So while I was minding everyone’s business on Facebook as usual, I saw this group with a weird name and it had to do with food and Caribbean Food at that. So on further investigation and a few emails later, I got to the bottom of it all. Here’s the email interview I did with this startup called Oodge.
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We made it. CaribClix.com – the Caribbean’s first online ad network was featured on Jeremy Schoemaker’s ShoeMoney.com one of the most influential and heavily trafficked blog media sites online. His site focuses on showing people how to make money online and has 25,000+ unique visitors per day that are very focused on making money online/internet marketing, a monthly readership by email of just under 40,000 people, 21,000 followers on Twitter, his blog as also made Technorati.com’s top 100 most read blogs two years running and he’s a regular speaker on the major conference circuits. CaribClix sent him a tshirt with the logo and slogan hoping he’d wear it on one of his Free-Shirt Fridays promotions. So after about 3 months, BAM! It happened today. Yeah Check it out
So what does it really mean?
In a sentence- great brand awareness and exposure for CaribClix- a Jamaica-based online ad network startup that targets Caribbean Audiences worldwide. It’s a one stop online advertising service for companies who want to target locally in their own country’s market e.g Jamaican companies targeting Jamaicans or for a Trinidadian company wanting to reach Trinidadians in the United States, United Kingdom or Canada or a US, Canadian or British company wanting to target Caribbean audiences in their own countries or in the Caribbean region.
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When it comes to calling back home, New York-based Jamaicans are racking up those minutes. According to a new report by Saskia Sassen, titled New York City’s Two Global Geographies Of Talk, Kingston, Jamaica accounted for about ten percent of all calls out of Brooklyn, according to AT&T data analyzed.
And together, Kingston, Santo Domingo and Haiti accounted for seventeen percent of all calls out of Brooklyn. In the Bronx, Kingston and Santo Domingo accounted for thirty percent of calls made. New York City’s total foreign-born population stood at almost 2.9 million according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The largest single groups were 370,000 Dominicans, 262,000 Chinese and 179,000 Jamaicans.Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
source: Caribbean World News Network
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We wrote a post yesterday based on one of those shhh I’m telling this only to you type emails we got which suggested that Smutvibes.com a vibrant naughty site started by an entrepreneurial Jamaican was up for sale. Since then the actual owner responded to the post by saying…Smutvibes.com is not for sale.
He continued by adding: “In no way, shape or form are we selling SmutVibes. The website is still in it’s infancy and this part of the market is unsaturated and we will be taking full advantage of it.”
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Ok I know a pretty strange pairing of companies and sale information but why not. I heard about the sale of both of them through the grapevine. I was told that Call the Planet the Internet Phone Company (Consumer and Business VOIP) is up for sale, the company which launched in Jamaica less than 5 years ago and had investments of over US$5 Million in infrastructure,has not been doing well this past year and is now trying to cut their losses, sell out and retreat from the market.
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Apple: The traditional labels — and everyone else — keep trying, but no one has dented iTunes’ supremacy. In 2008, Apple surpassed Wal-Mart as the world’s largest music retailer.
Warner Music Group: Digital sales were up 39%, thanks in part to a ramped-up MP3 effort in 2008. WMG also partnered with Nokia on an all-access music channel that lives on your phone.
Imeem: After buying up Anywhere.fm and Snocap, Imeem found itself one of the top social networks of 2008, according to Nielsen.
Pandora: The music-discovery machine of the 21st century has taken the serendipity out of finding new music that fits your tastes. Just one step ahead of competitor Last.fm.
Last.fm: Later to the party than Pandora, but a growing force that includes info on concerts and artists, plus video.
South by Southwest: The Austin-based music-and-media festival attracts more than 1,800 acts and 150,000 attendees. Despite a grassroots approach, a standout showing can make an artist.
MTV Music Group: A slew of new digital initiatives are one part of president Van Toffler’s remaking. Another: the $175 million purchase of Rock Band game maker Harmonix.
Radiohead: The band that spawned direct-to-fans releases made two songs available for remix — and let users vote for the winner on its site. Amateurs and professionals alike joined in.
Live Nation: The concert promoter continued to sign A-list artists to distribution deals and further increased its live-events footprint.
Pitchfork Media: The popular and wildly influential music blog recently added video and inked a deal with Fader Media for integrated advertising and sponsorship across all platforms.
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I said it on Facebook and I have to say it again here. *Jah, take the wheel*. Reggae.com the domain name was wisely registered for ten years back in 1995. The thing is, that since I’ve been surfing on over there, maybe once or twice a year for the past number of years, it looks the same- a hellish mish mash of things stuck on a page hoping the lover of reggae music will tolerate wading through the madness to get to where they want to go. Hope does spring eternal for this site owner.
But come on, Reggae Music is such a global cultural tour de force, don’t you think it deserves a professionaly design site that makes it easy for lovers of reggae globally to go there and connect with some of the obviously really great audio and text content that’s there?
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I opened my first twitter account on September 4th, 2008. I figured, I’m a technology blogger, I test-drive lots of products, services and website, so why not this-since the buzz was getting hot and heavy. After I set it for my blog siliconcaribe.com, twitter.com/siliconcaribe, I twittered exactly twice there after and abandoned it. I just didn’t get it.
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