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I have always been an advocate of rich multimedia applications, motion graphics, and video ever since I started to develop for the Internet in 1995. I will give a brief history that will illustrate the importance of Flash and its contribution to the web and cross-platform presentations and why Apple’s fight with Adobe is really, an Apple fight with Google.
Mark Allan, Ceo of One Studio
I welcome a long time friend and colleague Mark Allan, who was a partner in Net Vision Interactive, one of Jamaica’s the premier web development companies in the 1990s. He and his partner Marc Edwards at the height of the dotcom boom, were recruited by a Hong Kong based company. Mark Allan has been living, programming and being a club disc jockey between Hong Kong and Vietnam for the past 10 years and is the Ceo of One Studio. He was a speaker on the very first Kingston Beta ( by Skype Video) held in January 2007.
www.KingstonBeta.com
Kingston Beta is the event that is staged by ConnectiMass the Caribbean Digital Marketing Agency that I run and this blog. We’re happy to announce that we open the 2010 season with a new sponsor and a new location. Here’s are the top 5 things that’s new with Kingston Beta.
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CaribbeanChick.com in 2010
CaribbeanChick.com launched in October 2007 and positioned itself as an online magazine “for every woman.” The site stated that “it is designed to be informative and entertaining, fun and easy to use. Our content focuses on the themes that are at the core of every woman’s life: health, work, relationships, finances, our family, fashion and beauty, the whole well being of a woman.” I had wished them luck, as while their intention had been great, I figured trying to be all things to all women was a slippery slope. They had no distinct angle or focus and by May 2008 took a dive into the dotcom deadpool.
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Blogoria in 2010
Blogoria.com, launched by a New York-based Jamaican tech entrepreneur could have been easily labelled the facebook for bloggers. It was launched in November 2007 as a free networking tool that connects Bloggers with other Bloggers, Blog Lovers and Advertisers. Fast Foward to January 2010 and it has morphed into an Alltop styled Blog Search tool.
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You can find extensive listings of Caribbean Blogs on top5jamaica.com. You can find a growing list of blogs on CUblogz.com even more so that Cariblogger.com seemed to have dived into the dotcom dead pool. You can follow some of the regularly updated Caribbean blogs on blogscaribe.com and blogjamaica. And You can find a small and growing community of Caribbean Bloggers on Facebook. Last year I was happy to report that there was a Caribbean Blog boom brewing, we had discovered how easy it was to start a blog with wordpress and blogger and we were happy.
British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless plc (C&W) set out the final terms of its demerger on Tuesday, including a US$500 million bond offer. C&W said it plans to split into two separate companies by March 26, as it provided its final trading update as a sole company. Listings for the two companies, Cable & Wireless Communications and Cable and Wireless Worldwide, will be sought on the London Stock Exchange, on March 22 and March 26, respectively.
Does this mean by end of March, Claro can buy them or merge with them? lol. Ingrid behave yourself *slaps self on wrist.*
This is what I’ve been seeing for the past two days. I hope they’re just switching servers or something and didn’t fall into the dotcome dead pool. I had high hopes for Cariblogger.com.
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Jamaica’s not used to this style of advertising-Confrontational, use of a competitor’s colours and clear references. It’s more, well, American. In Jamaica we’ve grown used to the British, conservative, safe and frankly rather polite and boring way of advertising things. The market has now gotten a shake up as Claro the well heeled, mobile service provider newbie is doing things very differently.
Yes Digicel boasted that they had over 20,000 Facebook Fans in less than 2 months by doing what one of the things they do well, engaging their loyal consumers with credit giveaways and promotions. Claro’s presence on Facebook on the other hand, has been, well negligible. Somewhat expected I think, as Digicel is still number one in the marketplace, they still enjoy great affinity and Claro is still third in many people’s minds even as they announced they were now number 2. BUT and a big but here, is that Claro is positioning themselves as new and of greater value for money in an environment where many Jamaicans are counting their coins and being selective about where to spend them.
So Claro decides to grab their attention and enter the social media space differently.
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Mobile messaging revenues worldwide are expected to grow to $233 billion in 2014, up from about $150 billion in 2009, according to a new forecast issued by Portio Research. Portio reports that global SMS traffic exceeded 5 trillion messages in 2009, a total expected to double by 2013–more than 4 billion subscribers have now embraced texting, the firm adds. In addition, MMS continues to grow, with full-year revenues for 2009 close to $27 billion worldwide (comparable to what SMS generated five years ago).
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It’s nice to know that there are services that can let you know if someone is plaigarising your articles, your content. I happened to have found a site who had unknowingly carried a short article on Caribbean social networks. A quick look told me that the writer clearly read and snatched words, phrases, sentences and information from my article Which Caribbean social network will be number one? I tapped the site owner on the shoulder and he used CopyScape, the Duplication Content Detection Software to double check and BAM! the “writer” was caught red handed and the article was removed. It’s a pity that there are still people who would rather snatch than create their own, but, there’s now copyscape.com to our rescue.
