Popstylejamaica.com vs Fashionoverstyle.net.Why Content will always be King
April 11, 2008
There are two Jamaica magazine sites that are focused on fashion and vying for local and global attention.They are fashionoverstyle.net and popstylejamaica.com. Both have great potential; neither of them is realizing it. Read more
Jamaica’s Oprah on Facebook- Lisa O’Gilvie
April 9, 2008
This the story of how a single person can leverage the power of social media to promote products, make money and change lives. Lisa O’Gilvie, an entrepreneur, events planner chose the latter, she’s fast becoming Jamaica’s Oprah on Facebook. She started the online charity called Well Heeled Jamaican-Are you one of them? Read more
ANALOG hit maker turned DIGITAL King Singa
April 2, 2008
Diana King aka King Singa is a Jamaican Reggae Soul Music icon. The voice, the sex appeal, the hits are all unforgettable, even within the context of how the Internet has transformed the music industry, Read more
Christianvibes.com-Friends Who Love Jesus
March 21, 2008
Christians need love and connections too. Now they can get it online with Christianvibes.com. And you know this idea would come out of a Bible belt country like Jamaica. It’s a Jamaican gift to the world of Christians online.
Why aren’t Caribbean brands getting a “Second Life”?
March 12, 2008
by Susan LeeQuee
SC FLASHBACK- In the Caribbean, we have unique and successful brands, not to mention the seasonal sold out music events and parties, that keep visitors clamouring to come hang out with us. Now why don’t we take all this Caribbean brand currency that we have regionally and globally and take one giant step further. Caribbean brands should be looking to get a “Second Life” – get into the building their virtual brands or metabrand experiences in Second Life. Read more
WHo’s Online Caribbean
March 10, 2008
SC FLASHBACK-With just under 40 million people living in the English, Spanish and French Caribbean, only 5.2 million or 15% of them are online, according to the stats from internetworldtstats.
By just looking at raw numbers, the Caribbean countries on top are Dominican Republic with 1,5million people online, Jamaica(1.06m),Puerto Rico(1m),Haiti (600,000), Cuba (190,000) and Barbados and Trinidad (160,000). But when you look at the internet penetration rates which indicates the percentage of the country’s population are internet users in the region and compare, what you see is Barbados leading in the region with 59.8%, then Antigua 40%, Jamaica 39.4%, Aruba 34.1% and St Lucia 32%.
It is interesting to note that the Caribbean’s overall internet penetration rate is three percent below the world average and also that of Central America, both are 18%.
Additionally, a quick look at where things are worldwide shows, The United States leads the world with 69% internet penetration…not hard to see why they have dominated the online culture and commerce for so long. Then there is Asia which has 11.8% percent of their population online and Europe 39.8%.
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My 3 month old MacBook died on Friday(Thank God for the warranty)
March 9, 2008
Having been born,bred and Mac fed since 1994 I bought my midrange MacBook in New York last December at the Apple store. The sucker died on me on Friday. I became confused,pissed then calm when I found the receipt I kept.
It turns out that the logic board is toast but I can get all my data has been recovered execpt the tonnes of email I tend to save. Funny this is what happened to my iBook a few years go, but I didn’t keep the receipt and then,there was no authorised and certified Apple service provider in Jamaica. I head back to New York end of this month for client business, so you know I am going back into the store calm, smiling and demanding a completely new replacement…thank God the warranty is in place.
Yeah I know it’s a machine and things do happen, but you know how we Mac addicts can be about our babies, we do not expect flaws, we demand the impossible…perfection. I am writing this on a borrowed iMac until my new baby is once again home with me. *sniff* *sniff*
CaribConfessions.com- just let it out!
March 6, 2008
Ahhhh where anonymity is king and queen. Here is a site to go confess to pretty much anything that’s taboo - Cheating/Infidelity, Love/Hate, Gross/Disgusting, Gay/Straight, Sex,Religion,Weird Fetish, Girlfriend/Boyfriend, Husband/Wife,Home & Family. And while you may be there to unload a confession, you can vote on others too. They use the popular pligg (digg clone) site setup. It’s brought to you by the developers of caribsingles.com…hmmmm some experimentation happening here!
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The $40,000 Macbook Air
March 5, 2008
I was following my love for all things Mac, when I happened upon one that costs US$40,000. Yep, it’s a Macbook Air decked in 12,000 Swarovski crystals that has also been dipped in 24k gold. This blinged out MackBook Air is called “Golden Age” and is done by the service found at the following site..bling-my-thing.com. Only 20 exists and are being sold to who are called true luxury addicts.
Music Lessons….The global music industry..disrupted
March 1, 2008
I read Seth Godin, marketing guru at least 3 times a week. He recently wrote this post on the global music business. Since I live in the Caribbean and Reggae and Soca music is invented here, I think our music industry could stand to take a whiff of this.
MUSIC Lessons
Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart)
The first rule is so important, it’s rule 0:
0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will be. But if you wait until then, it’s going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don’t fool yourself into believing it’s going to be here forever. It won’t.
1. Past performance is no guarantee of future success
Every single industry changes and, eventually, fades. Just because you made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.
The music business had a spectacular run alongside the baby boomers. Starting with the Beatles and Dylan, they just kept minting money. The co-incidence of expanding purchasing power of teens along with the birth of rock, the invention of the transistor and changing social mores meant a long, long growth curve.
As a result, the music business built huge systems. They created top-heavy organizations, dedicated superstores, a loss-leader touring industry, extraordinarily high profit margins, MTV and more. It was a well-greased system, but the key question: why did it deserve to last forever? It didn’t. Yours doesn’t either. More
