Archives for “Social Media”

Hip Hop’s Use of Twitter

The hip hop community is one that quickly embraces new social media technology. Artists started using Ustream and Twitter long before the average person picked ...


Earlier this year, Google landed a “landmark” deal with Global Cricket Ventures, the licensing partner to the Indian Premier League (IPL), which would give them ...


Do you still need a reason to come up with a social media strategy? New data shows an important shift in web traffic patterns. Remember last ...


Facebook hits 100 million mobile users - puts chat on all IM clients  11.02.2010 Social-networking player Facebook is now being used by more than 100 ...


[caption id="attachment_2538" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Blogoria in 2010"][/caption] Blogoria.com, launched by a New York-based Jamaican tech entrepreneur could have been easily labelled the facebook for bloggers. It ...


Less than two weeks ago, Jamaica Tourist Board( JTB) announced that it'll be paying attention to more social media. Duh, they are about a year ...


Today’s Bahamian internet ‘social’ landscape is pretty barren after starting off with quite a bang in the early, heady days of the Internet’s discovery in ...


This is a fill in the blank puzzle game with a twist. It is an educational game that challenges and informs players about Jamaican culture, ...


This was published in Chat, a weekly tabloid from the Jamaica Observer. Why it didn't make the business pages in mainstream publications is beyond me. ...


The mission is to save Jamaican Drivers $$$ and to keep Jamaica driving. CheapestGas jamaica launched a soft social media promotion on Facebook and Twitter ...


I needed a mini vacation badly, to disconnect from blogs, twitter, facebook, clients, business, my cell phone my laptop, from TV - the whole nine ...


Even if you personally consider Twitter an annoying pop culture trend, you can't argue against its power to reach thousands of people in seconds, for ...


Dale-Kurt shares his views on social media marketing used by commercial brands in Jamaica. Those that got it right and those who did not. Check ...


I recently read an insightful article in AdAge about global companies that face a Twitter squatter problem. One such company is Hyundai, which does not ...


Social Media and all its multiple touch points (Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, social networks,share buttons and f=Forums) scares some Jamaican companies. They are afraid to put ...


We found this list on venturebeat.com and added our Caribbean information to it for our global Caribbean audience.They had 25 social media sites. We added ...


During the games I kept visiting usainbolt.com to see how quickly they updated his site, in addition to watching his Twitter updates(which I do not ...


And if you want to use some of these stats for your own research and couldn't write fast enough, here is a complete list of ...


With over 6 million monthly users coupled with the swell of an ecosytem to support and spread it further, the one question that lingers even ...


The month of June was quite busy for me - lots of traveling on the road around Jamaica, resulting in tired evenings where I did ...


The day after we published a post Hypedates.com in the dot com dead pool, its owner has since sent us some information. Here is his ...


Michael Jackson most popular person on Facebook. According to a CNN LONDON, England report. It said "Michael Jackson has officially become the most popular person ...


[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 ...


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 ...