Adultfriendfinder.com’s sex is selling for US$1bn? Who’s buying?
November 17, 2007
We all know that sex sells and as of today almost 19million people, including 18,000 Jamaicans are buying into it online at adultfriendfinder.com the largest adult dating site online. So why do I mention this, well because techcrunch.com carried a story today that in essence said tha the company, adultfriendfinder.com is heavily and pretty credibly rumoured to be acquired for US$1billion dollars. Now that’s a great pay day! I’m quite curious as to who is buying the site. Makes you want to run out and start one huh…but we have a few of our own sex site born out of the Caribbean such as smutvibes.com, sjmagazineonline.com, jampersonals.com and www.jamaicansexstories.com.
I want to know..how many Jamaicans are online…exactly?
November 16, 2007
I want to know definitively how many Jamaicans access the Net at home, at work, at school, via free WIFIs and more so I want to know what excites Jamaicans about going online, if anything at all, are site publishers exciting Jamaicans at home about the potential of the digital lifestyle that awaits them online. I want to know if we mirroring global trends of social networking, dating, news and research and shopping online as prime activities.
I want to know.
Thecaribvibe.com-another Caribbean social network jumps in
November 14, 2007
Florida- And the Caribbean social networks just keep coming…and now there’s www.thecaribvibe.com, which brands itself as a site for anyone who enjoys
Launched on October 7, 2007, had an exciting launch at the Miami Caribbean Carnival Weekend at
Other online communities are:
caribbeanmassive.com,idletribes.com,caribfriends.com,caribplanet.com, vibesconnect.com,ackee.com,Jamaicans.com
Caribfriends.com-for Caribbean classmates now and back then launches in beta
November 14, 2007
Its just a few days old, Caribfriends.com was launched in beta this week and has positioned itself as a site for Caribbean classmates and Caribbean alumni worldwide. So you can sign on for free, create a profile, connect ith others and also set up your Class of “98, ‘88 group foe example.
Google Maps the Caribbean. So What’s Next? Use It!
November 13, 2007
by Suzette Gardner
Small towns hardly make big news in the world of online marketing technology; small islands even less so. While most of us have gotten over Google putting small town America on the map—in the most literal of ways, the Caribbean is just getting around to celebrating our inclusion.
Although, Google’s Street View has not made it here yet—that’s still only available for select neighborhoods in a few big U.S. cities such as NYC, Miami and Denver; the Caribbean maps provide the same detailed view of towns and infrastructure (and yes, beaches too) that it does for cities across the U.S. The only difference is that directions are not offered. Read more
The Grace Kennedy Group to spend JA$1m in online advertising next year
November 13, 2007
Yep, I got this from credible sources that the Jamaican conglomerate with strong financial services, food and beverage brands in the Caribbean and Diaspora markets in an initial online media buy will spend JA$1m between The Jamaica Gleaner, The Jamaica Observer and Radio Jamaica websites. They are all mainstream media brands with a strong Diaspora online audience. No while this is by no means a huge amount, it’s a star by a comglomerate that’s considered a major influencer in the Caribbean which can lead it’s competitors and other follower companies online to find opportunities to spend money to target Jamaican, Caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora and the tourist audiences.
The arguement extends too that while it’s great for GraceKennedy to begin online advertising with established media brands, it’s now that Caribbean site publishers can step up with sites that are professionally designed, regularly updated with great text,audio,video content and have credible statistics on the demographics of the site’s audience.
Caribbean Advertising firms plan to take Web seriously
November 13, 2007
by David MullingsI know for a fact that at least one major advertising firm in Jamaica is planning to hit the web hard in 2008 and start promoting their clients’ products and services.Most Caribbean businesses have limited online advertising presence and it seems that the online advertising fever in the US is spreading, which bodes well for site owners. This particular firm spent 6 weeks researching content-based Caribbean websites and they said that the most important factor they were looking at was… Read more
It’s all about online advertising these days
November 9, 2007
In the last few days, it’s been all about online advertising and announcements of new ad networks. Martha Stewart Omnimedia, BuzzMetrics and ZoomInfo will start their own ad networks. Most significantly, Facebook launched their ad network turning friends into endorsers.
Additionally,AOL bought Quigo, which helps publishers sell advertising on their own sites. And Google, the biggest ad network by far, said its site targeting will become even more targeted. It’s been all about online advertising one of the two business models that’s been working and making publishers money and advertising happy(the other is ecommerce).
Mexico’s America Movil Going 3G in 2008
November 9, 2007
Mexico- Latin American telecom giant America Movil said they will be launching high-speed third-generation handsets in the region in the first quarter of 2008,bid for more frequencies to expand their network and spend some US$3.2billion.
Blogoria.com - The facebook for bloggers launches tonight
November 7, 2007
by Casey McDonaldNew York- Blogoria.com, which can be easily labelled the facebook for bloggers, a free networking tool that connects Bloggers with other Bloggers, Blog Lovers and Advertisers, launches at midnight tonight. It has some of the most popular social networking features –add to friends list, add to favourites, send a message, chat now, make request to blog on specific blog. Each blogger also has a feed of their blog posts as part of their blogoria.com profile and can use blogoria.com as tool to build traffic to their blogs and get more advertising. The site is social networking savvy and is keeping with the solid growth trends of blogging and behavioural targeted online advertising.
The company which is based in New York has a Jamaican guy on the development team, hence we got the scoop. 
