Nigerian News today
Just a quick note to our loyal visitors. Please take some time to visit our sister site www.blabify.com which aggregates Soccer news from around the world.
With the world Cup around the corner, we know many of you are looking for whatever news you can find about your team. Visit www.blabify.com often, as we will be continuously trolling the web to bring you all the latest soccer news
Good News for those of you who subscribe to turenchi’s RSS feeds. You can now get the feeds in 2 new categories ie Sports and Entertainment.
The url to reach them are: http://www.turenchi.com/links/rss?cat=sports
and
http://www.turenchi.com/links/rss?cat=ent
respectively. We will update the widgets & rss page with this information shortly
Those of you who visited turenchi.com in January/February may remember that you used to be able to leave comments on any of the news stories on the website, and that we disabled the feature after a while.
The problem we had with the comments was that there were sometimes 4 or 5 news stories on the front page all essentially talking about the same thing. People would leave comments under each of the different headlines, and we were never able to keep the conversation in one place. The second part of the problem was that the website was updated with new items so quickly that an item you made a comment on could disappear from the front page in just a few hours, making it difficult for other people to continue the conversation.
We think we found a fix , we’ll be re-enabling comments on news stories, but this time all discussions can be found on a separate section of turenchi (www.turenchi.com/discussions) , and we added a feature so you can view all discussions related to the newsitem you are reading , so you can choose the appropriate discussion topic to leave your comments under.
Leaving a comment will require registration (which takes less than a minute), and we’ll be re-enabling the feature on June 1st
Admittedly, its been more than 100 days since that day in January when we first ‘turned on the lights’ at www.turenchi.com, but first 100 days sounds a heck of a lot better than “first 114 days 8 hours and 3 minutes”.
So what has happened since we opened shop in January? For one, we get a heck of a lot more than the 2 visitors we got on day 1. In our first month, most people interfaced with turenchi via our facebook application (apps.facebook.com/turenchi), but the focus has since shifted to our main website. We’ve also added an RSS feed, a mobile site (www.turenchi.com/mobile), and a widget you can embed in your own website (www.turenchi.com/widgets).
Along the way, we have run into people who mostly without prompting, helped us spread the word about turenchi, and for that we say a big thank you to everyone especially Loy of the now defunct startupsnigeria , and the guys from mootbox.com and notjuskok.com respectively. It has not been all smooth sailing though, as a fair number of people have had nothing good to say about us.
Consider this blog turenchi’s official notice board, where we’ll try to keep you up to date with our plans , and you in turn can leave feedback, especially as we introduce new features in the coming weeks.
Don’t forget to check this blog often.