Usain Bolt has brands such as Puma and Sandals in his camp, he is also a globally trademarked brand and yet his managers missed the US$10 per domain opportunity to register his usainbolt.com brand online? Come on! How coud his handlers be so shortsighted and sloppy to have let this happen.

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Thanks to NBC, I discovered Sportstrick.com. I ranted about NBC not carrying live action certain track and field races and blocking videos of them on Youtube. If you were a member of the Caribbean Diaspora living in the US you would have been particularly pissed about this. We did not see Usain Bolt record breaking performance live and a couple others.

I have gave 5 reasons why mainstream media like NBC must never again be given exclusive rights to cover major events like The Olympic Games and how I used Seth Godin’s book to prove it. But it’s all good. Thanks to NBC’s short sightedness and pre-digital era values – I discovered Sportstrick.com which describes itself as the first Video uploading News and Blogging website that dedicates its entire content to Sports.

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Reason 1. NBC Sucks! Who needs another Olympic Games filled with America’s self indulgent back patting, complete with fawning awe struck commentators. Hey don’t get me wrong, I like NBC, Katie Couric moving from The Today Show was upsetting and I still set my Blackberry to watch ER, I’m just peeved at the blackout of clearly important races to me a Jamaican. They were also races that were some of the most anticipated globally. A fact missed by NBC executives it seem.

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A friend of mine Susan, sent me this link, sendbeijing.com last night and I thought it was a clever idea to create a platform to shout out to your national Olympic team. At the same  time too, your country is competing with others around the world to see who can be the loudest country. Clearly they don’t know Caribbean people. We’re LOUD!

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I’m sure some of you have heard of a few of these amazing domain name sales, like the infamous and controversial domain Sex.com that was sold in January 2006 to a Boston-based company for US$14million. Then there are other mega domain name sales like

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It is rare to find a real money making opportunity for Caribbean bloggers and site publishers online outside of Google Adsense. Typically ad networks and affiliate programmes tend not to be relevant to Caribbean sites and blogs, especially if they don’t target and attract a US, European or Canadian audience. Even Google Adsense tends to assign greater value to clicks from US traffic than from traffic originating from the Caribbean. Enter Performancing Ads, they couldn’t care less about the source of your traffic or how large or small your blog or site is, they just want to help you monetize it.

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Alot of companies are betting on the rise of the Caribbean Web-those people and businesses in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora and what they are and will be doing online.

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Grace Kennedy, the Jamaican Conglomerate with the Caribbean famous and loved homegrown Grace brand is wasting money with their current online advertising campaign. Here’s how.

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As we continue to chronicle how Caribbean people and businesses are using Facebook. We have a couple of gems for you today. It’s the weekend, so why not start with something that for some maybe a little eyebrow raising.

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