The Gistcaster Blog

We have just launched a new, important and integral section of Gistcaster, something we call: Gist Tracker.

Gist Tracker keeps track of your gists and gists you comment upon, giving you the power to monitor conversations in Real-Time. You will now be able to get a concise stream of all conversations you are participating in.

You can also describe Gist Tracker as our on-site notification system, but only notifies about Gists and Clips, other notifications are still sent by old means of e-mail or site inbox, enjoy!

Check it out, click here (requires login)

Gistcaster Team

Starting today, Gistcaster will now allow you to tag your gists by adding a #hashtag.

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context your gists. They’re like tags on our Clips section or even Flickr, only that its added inline to your post.

You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. To make this hash tag “live”, all You need to do is write a gist and add #whatever to it. It can be anywhere in the gist, not just at the end.

Happy Gisting!

Hello friends! We would like to introduce our brand new custom URL shortener at gstme.com

The main goals of this service are:
Reliablity
To ensure you dont have to “blindly” click on a shortened link, all gstme.com URLs points to pages on gistcaster.com, hence you have a clue as to where the URL leads.
Speed
To ensure fast resolution of Short URLs – No one likes to be kept waiting…
We’re keeping gstme.com inhouse, yeah its NEVER going public, if you need to shorten a non-gistcaster.com address, try yrn.me its a good URL shortener created by a Nigerian company.

Some posts deserve their five minutes of fame. Others don’t. You be the judge with our new rating feature!

You can now rate any gist or clip by liking it, We realise that “Like” is a way to give positive feedback or connect with things you care about on Gistcaster. The more likes a gist gets, the more useful our community found it to be and hence such posts will be featured on our new homepage (Oops.. I’ve let the cat out…), go ahead and try it out, if any errors pop up please alert us!

Gistcaster Crew!

We’ve been busy fixing bugs around the site, but today we’ve churned out something new: Profile Badges! What this means is that you can now easily embed your Gistcaster profile to any website or your blog’s sidebar. See our own badge below:

To do yours use this piece of code:

<script src=”http://www.gistcaster.com/pg/profile/gistcaster?view=widget” type=”text/javascript”></script>

of course changing “gistcaster” to your own username e.g demola

That’s it folks!

On 26th march 2010, at the Big Lecture Theatre, Obanla campus, Federal University of Technology in Akure, Ondo state. Young people gathered to witness the public presentation of Gistcaster, The technology campaign also showcased the positive potentials of the internet, and how students could use it to make their everyday life easier.

The event was a success as people turned out in their numbers to witness it for themselves. The Keynote addresses were delivered by Taiwo Orogbanga, Olusola Amusan and Ademola Morebise(CEO Gistcaster)

Keynote Address 1

Taiwo Orogbanga presenting the Keynote Address 1

Taiwo Orogbanga spoke about “Online tools for students and how to download stuffs online” introducing web 3.0 search engines like kngine.com and wolframalpha.com. He then showed them how to use torrents for downloading stuffs.

Keynote Address 2

Olusola Amusan speaking on "Blacks: Tech and change"

Olusola Amusan spoke on “Blacks: Tech and Change”, he argued that Blacks could change the world through use of technology.
Keynote Address 3

Ademola Morebise (CEO Gistcaster) presents Gistcaster

Ademola Morebise finally stepped out to present Gistcaster after a brief biography was read out by a friend Osobukola Doyinsolami. Ademola started by  clearing all doubts through a slide he dubbed “Four Questions about Gistcaster” and went forward to do a live demo helped by Damilare Akinlaja

Damilare Akinlaja and Ademola Morebise performing a live demo of Gistcaster

The event finished with a photo session with guests and attendees.

Registrations at the event

Special guests at the Gistcaster summit

Ademola Morebise with members of SIFE FUTA team

EvKing (Out-going FUTASU PRO) asking some questions about Gistcaster

Gistcaster summit flyer

Gistcaster, an initiative to rebrand Nigeria, change the way Nigerians find information online as well as drive local e-content generation is organizing a one day campaign at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State.
The technology campaign tagged “Gistcaster summit” will showcase the positive potentials of the internet, and how students can use it to make their everyday life easier.
Gistcaster will then be presented to FUTA students formally. Gistcaster is a website that allows people to keep in touch with friends and discover what is happening around them. It has already attracted lots of students in higher institutions.
The seminar will attract nearly a thousand FUTA students who would like to have their internet-related problems solved and learn something new.The summit is billed to hold on 26th of march 2010.

Check out the Facebook event page

After nearly six (months) of Gistcaster, we evaluated all the e-mails, feedbacks, comments and complains about Gistcaster, and they all pointed to different weaknesses of the Project.

For Instance, some people wanted commenting, for others 140 characters limit per gist was too small, and so on. Which led to even bigger questions: is Gistcaster the latest Nigerian “Twitter-look-alike” on the web?

All this pointed clearly to One thing; it was time to take a new approach to ‘gisting’ (Gisting isnt english – we know, pls pardon us.)

So, back to the drawing board we went and now we’re back with a total re-structuring of Gistcaster!

What is new? Well, Everything! more characters, Full commenting system, Gists by location, Access level per gist and lots more.

Head over to www.gistcaster.com right now!