Sturvs
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| URL | www.sturvs.com |
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| Type of site | Social content website |
| Registration | Free |
| Owner | Antigravity, LLC. |
| Created by | Temi Kolawole |
| Launched | May 13, 2007 |
Sturvs is a Nigerian social bookmarking website where users can share news articles, music, videos and any other form of web content. It is a web 2.0 sharing and voting website that runs in a social and democratic manner, similar to popular website Digg[1], but for Nigerians[2]. Users are given the ability to vote on stories submitted by other users, and the stories with the highest votes make it to the front page. The word "sturvs" is a nigerian slang for "stuff", so basically it is just a place for Nigerians to view and share all their internet stuff.
The website was the first Nigerian social bookmarking website [3][4] and one of the first in Africa[5].
The website has a Facebook application, which was also the first ever Nigerian Facebook application. Another one of Sturvs' services is a search engine[6] (still in beta mode) which was launched in June 2008 and is geared towards finding search results related to Nigeria.
[edit] References
- ^ StartupsNigeria » Sturvs.com - Nigeria’s Social Bookmarking Version of Digg
- ^ Profile: Sturvs « TechMASAI
- ^ Sturvs.com launches first ever Nigerian Online Social Bookmark Service
- ^ Sturvs.com launches first ever Nigerian Online Social Bookmark Service
- ^ Events | Startup Africa
- ^ Sturvs Launches Nigerian Web Search Engine
