KINGSTONPO.COM- SOCIAL NETWORK FOR DANCEHALL/REGGAE MUSIC LOVERS
May 15, 2008
The Autolog- Social Network For Car Enthusiasts
May 12, 2008
TheAutoLog is a social network for car enthusiasts focused on each user’s car. Ohh I can hear members of wheelsjamaica.com and trinituner.com salivating over this, if they haven’t already signed up. Read more
GODTUBE GETS US$30 IN FUNDING. JESUS SAVES!
May 6, 2008
Case Study: Business Networking on Facebook
April 16, 2008
It is no secret that people are using Facebook for business networking and I wanted to share my own success stories and exactly what I did. 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
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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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.
