Dancehall Reggae Music and News goes Mobile

Dancehall.mobi has taken Dancehall Reggae music and made it mobile. The blog and wap site launched a couple of days ago offers “dancehall bytes from Jamaica and across the Globe … directly to your cellphone or other Internet-enabled mobile device”. The owners of the sites explained that Dancehall.Mobi will serve up snippets of dancehall/reggae news from Jamaica and around the Globe, and it’s done specifically for users of cellphones, iPod Touch,iPhone, PDAs or other mobile device to access the Internet in mind.

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Will “Old Media” in the Caribbean finally “get it” in 2008?

by David MullingsDeals with IPTV companies in 2007 certainly showed that old media companies are aware of some of the opportunities presented by the web but do any of them have or plan to hire a “Digital Distribution and Business Development Manager” to identify and implement bigger strategies?When I spoke about massively distributed media and fragmentation last October at the Caribbean Media Conference, some of them were in the audience and MTVN’s recent announcement is exactly what I was alluding to as the future (Read MTV Networks Unveils Targeted Online Syndication Strategy). Our media companies need to be testing all avenues for getting their content to people and they have been extremely slow at doing this.Why have they have been so slow to grab the opportunity of the web and reach the Diaspora?I have said that online marketing will become much bigger in the Caribbean and amongst Caribbean companies in 2008 but will our media companies finally take on the web as a serious alternative avenue for reaching their target demographics this year?

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Caribbeancelebrity.com from the pics and videos to news and gossip

Caribbeancelebrity.com covers caribbean celebrities in music,fashion, movie and entertainment to celebrities with Caribbean lineage. Who knew that Alicia Key’s dad was Jamaican. Yardvibes.com which was its Jamaican forerunner would have been a competitor, except that it’s now in the deadpool.The new site is right now light on content. We like the idea, but content rules, so let’s see how the owners grow it.

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PLay Cricket and All Fours Games Online

by Dre. Allyuh.com

After having covered Brian Lara and his international video game, Pressure PLay you’d think that would be it. Well now if you want to play Cricket on your PC or All Fours Online you can easily do so.

All Fours Online
An online version of a popular local card game, it attempts to bring the authenticity and familiarity of all fours to the computer screen by allowing the different online modes of all fours and all twos, utilizing the familiar rules and scoring with the ultimate animation of hangjack included.

Features being worked on for future version include the ability to form teams and instant messaging support for “signs” to be sent between players. Read more

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Flytunes will bring Internet Radio to your iPhone

CES Las Vegas- WHile the iPhone has not arrived in the Caribbean officially, there are thousands cracked and in use by early adopters who paid from zero to US$100 to get them working on the Digicel and Cable & Wireless networks here. So this one is for you guys. Flytimes, is a new service which was announced at Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas today will be launched on January 21. So what is it? It will enable your iPhone or other cellular/wifi enabled device to play internet radio. Flytunes will be released as a free services supported by Google adsense type ads.

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HYPE TV launches a gamers TV show -The HQ

Jamaica- HYPE! TV which was the Caribbean’s first 24 hr music driven entertainment channel launched a gamers show called The HQ. The Cable TV station brands The HQ as a “video game review programme that is presented with stunning visuals, excellent scripted material and content centered around video gaming and related topics. ”

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US$100 to crack the iPhone in Jamaica

Jamaica- Yep, I had an encounter with a guy today in a store where I was buying my Blackberry Curve, yes I finally gave in to join the fast growing Kingston Chapter of the Crackberry Club. This dude told me that yeah he cracks the iPHone to be used on the GSM network here for US$100 per phone. Why so much, well, he said they literally cried over it trying to figure stuff out and had to totally rewrite a bunch of code to get everything on it to work here in Jamaica. I asked him so  does EVERYTHING on it work? He said, yes as long as  they don’t do certain things and they show their customers how to navigate and fully use their freshly cracked iPhone.

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IPTV, not the future for traditional Caribbean media

by David Mullings

Caribbean Media Conference (Jamaica)- There is no doubt that IPTV is going to be a force on the worldwide stage and there will undoubtedly be success stories, but I believe that the CURRENT state of traditional Caribbean media does not lend itself to successful IPTV ventures carrying channels outside the Caribbean.

I was a panelist on the first day of the Caribbean Media Conference and Expo, the panel on ‘cutting edge’ technology and opportunities for Caribbean media and entertainment. Some valid statements were made but one question alone shed light on what I have been saying all along. “Your plan is to stream a channel like TVJ into the USA via the internet and a set-top box but these Caribbean channels are predominantly filled with US content that is ONLY licensed to be shown on terrestrial television in that specific island. How will you deal with that?” The response was simple: “We have geo-blocking in place that will prevent that unlicensed content from airing”, to which the questioner responded “That’s a lot of blocking.”

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Verizon to unleash the mobile PRETTY

USA-Verizon, the American telecom is about to unleash the pretty on the US mobile phone industry with phone blitz in a couple of weeks. Engadget, the most popular technology blog in the US, got the scoop. Have a look at the phones, they are pretty aren’t they, but listen to what they come loaded with.The new phones are thnew Samsung Juke, BlackBerry Pearl, LG Venus and LG Voyager all due for simultaneous release on the market. On the far left is the “Juke,” Verizon’s name for that U470 which will come with 2GB of storage, A2DP Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Next is the “new variety” Pearl rumored since August, with a 2 megapixel camera, A2DP and a 3.5mm audio jack. Beside that is the dual screen “Venus” slider, also known as the LG VX8800. The phone has a miniSD expansion, A2DP, a 2 megapixel camera and some interesting touchscreen capabilities, including vibration feedback. Then finally we have the granddaddy of them all on the far right, the LG Voyager, also known as the VX10000. The phone sports a large external touchscreen, along with a lateral-clamshell form factor that opens up into a QWERTY keyboard and another well-sized screen, both screens are QVGA. Verizon is bragging of a full HTML browser, along with the expected microSD expansion, 2 megapixel camera, A2DP and some built-in stereo speakers.

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Caribbean traffic vs. traffic to Caribbean-content websites

by David Mulings

One of our advisors is a former VP of Sales at the largest Hispanic online ad network, helping to secure deals with major companies like Reebok (He is Bajan btw). He has always cautioned us about how we define our traffic for potential advertisers and spon-sors.

We at Realvibez.com define ‘Caribbean traffic’ as traffic from the Caribbean region, because that is how our advertisers define it and how we identify our target markets. Our video ads do not show outside of North America, because the advertisers don’t want them shown outside that region - they don’t see it as ‘Caribbean traffic’, they see North American traffic to a Caribbean-content site. Our banner ads are usually the same but since we have no Caribbean-focused advertisers at this time, we have turned off geo-targeting and do not charge our US advertisers for their impressions served outside the assigned region. Read more

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