Oluwatobi Soyombo

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Technology

2015

My experience interviewing 40 students

We’re hiring 6 developers. Our recruitment partner, CareerForce suggested we hire from one of the best private Universities in Bangalore. So, we agreed after much contemplation. I interviewed about…

Online content monetization: A future look

Let’s admit it. Ads are annoying. How many of us like to be interrupted by ads while enjoying our favourite content (either on TV, radio or on the web)? The average editor or content producer may a…

2014

Sell benefits, not features

Nothing beats simplicity. Read that again. Features are overrated. Your customers don’t freaking care about features. What they care about is benefits. Successful marketers have mastered this…

2013

Technology done wrong: A mini rant on V3 slim care

Few days ago, I finally decided (at the last minute) to rejuvenate after the  stress business school had put me through. Being a deal snatcher, I immediately visited my favourite …

2012

3 app types to increase your productivity

In one of my recent articles on YNaija, I stated expressly that “having a smart phone should make you smarter”. The truth about this cannot be overemphasized. One of the major impacts of technology on today’s world is “Increased Productivity”. ...

Beyond Codes: My advice to Nigerian developers

I once had a PHP tutor in Agege, Lagos, who claims that he can put together all the codes used to develop Facebook. “There is nothing in Facebook, I can write the codes”, he often say to me. My tut…

Evolve or Die!

Welcome to the 21st century, an era where trends change rapidly. The days we live in are those in which technology keeps changes everything. From banking to Education, from aviation to communicatio...

Google’s First Office

It’s amazing how things change with time. I am just wandering the spark Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in their brain when they founded Google. I’ve been a Google fan boy for some time now and I te...

How to Manage Information Overload

In the days where chunks of Information are either a Google search away or a few tweets away, it is a wise idea to know how to filter the flow of information at one’s direction. Truth be told, information overload sucks. I’ve seen too many people ...