Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Linda Ikeji to Launch a social network - CNN

New social network by Nigerian blogger Linda Ikeji to pay top users

Updated 1309 GMT (2109 HKT) November 7, 2016

Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

Ikeji hopes the new venture will be the next Facebook. Unlike other networks she plans to give cash incentives. Those with more than 50,000 followers can earn revenue from the advertisements placed on their profiles.

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Ikeji has grown a large following since she started blogging 10 years ago. Today she has 1.32 million Twitter followers and 796,000 following on Instagram.

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Besides chatting with friends and getting the latest news, users can upload original news stories. If accepted, the network will pay out N8,000 (around $25) to writers.

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Ikeji's own blog, which she started in 2007, has around 7 million page views per day and is especially popular with Nigerians living abroad.

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Nigerian millionaire blogger Linda Ikeji has launched her own social networking platform -- Linda Ikeji Social (LIS).

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A former model from Lagos, Nigeria, Ikeji says her social network, LIS (Linda Ikeji Social) has something others lack: a one-stop shop for everything online.

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LIS launched on November 1, and had 50,000 sign-ups within the first 24 hours.

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The social network has a news and gossip section, an online marketplace and a space where people can share their own news articles.

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Ikeji has grown a large following since she started blogging 10 years ago. Today she has 1.32 million Twitter followers and 796,000 following on Instagram.

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Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

Besides chatting with friends and getting the latest news, users can upload original news stories. If accepted, the network will pay out N8,000 (around $25) to writers.

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Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

Ikeji's own blog, which she started in 2007, has around 7 million page views per day and is especially popular with Nigerians living abroad.

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Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

Nigerian millionaire blogger Linda Ikeji has launched her own social networking platform -- Linda Ikeji Social (LIS).

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Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

A former model from Lagos, Nigeria, Ikeji says her social network, LIS (Linda Ikeji Social) has something others lack: a one-stop shop for everything online.

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Photos: Millionaire blogger launches social network

LIS launched on November 1, and had 50,000 sign-ups within the first 24 hours.

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The social network has a news and gossip section, an online marketplace and a space where people can share their own news articles.

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Story highlights

A new Nigerian social network hit 50,000 users 24 hours after launch
The platform plans to pay their most popular users
Popular blogger Linda Ikeji is behind the new venture

(CNN)Love her or not, she's one of Africa's most famous news and gossip writers. Now she's hoping to take on Facebook with her very own social network, which she says hit 50,000 sign-ups on the first day.

Linda Ikeji, a former model from Lagos, Nigeria, says her social network, LIS (Linda Ikeji Social) has something others lack: a one-stop shop for everything online.

"About 30-40 million Nigerians are now online, and they go through so many sites," Ikeji told CNN.

"They go to Facebook for connecting with friends. They come to my blog to read the news. They buy and sell things and go to places like Nairaland where they exchange opinions."

Just six days in, the network has 86,000 followers. Within the next five years, Ikeji said she hopes to be the new Facebook.

"Facebook is my competition," said the businesswoman, who is famous for her tabloid reporting, which many have criticized for promoting gossip and lacking in credibility.

In 2014 her blog came under scrutiny amidst allegations of plagiarism and unfair usage of images which led to the blogging platform Blogger, run by Google, temporarily taking her website offline.

#Bosschick! 😎😎

A photo posted by Linda Ikeji (@officiallindaikeji) on Oct 29, 2016 at 1:07pm PDT

Paying the popular

Apart from her controversial ways, she differs from Facebook in another major way, however. Her plan is to pay people who gain a lot of followers on the site.

"Once they have 50,000 followers on their page, we will automatically start monetizing it. That means we will put our client's banners on the page and pay you a commission from what they pay us."

Please follow me on lindaikejisocial.com 😚😚

A photo posted by Linda Ikeji (@officiallindaikeji) on Nov 1, 2016 at 6:11am PDT

The cash incentives are paid out to the so-called 'wallet' -- a section on the network where people add their bank account details.

It remains to be seen if anyone will hit that high. For now, she will pay out a weekly share of her advertising revenue to the most popular accounts, she says.

"Next week we are putting N20,000 ($63) each into 50 people's wallets," Ikeji said.

The network also plans to pay users N8,000 (around $25) for original news content.

The aim of the business is to give back to the online community.

The strategy could mean good money for users, and the social network who gets help with attracting people to sign-up. A win win, she explains.

"Being on social networking sites make the (site) owners billionaires. You being on our site will make us money, but at the same time we will share some of that money with you."

A million dollar business

Ikeji is everywhere in the online sphere, with 1.32 million Twitter followers and 796,000 following her Instagram account.

It all started 10 years ago, when she was modeling, and came across a blog post about herself. "I liked it and I wanted to start my own blog."

Back then, blogs were more personal accounts of people's lives, she said. "I wanted something more interesting. I wanted to do gossip and news, and I gave them something different."

Already a celebrity, it quickly drew a lot of readers.

"It was like a celebrity blog: people knew who I was and were very interested in what I had to say."

It seems to have worked. Today her blog has around 7 million page views per day and is especially popular with Nigerians living abroad in countries such as China, Dubai and the U.S., according to Ikeji.

"It's the number one blog in Nigeria," she says.

However popular and successful she claims to be, Ikeji continues to be controversial. Some say she is getting rich on gossip.

She says the criticism is mainly down to two things: Jealousy and the usual online critique famous people often endure.

"There are people who are jealous, because they don't understand how somebody can be so successful at something so many others are trying to do."

Others simply don't like what she does, but Ikeji seems unfazed.

"They may not agree with the way I do stuff. They will criticize and show their opinion, which is fine with me."

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     Meet the owner of the popular track "Going Higher" making wave in the state at the moment,Paultwin. we will be aking him some questions regarding the controversial song and his contact informatiom, and the controversy about his social media accounts will also be cleared in this interview.
    Hulk Admin : Paultwin,what can you tell us about yourself?
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    Hulk Admin : which other tracks have you done?
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    Hulk Admin : Paultwin. How did you come about that name?
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    Paultwin : well , my twitter handle is @paultwinokoye and my instagram handle is also @paultwinokoye , on Facebook it's Paultwin Okoye , it's pretty much Paultwin Okoye on all social media , I have to add the Okoye just to avoid any conflict of accounts and also to be easy to be found
    Hulk Admin : so you are Okoye too? just like the duos?
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    Hulk Admin : what inspired the song Going Higher?
    Paultwin : well , I would say, uhmm, seeing were I am today, I've come a long way and I am going higher day by day, I now get show contracts abroad
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    Hulk Admin : Thank you for your time Mr Paul , we are looking forward to speaking with you again , when you will be with universal studios.

Paultwin : thank you.

Friday, 4 November 2016

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10. Billy the Kid (1880) – $2.3 million

Photographer: Unkown
kid

One of the most popular and costliest pictures of all time is this iconic photo of a young and famous outlaw who resided in the American West. This is the only known photo of Billy the Kid, who had murdered about 20 men even before he had reached the age of 21. He became notorious during his short but very busy career as a gunslinger and an outlaw.
Many film aficionados may have attached the face of Hollywood actor Emilio Estevez to this legendary outlaw because of the former’s Young Guns films. However, the real outlaw will forever be immortalized by this photo taken by an anonymous photographer in 1880. The price for this photo? $2.3 million.

9. Untitled #153 (1985) – $2.7 million

Photographer: Cindy Sherman
sherman

A photograph that has been renowned by many as a masterpiece, Untitled 153 is a haunting portrait that could be mistaken for an image straight from a crime scene.

8. The Pond/Moonlight (1904) – $2.9 million

Photographer: Edward Steichen
pond

The Pond/Moonlight is a photograph taken by by Edward Steichen in the State of New York in 1904. This well-known and unique photo shows a forest sitting across from a pond, with the moon just barely visible through the trees.
The Pond is so popular by aficionados in the photography world, not just because it is among the first color photographs; it is also among the first color photos that were widely distributed. It is also very prominent for its uniqueness. Only three versions of this photo exist; no wonder why the value of each photo greatly increased. One of the three versions got sold for a whopping $2.9 million back in 2006. At that time, it was the most expensive photo, although other photos have been bought since then with much higher prices. It is still not known how costly the other versions will be, but it is most likely they will be sold at much higher prices (both photos are currently being held in a museum).

7. Los Angeles (1998) – $2.9 million

Photographer: Andreas Gursky

This is something that could have come out of a sci-fi film. The image taken by famed photographer Andreas Gursky, showing the grid-like outstanding lightning patters of Los Angeles, was bought for a mind-numbing price of 2.9 million dollars.

6. 99 Cent II, Diptychon (2001) – $3.3 million

Photographer: Andreas Gursky
99cent

Gursky has another of his photos on this list. In fact, two photos from this famous photographer are in the sixth spot. Both photos show a supermarket of various goods being sold, but the photographer heavily modified both works. Both works, which are very expensive, measured almost seven by 11 feet.
The first, which he called 99 Cent II, was the first photo to have been sold for more than three million dollars back in 2007.

5. Untitled (Cowboy)(1989) – $3.4 million

Photographer: Richard Prince
cowboy

An unknown cowboy was photographed in action, as he uses his rope to catch a horse. The photo, complete with an amazing backdrop of a clear bright sky and disheveled clouds, earned famous photographer Richard Prince a cool 3.4 million dollars.

4. Dead Troops Talk (1992) – $3.7 million

Photographer: Jeff Wall
troops

The photograph, named Dead Troops Talk and taken by photographer Jeff Wall back in 1992 is unique and much talked about as it has been staged. Wall had been also known for previous photo setups. For this picture, Wall chose to depict the grisly ambush of a Russian contingent during the 1988 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He set up a number of “dead soldiers” to make them appear as if they are talking, possibly to have statement echoing Wall’s view about the invasion of Afghanistan. Wall’s unique and creative ideas reflected in the photo were among the biggest reasons why this portrait got 3.7 million dollars at an auction.

3. For Her Majesty (1973) – $3.7 million

Photographer: Gilbert & George
majesty

Gilbert & George have made an outstanding photography career taking photos that discuss various topics in the world. They sold their priciest piece when their photo “For Her Majesty” got a staggering price of 3.7 million dollars at Sothesby’s back in June 2008.

2. Untitled #96 (1981) – $3.9 million

Photographer: Cindy Sherman
untitled96

Sherman’s self-portrait, portraying a very young 70s teenager that is looking mysteriously adrift, was purchased for a whopping 3.9 million dollars back in 2011, making it one of the most expensive photos in the world, second only to the number one in this list.

1. Rhein II (1999) – $4.3 million

Photographer: Andreas Gursky

Trumping the record set by photographer Cindy Sherman in 2011, Andreas Gursky cements his stellar status atop this very exclusive group of photographers with his amazing photograph of the Rhine River: the fourth photo he has taken on this list, purchased for 4.3 million dollars in 2011.
Rhein II is now considered the priciest photograph of all time. There were some issues regarding the photo, which measures 73 by 143 inches, because it was heavily modified. In the original photo, there were some people and a building, which Gursky decided to digitally remove so that his photo will have a more natural view of the river.

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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Linda Ikeji to Launch a social network - CNN

New social network by Nigerian blogger Linda Ikeji to pay top users

Story highlights

Paying the popular

A million dollar business

15 Best Social Networks In Voke Now (2016)

Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites |

MEET THE "Going Higher" CROONER ; PAULTWIN

MEET THE "Going Higher" CROONER ; PAULTWIN

Friday, 4 November 2016

See Photos Worth Millions of dollars , Costliest Photos In The World

SEE THE WORLDS 10 COSTLIEST PHOTOS, PHOTOS WORTH MILLIONS

10. Billy the Kid (1880) – $2.3 million

9. Untitled #153 (1985) – $2.7 million

8. The Pond/Moonlight (1904) – $2.9 million

7. Los Angeles (1998) – $2.9 million

6. 99 Cent II, Diptychon (2001) – $3.3 million

5. Untitled (Cowboy)(1989) – $3.4 million

4. Dead Troops Talk (1992) – $3.7 million

3. For Her Majesty (1973) – $3.7 million

2. Untitled #96 (1981) – $3.9 million

1. Rhein II (1999) – $4.3 million

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