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Widgetise your profile!

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 [...]

Gistcaster summit: Event Details, Photos and more

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 [...]

The Gistcaster Summit

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 [...]

A New Approach to ‘Gisting’

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 [...]

  

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