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Ever wondered how the Swedish company Tonaton makes money? Typical of most classifieds they make or intend making money from premium promotions and advertisements. With extra paid options, posters who want to stand out and reach more interested buyers quickly and easily can have their ad At the top of every ad listing page, where they have up to 2 spots reserved for Top Ads. They currently provide two options for promotions via Airtel, Tigo Cash and Vouchers; 1. Top Ad   This promotion gives your ad a chance to be displayed as a Top Ad over the course of 7 days. 2.  Daily Bump .   This promotion will move your ad up to the top of the listings once every day for 7 days. Meaning your Ad will be on top of the listings 7 times!

iSpace is a unique environment where technology startups can start up faster. We nurture a local network of like-minded and focused tech entrepreneurs, providing places where they can work, meet, collaborate, network, learn and have fun. Follow iSpace on Google+ for more updates. iSpace is gradually taking shape and would love to hear from you if you are interested in volunteering some of your time in any of the positions below. 1. Social Media Volunteer Description If  you have a passion for social media and can demonstrate your understanding of social media backed up with some work experience then iSpace would love for you to join the volunteer team. This is a great position for anyone who loves digital, enjoys writing and knows a thing or two about online marketing. What you will be doing Online marketing and communications Identifying bloggers and building relationships with them Using social media to promote iSpace Building the iSpace brand onlin...

How Photographing Your Food Can Help Fight World Hunger

Support +kofi yeboah , a final year student from the University of Cape Coast, studying Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Sociology) and an intern at the West African Trade Hub, Accra Ghana.He was selected as one of the young Africans to know in 2013.  He has been selected to be part of the Preparing Global Leaders Academy in Amman , Jordan, from April 4-11, 2013. Preparing Global Leaders Academy (PGLA) is a premiere international educational program for the best students and young professionals in the world.  PGLA’s specific strategy is to help participants maximize their potential and develop leadership and communication skills. The program seeks to prepare aspiring global scholar-leaders with the tools that are necessary for effective leadership in an increasingly complex world. He was chosen among a pool of over 300 outstanding applicants to join fellow young leaders from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South East Asia and the United States

MPower is not yet another payment system or gateway in Ghana. It provides simple and secure payment solution for consumers and businesses with a better payment experience.  For the developers interested in trying their APIs out, here is the developer guide . MPower provides easy API integration with a lot of examples to enable transactions fit your online checkout process and POS Systems. 

+Truston Ailende  the Nigerian Desktop and Web game developer has released his second free game for both Windows desktop and HTML5. The game is called Maths Magic. You can download the desktop version here and also try your hands on the web version if that is your preferred. The simple game is designed to test arithmetic skills of a player. The web version however at the moment is still being worked on to optimise and render well on mobile devices so prepare for some uncomfortable feel if you open it on your small screen mobile device. Find the game in action in the demo video

In my attempt to explain and demonstrate the usefulness of #GAS, we have taken a look at how to use it to: Add / Delete Calendar Events ; Add Custom Menu Buttons to our functions . We will now take a look at how to Send Bulk Emails using Google Apps Script. Please don't spam people with this!!!

You have written your first Apps Script and it runs perfectly from the script editor, good job so far. But did you know you can add custom menu items to your Spreadsheet ? I briefly explained this in the post " Add / Delete Calendar event with Google Apps Script " and I will explain further here how the method responsible for adding menu works with an example script.

+Guy Kawasaki , a silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author and Co-founder of Alltop.com  is giving away four of his books for free to celebrate the New Year. The books are: What the Plus!, The Macintosh Way, Database 101 and the Computer Curmudgeon. Download copies here . 

Enjoy some of the highlights of what happened in 2012 in the Ghana technology space.

Adsbrook ,  a web and mobile advertising platform which delivers relevant local ads is giving away 5K impressions for free in January. Go ahead and sign up for your free ads so you can reach a fast growing number of online and mobile users through a single platform. Simply send a message to info@adsbrook.com about the offer. 

Google Apps Script is useful for building simple and complicated solutions on top of the various editions of   Google Apps ; Business , Education and Government . You can still write GAS code with your gmail account from your drive  even if you don't have an Apps account. Writing Google Apps Script is very easy, if you know how to write javascript, it gets easy for you.

Let's take a look at how we can add and delete calendar events using Google Apps Script. Follow the previous tutorial on " Writing Google Apps Script " if you do not have the basics.

GODI stands for  Ghana Open Data Initiative. It is a portal populated with raw data ranging from Census data, Election data, Health data, Education data, Agricultural data, Telco Quality of Service data, Procurement data, Budget data and many more.  GODI was launched today  at the Accra International Conference Centrer during the 2nd General Meeting of  the Information Technology Association of Ghana (ITAG) with the Ministry of Communications and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA).

The Information Technology  Association  of  Ghana  ( ITAG ),  in partnership with the Ministry of Communications, National Information Technology Agency,  Ghana  Open Data Initiative,  KPMG  Ghana  and IPMC will  hold  its  2nd   General   Meeting  on 20 December, 2012 at the Accra International Conference Center from  8:00am . 

I have already explained in a previous post what Google Apps Script or GAS is. Will use this post to explain the steps needed to write a script and walk you through a simple script that creates a new Google Document and email the link of the created document.

Within the same period Google released Maps for the iPhone , they made other changes to their browser based mapping tools as well. Google some few days ago introduced a New Review Panel in their next steps towards enhancing the Google Map Maker experience.

Ghana Buzz is a mobile app that aggregates top stories from the most Popular Ghana News Feeds like Modern Ghana, Ghana Web, Ghana Decides, Ghana Music.Com among others. It also pulls trending tweets and videos from YouTube.

Google Apps Script is a cloud based scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products such as Google Apps, Calendar, Gmail, Sites, Contacts, Spreadsheets etc as well as other third party services.