How do you make money with a website?
October 19, 2007
by David Mullings
This is not a post telling you how to make money on the web, it is asking how Caribbean entrepreneurs are generating money from websites and whether or not their plan is to merely cover some costs and make a little extra money or to generate significant money from the venture. Read more
SiliconCaribe: Caribbean Wifi Directory Launched
October 19, 2007
Jamaica-Dear readers, we’ve added a Caribbean Wifi Directory, a resource aggregated for your convenience. We want locals and visitors to the region and individual countrie to have it easy in finding a place to get online. How else can they indulge the facebook addiction. We’re sure we’ve missed some places so do email us and we’ll add you for free by contacting us here. Read, enjoy, pass it on.
Caribbean students,Turn your textbooks into cash
October 17, 2007
Jamaica- The BookStand Online-it’s Jamaican and we like this idea. You can sell your used textbooks online to other students. You can join to buy or sell used textbooks for free. They’ve monetized the site so far ith google ads, but frankly the data they are collecting is far more valuable.
WIZZIT- Mobile banking comes to South Africa
October 17, 2007
South Africa-Wizzit describes their offering as a low cost,trancsacttional bank account that uses cellphones for marking person to person patments, transfers and pre-paid purchases and a Maestro debit card for making payments in the formal retail environment. Their target market – the unbanked and underbanked South Africans
Reporting from Facebook
October 17, 2007
There are a few new and interesting groups recently formed on facebook are Caribbean Bloggers Massive which is for Caribbean people who blog, whether they live in the Caribbean or abroad: Jamaican Gourmet Chefs and Gourmands For us Jamaicans (and Honorary Jamaicans), who love to cook and eat Fine Food!: The Auction House Ltd. Labeled The best way to buy and sell goods in Jamaica!! (Simple, Easy, Convenient…and Great Deals!!): rumbarjamaica which is the facebook group for rumbarjamaica.com a link and drink social networking site; and the one we’re watching to see if the owner is going to actually convert and monetize is the largest Caribbean facebook group You Know Ur A True West Indian When….which has as it’s description:This One is For all of my True West Indians….Trinis, Jamaicans, Bajans, Hatians…
TATT Awards Wireless Broadband Licenses
October 17, 2007
Cable operators Telstar Cable System and Green Dot have each won 10-year spectrum licenses for broadband and wireless services.Telstar won all 12 blocks in the 12Ghz band at US$650,000 per block per year, meaning a total of US$7.8mn a year, the report said.Green Dot took three blocks in the lower 700Mhz band, at US$177,000 per block per year, which adds up to US$531,000 a year, the report said. Read more
Jam247.tv - streaming events live from Jamaica and around the world
October 16, 2007
Jamaica- It seems the Content people heard about our discussions and came forward. Jam247.tv is a site that offers live, on demand,pay per view and music video content. The content is focused on Jamaican music, culture and events at home and abroad.
Become an idea clone and make millions
October 15, 2007
by David MullingsI recently received my last issue of Business 2.0 and just had to recommend the following article to the readers of this column. you can find it here: The Kopy Kat Kids http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/02/technology/kopy_kat_kids.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007100214}In my advisory capacities with mentees, other entrepreneurs and business-owners, I always pass on a vital lesson I learnt during my MBA program - you don’t have to come up with something new to be successful.This article is a perfect example of how adaption of successful ideas for a different culture can make millions and it is a playbook that many of us should be taking a look at. A few people prefer to only focus on original ideas - that is their prerogative - but there is no doubt that adapting a proven idea is the easier way to success and profit than being original. Read more
IDNs-What’s in it for the Caribbean?
October 15, 2007
By Suzette Gardner
Starting Monday, October 15, 2007 at least 4 billion netizens will be able to log on to the internet through URLs that will be in their own native script according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the U.S. based organization responsible for the global coordination of the Internet’s system of unique identifiers such as domain names.
Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil are the first languages will begin this journey away from English, the Latin based script that has controlled programming and limited accessibility for billions around the world. Finally, speakers of the above languages can say bye-bye to typing .com, .net, .org, .biz or any of the other English based domain extensions and start using extensions written in their own script.
The Internet Killed the CDSales Star. Madonna dumps record label.
October 11, 2007
Always the trailblazer, Madonna has done it again. She’s dumped the record industry, signed a US$120 million deal with LA based concert and promotion firm Live Nation to distribute studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license Madonna’s name.
Sooo, while Madonna will not be offering direct to public albums, as Live Nation isn’t a record company- this deal shows that even for a world famous artiste like her, a record company is no longer required in these days of digital downloads and P2P music sharing.
