Archives for November, 2008

It’s November 25th, 2008 and eBay is going down in flames. Traffic has dropped off 20% this year alone with no hope in sight. What ...

Building a startup is hard. There are many problems that can hurt a startup—perhaps even kill it. This article examines some of the more common ...

If you were offered the choice to create one of two businesses—a web development shop where you do bespoke work for clients, or a start-up ...

A new report from Nielsen finds that television viewership is on the rise (at least in the US), hitting record numbers last quarter in terms of viewership, ...

Just as many Web retailers feared, online shoppers are being unusually frugal this holiday season. During the first 23 days of November, according to a report ...

It may be better to give than to receive, but for those on the receiving end, there's no doubt real-world gifts are better than virtual ...

The new look comes with additional multi-lingual functionality as well as updated family filters and an integrated forum. While the version one videos were migrated ...

Here’s a rumor that won’t go away - Facebook has been quietly searching for a partner to take over their year and a half old ...

I've been on this continued binge of sharing interesting stuff I find online to share with you as well as writing original stuff that's ...

I don't know about you but I have been observing a significant shift in how people communicate, professionally as well as socially and privately. ...

Cariblogger launched about two months ago and currently has 129 blogs and 615 posts. The site is the idea of an all-Caribbean team – Trinidadian, ...

I saw this and had to share it. And if you've been reading this blog enough you know I think very, very highly of Seth, ...

With people minds on their money and how to make more and save more money on their minds, the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper has launched a ...

I've written about and have been using Herrd.com for many moons now and this week I've been getting this malware warning when I surf on ...

Google released a new keyword last tonight, named the Search-Based Keyword Tool. This tool goes beyond what the other Google tools provide and tells you ...

Mobile messaging is experiencing a period of record growth, according to some figures released from VeriSign earlier this week. Looking at the numbers more closely, ...

If I see one more Jamaican entertainment news site or blog with the same news, same pics and same music videos I'm going to scream! ...

I had a bit of an email banter with a friend of mine about the benefits of sites such as linkedin.com and now a Caribbean ...

  My answer to this headline was a quick yes and I have been "victim" of this. Check this post from ReadWriteWeb.com. Has this happened to ...

Miss World is going digital. While many American readers may not be familiar with the competition (it isn’t the one owned by Donald Trump - ...

Entrepreneurs love to point to the success of "self-made" people like Bill Gates as proof that hard work, solid ideas and solid execution are the ...

Iriecity.com is yet another social network born from the Jamaican culture. I like the sizzle that they seek to sell though…here’s their homepage pitch “ ...

Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million ...

You probably don't need to read this, but I bet you know people who do. Please feel free to repost or forward: Times are tough, ...

Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a source says (unconfirmed). And Facebook CFO Gideon Yu ...