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These are some Frequently Asked Questions about this service, with some answers.

What is NaijaPulse?

NaijaPulse is a micro-blogging service. You can use it to write short notices about yourself, where you are, and what you're doing, and those notices will be sent to all your friends and fans.

How is NaijaPulse different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?

NaijaPulse is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users' autonomy. In particular, all the software used for NaijaPulse is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.

The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.

Find below a list of tools and applications that you can use with NaijaPulse.

Posting a Message

  • Twhirl - A desktop client for social software such as NaijaPulse, Twitter, Friendfeed, identi.ca, or seesmic.
  • Ping FM - A simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap, supports NaijaPulse and 30 other services.
  • HelloTxt - A status manager that enables you to update your status on naijaPulse and across all of your social networks and microblogs with a single click.

RSS Feed to NaijaPulse

  • Twitterfeed - Feed your blog to NaijaPulse twitter, identi.ca, HelloTxt or Ping, update your NaijaPulse account from any (RSS or Atom) feed..

On the Iphone

  • Nambu - This free iphone app allows you to review timelines, send updates and re'pulse on NaijaPulse, retweet & access Twitter search.
  • LaTwit - A micro-blogging client that lets you read and send posts on NaijaPulse, Twitter or any Laconi.ca based social networking site.
  • Moconica - Point your iphone browser to moconica.com, enter your NaijaPulse login details.

On JAVA phones e.g N95

  • Mobidentica - Mobidentica is an application that can be installed on your Java phones, supports posting to NaijaPulse, identica and other OMB sites. Download the JAR file here.

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