Posted by Ingrid Riley on August 30th, 2009
Get your week started right. Catchup with what was popular this past week. Check it out.
1. Whoaa!! Jamaican Computer Hacker in police custody
http://www.siliconcaribe.com/2009/08/27/whoaa-jamaican-computer-hacker-in-police-custody/
2.PUKSHOP.COM-World’s first integrated digital Caribbean music, video download and jukebox store ?
http://www.siliconcaribe.com/2009/08/17/pukshopcom-world%E2%80%99s-first-integrated-digital-caribbean-music-video-download-and-jukebox-store/
3. Think Social Media is a Fad? Think Again.
http://www.siliconcaribe.com/2009/08/18/think-social-media-is-a-fad-think-again/
4. LIME at the centre of Mobile Banking Launch in Eastern Caribbean
http://www.siliconcaribe.com/2009/08/06/lime-at-the-centre-of-mobile-banking-launch-in-eastern-caribbean/
Popularity: 1% [?]
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.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on April 22nd, 2009
I’m in the middle of creating an online publicity campaign for a client and found three free Caribbean-focused press release submission websites – caribpr.com which was the first PR wire of the Caribbean which is based in New York, caribbeanpressreleases.com which is out of Barbados and then we have Jamaica-based jamaicapressrelease.com and a sweet list of 50 free press release submission websites.
Now not all press release submission websites are created equal. Most tends to simply allow you to upload the text and make your release available to the readers who come to the site. Other sites are what I call fully loaded- meaning you can submit a press release with live links back to a desired website; they allow photos,videos and audio; their site has rss feeds; is syndicated to mainstream journalists; has relationships with a network of influential bloggers;is regularly picked up by major search engines such as Google and Yahoo and more; and some are targeted to specific industries such as technology or business or travel. So it means seeking to find what matches your online publicity needs.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 5th, 2009
We first wrote about the Barbados-based company Herrd.com – (the Caribbean News Social Network where you can share, discover, bookmark, and promote Caribbean stuff that’s important to you) when they were weeks old. The fresh-faced Caribbean startup which launched in July 2007 was mapping the global online trend of news via social networking, gunning to be the number one in the region, like the America-based Digg.com is now globally. They were on a sweet growth path until recently. We reported in November last year that we got a suspected malware site warning every time we surfed on over there. Nowadays, that picture you see with this blog post is what we’ve been getting. Have they hit the dotcom dead pool or are they regrouping?
Popularity: 1% [?]
