Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 7th, 2009
Caribbean News. Read All ABout it. Online
First there were the pioneers Cananews.com, CaribbeanNetNews.com and CaribWorldNews.com, then came CaribDaily.com, CaribbeanAxis.com,Caribbeandailynews.com and CaribNewsNetwork.com-it seems aggregating Caribbean news for Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora audience online just got pretty sexy.
Without question there is a need to get a snapshot of what is happening in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora on a daily and weekly basis as who has the time to visit the dozens of individual newspaper,radio and television sites to get all that? This is why in a world where the information avalanche happens daily, smart aggregation is sweet and in this case sweet for the Global Caribbean audience online. So the question is, are all of these sites the same. Quick answer, nope! Let’s have a look.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us were discussing as ot what were teh chief reasons for many Caribbean startups in the Tech/Internet/Mobile space startup then stagnate.
The group agreed on these top 3:
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 13th, 2009
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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Posted by Ingrid Riley on September 21st, 2007
Barbados- Without question the time is now for the Caribbean and Latin American region to experience the dot come boom already experienced by the United States. Right now, Caribbean startups are all about creating a regional spin on phenomenally successful American and European internet brands ad hope to be just as profitable and successful in reputation as they are. One of hue internet brands is Digg.com “a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.”
Digg.com started as a place where users share, find news, videos, reviews, podcacts on all things technology and science but have since evolved to have a greater range of news topics such as Business, Entertainment, Gaming Sports and Offbeat news. The site has over 20 million unique visitors and a multimillion dollar valuation to match.
Enter CaribScoop.com (Jamaica), caribdaily.com,onspotreport.com (Jamaica) and now herrd.com ( Barbados), fresh faced Caribbean startups mapping the global online trend of news via social networking. Gunning to be the number one in the region, like Digg.com is now globally.
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