We announced here this exact day last year that we had broken through the 100,000 mark on Alexa and we set another goal for ourselves. Well, we have broken that goal as we are now past the 50,000 mark on Alexa! Sturvs is also now in the Alexa Top 100 Sites in Nigeria. Sweet!

We’ve launched our own advertising platform which lets you gain exposure to 3000 Nigerians who visit our website daily.

50% off till Jan 31st!

Click here for more info and pricing:

http://www.sturvs.com/ads

Our advertising is perfect for

• Musicians
• Businesses
• Online Stores
• Events
• Blogs
• E-Magazines
• Other Nigerian websites

Here are our stats for 2008.

We have just launched a new cleaner design for Sturvs.com in preparation for the new year and to also to celebrate the Christmas season. 2008 has been good but 2009 is sure to be better.

Sturvs has been included on http://africa.alltop.com. Alltop is owned by Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who we met at the recently concluded BarCampAfrica (we need to put out some pics by the way).

From the website:

Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. We update the stories every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and we’ll deliver it to you 24 x 7. All the topics, all the time.

Sturvs is an official sponsor for BarCampAfrica. Some other sponsors of this event are Google, Wordpress, Afrigator and allAfrica. The full sponsor list can be found here.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants. Find out more at http://barcamp.org.

We are currently at event on the Google Campus in Mountain View, California as I blog. California is a sweet place to be, a little bit cold though.

Pictures will be posted later. Live streaming of the event is currently available at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/barcampafricapanels. Feel free to watch and look out for the Sturvs logo.

We had a bug on our site which made stories display the wrong number of comments on each story but we have it fixed now.

We had disabled our search engine earlier in the year, not too long after launch, because we had to make a sharp change in technology. We are working on it right now and will soon be launching it soon. It will be packed with features and will raise the bar of online search in Nigeria.

You can follow Sturvs on Twitter. If you don’t have a Twitter account, we suggest you get one.

You can now invite any of your friends from your address book on Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Lycos and many other major email providers here: http://www.sturvs.com/invite