We wrote a post on the Jamaica Gleaner last week with the headline- " Jamaica Gleaner,Caribbean’s oldest newspaper profits plummets, vows to focus on increased ...
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JamaicaObserver.com a few months ago changed the design of their website much to us and all their readers elation. The previous site was over give ...
This is a special invitation to all Jamaican bloggers to join us at the next Kingston Beta, this Thursday June 25th, at 6:30 p.m. at ...
I haven't posted a fresh blog since last week Wednesday, the day I got a call that my mom had a mild heart attack and ...
MusicPassNetwork.com is a site where you go to download the reggae singles you bought using the equivalent of a top up phone card. We first ...
It’s the worst time ever to start a company, right? Only if you’re not an entrepreneur.f you are an entrepreneur, the economics have never been ...
If you can listen in to Business Suite Today a radio show, this Wednesday(June 17th) 10am-2pm live online at bessfm.com and if you're in Jamaica ...
I'm a huge believer in networking both within your own industry and across many others. So when I got this in my inbox, thanks to ...
[caption id="attachment_1782" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="jamaica-gleaner.com"][/caption] The Jamaica-based Gleaner Company Ltd the oldest operating newspaper in the Caribbean, held its Annual General Meeting last week and reported ...
[caption id="attachment_1778" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="wallenfordblue.com"][/caption] I saw the Google ad and I clicked. When I landed on the site's homepage, I was stunned. The Jamaican-based coffee ...
Lots of people waited for 12:01 last night for the chance to grab their facebook.com/username vanity url. In fact Mashable.com reported that over 200,000 vanity ...
Does the fact that you can create a Fan Page, a group for your company, cafe or event, especially on social media sites like Facebook ...
It's pretty much study and exam time across the Caribbean right now, both at the high school and college levels. Most exams will be done ...
[caption id="attachment_1728" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="SusiesBakery.com"][/caption]Some businesses are asking what's the use in setting up a Website when everybody's on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter? Why not ...
I got wind of these stats and had to share them. 24 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS are projected online by 2010* according to an eMarketer, October ...
Sandor Panton, the search engine expert, affiliate marketer and entrepreneur behind top5jamaica.com tweeted a powerful question yesterday. RT@top5jamaica said "When will Jamaican companies, event organizers ...
First there was CaribTweet.com now their Folkstown.com. The site CaribTweet.com, Twitter for Caribbean small talk, launched just in January this year while Folkstown-Exploring Caribbean Conversations, ...
Yikes! There are only 334 companies on LinkedIn that have any thing to do with the Caribbean; 39 of those may be Jamaican, 25 may ...
This SiliconCaribe TV video blog is an exclusive prelaunch demo. It's about a Jamaican startup called Software Architects that has built a mobile phone app ...
Evan Williams had a great post on The StartupBlog Network titled, “ten rules for web startups” that every entreprenuer should read so I will reprint ...
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us were discussing as ot what were teh chief reasons for many Caribbean startups in the Tech/Internet/Mobile ...
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us got to talking about the amazing profits being made by Jamaican porn sites such as smutvibes.com ...
PileoJobs.com pitch is what you missed at the last Kingston Beta, you may have missed the post I wrote days after it launched calling ...
SiliconCaribe TV went to the Digicel Electronics Show last weekend. Generally it was underwhelming for anyone who's not impressed by the Blackberry cell phones, mirror ...
GitHub is a site that brings together more than 70,000 developers who specialize in writing computer software for open-source distribution. They use the site to ...