Facebook Platform which was launched in May 2007, now has nearly 20,000 application has been released by third party deevelopers including 3 from the Caribbean.

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dotcom GEAR, a fresh Tshirt line is launched and we need your help. Since Jamaicans and Caribbean individuals are going online in record numbers, a pace which will quicken this year…

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Every day we cringe from the badnews (at least for some) that the priceof gas has gone up…AGAIN. Now this usually triggers a dominoes effect on a bunch of things-groceries and electricity bills jump; people start using trains,buses,scooters more;cheap retail becomes chic for the many….so I wondered since many people will be watching how they spend on gas, cutting their travel plans a bit, will it means more people will be “travelling” online?

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It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming, but they first made the annoucement like 11 months ago. So European regulators finally approved Google’s US$3.1 billion takeover of the online advertising company, the final hurdle to a deal that would strengthen Google’s already powerful position on the Web.
According to the New York times report “The merger had been opposed by rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft, which had voiced concern about Google’s advertising clout, as well as by consumer groups, which feared that the combined company would have access to a large amount of data on individual Web-surfing habits.”
IS this really too much power to Google or you all really couldn’t care less, since you’re Saying it Loud Google Adsense Ho’ and Proud.

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SC FLASHBACK,Trinidad- The number one Trinidadian site visited by Trinidadians is trinituner.com, Trinidad’s largest car site that mixes car classifieds and community for car lovers. Second is the University of the West Indies Trinidadian campus, Third is the telecom provider TSTT, next is one of the daily newspapers Trinidad Express then an online community site called triniscene.com.

The TOP10
1. Trinituner.com
2. Uwi.edu
3. Tstt.net.tt
4. Trinidadexpress.com
5. Triniscene.com
6. Trinidadguardian.co.tt
7. Trinipulse.com
8. Uwi.tt
9. Carnivaltribe.com
10. Trinitaku.com

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SC FLASHBACK- If IMMI-MERCE shows the business potential of millions of immigrants traveling back and forth between new and old worlds physically and by the Internet, then DIASPORA MANAGEMENT is all about governments putting their former citizens to good use.

And we’re not talking manipulative religious or political plots to use immigrants as evangelizing outposts to raise money, but establishing strong business and cultural communities that promote the best and brightest from the ‘motherland’ in their new countries of residence.

One nation exploring DIASPORA MANAGEMENT is India, whose government and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry recently invited 2000 extremely successful ‘non-resident’ Indians from 63 countries to New Delhi, to determine how the resources and achievements of Indians abroad might be used to uplift India. One juicy detail which hadn’t escaped the Indian government, is that Chinese non-residents have invested about $60 billion in China, while that number for India is only $1 billion from non-resident Indians. (Source: NYT).

In the Caribbean, The Jamaican government staged a Jamaican Diaspora conference June 2004 and launched a website, www.jamaicandiaspora.org soon after. Jamaica also hosted a Caribbean. Additionally, Caribbean governments has sent missions to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to sell immigrants and their families on the benefits of investing back home.
A study was done and found that Caribbean Americans have an annual of US$40b dollars and send home on average US$1b in remittances.

The opportunities that DIASPORA MANAGEMENT has to offer are endless. Very few nations have an active, creative business strategy for getting the most from their non-resident citizens. Country-specific promotions abroad still tend to focus on setting up semi-diplomatic representations, not involving local communities of fellow country-men. Think foreign investment agencies or the Thai initiative to set up a government-sponsored chain of Thai restaurants in countries around the world to stimulate tourism to Thailand.

Whether it’s a celebration of national culture, foreign investments, encouraging HOME TROTTING or improving ties in trade and manufacturing: nations from Hungary to Jamaica, Trinidad and Haiti have a world to gain.
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