent contributions most posts naturally take on a different life, ‘same’ as LIB reactionary comment section)
Somehow people wait for LIB to second most news to confirm authenticity.
I remember the case of the late Goldie, until people saw it on LIB did it register natural shock.
Somehow(using this twice now) she has captured the essence of gossip in this space.
I just think she needs a trusted manager who has her express interest at heart to secure her brand assets technically. I wonder what her younger siblings are doing. SMH!
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There is nothing visionary about stealing other people’s work. Unless being a thief is now the definition of “visionary”. Wow.
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C’mon sisterly, that isn’t all she has done with LIB.
As I mentioned in my reply to @onyeka, she gets her gossip. Yes, there have been cases of duplicity but that’s isn’t all of the LIB story.
Visionary; She has invested ‘capital’ into her sources. She may not be the first to hear a ‘rumor’ but she’s more likely the first to confirm it’s verity before other gossip mongers.
When most folks saw blogging as an excuse to sample a blogspot subdomain, she built a business. It really is as simple as that.
Credit to first mover’s advantage and what not but she did something really Right.
I haven’t been to that site in months but it doesn’t change the truth.
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Cases of duplicity? Well over 80% of Linda Ikeji’s content is stolen word for word, picture for picture. This is laughable.
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Saying that’s not how she did, is denial.
Nairaland is a FORUM. You’re discussing things that mostly already exist. By virtue of the fact that 90 percent of any forum is people discussing a topic, it is not guilty of copy and paste as much as an Entertainment Blog, which makes millions off content it barely even modifies or creates or credits.
They need to get better news sources. You, the audience, are the ones validating her poor practices. More often than not, unless it’s an exclusive, that news exists somewhere else, on a less eye-melting site.
She may not be the first to hear a ‘rumor’ but she’s more likely the first to confirm it’s verity before other gossip mongers.
I don’t read her site, but even I know she’s gotten heat multiple times for publishing things that aren’t verified.
Does she pay you people, why do so few people want her to maintain this weird status quo? I’m not complaining because I hate her. I don’t think about her outside these posts. I just wish she did more with her site, like I wish Seun would. But they don’t care, you the audience don’t care, so honestly, at this point, it’s better for me to stop caring too.
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So, by virtue of the content platform. Duplicity is permissible? Point taken!
If not for the limitations of design (forum vs blog plat.) She equally engages her audience.
Functional word in my post was “Somehow”(used twice), somehow people wait for LIB to second most news for authenticity
Somehow(forgive me again), she has managed to sell herself as that better news source to a whole bunch of folks.
Why most folks bought that sell is topic for another day.
You used that twice, referencing me (sorry, 3 times). I missed at what point this turned personal
Linda Ikeji and a host of other businesses/people have reinforced a sad fact in our world: it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
I might be going off topic but I’ll assume since there’s no empirical evidence of their financial worth, this is what the op will get: their worth based on ethics or technology.
I’ll say they are both below what they could be. Linda has risen, true, she should (like Google) taken on the don’t be evil mantra and she’d have shaped copyright in Nigeria. Seun also would have led with a kind of identity for Nigerians for authentication, maybe a PayPal too. It might have been the store where Nigerian youths test their apps.
Now, we’re stuck with two platforms which aren’t listening to what the audience is saying (and sadly, we haven’t voted them out, maybe we can’t).
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I think the bigger question is how come no one has really tried to rival her. I am not even saying a blog that pretty much copies her format, but someone who considers some of the things her audience would want and improve on the service.
At the end of the day I do not think gossip is exclusive to anyone, I think with the right mixture of work someone can beat her at her own game.
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