Nigeria is ranked 1st among African Internet countries, according to recent surveys of Internet usage in Africa by Internet World Stats. Ironically, most of the Internet-based companies and web startups as well as Web 2.0 technologies and applications have not originated from Nigeria.

Instead, South Africa (Ranked 4th) is currently the leading country in Africa for Web 2.0 technologies such as social bookmarking (Muti.co.za), social media aggregators (Afrigator.com); blogging platforms (iBlog.co.za, Amagama.com, etc); social media sites (Zoopy.com) amongst others.

This raises two questions:

• Why are Nigerian Web developers not building interesting Web applications?
• Can Nigeria compete with South Africa’s Web 2.0 technologies?

No doubt, we’ve seen good websites such as Sturvs.com, the first social bookmarking site in Nigeria and likely more of sites like this are coming in a few months or years.

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