Caribbean Internet Usages Numbers
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If you haven’t been paying attention billionaire Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) is suing Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Staples, OfficeMax, Office Depot, and YouTube over patent infringements. “A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.”, Wikipedia.
It is perhaps one of the biggest patent lawsuits to date, and it is one of many patent lawsuits filed since the start of the year. Paul Allen’s company Interval Licensing has hundreds of patents and has chosen four (4) out of its arsenal to use in the suit. One of the patents mentioned in the suit is the analyzing of a user’s behaviour/action (e.g. search) to suggest a list of related content. Doesn’t this sound like a lot of websites you use?
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So in writing the article Find out how many Jamaicans are on Facebook in 7 quick steps, I decided to check on our Trinidadian neighbours and found out that as of today, there are more Trinidadians on Facebook – 364,960 than Jamaicans – 363,380. If you want to know how about other Caribbean countries or any country. Read this post.
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How many Jamaicans are on Facebook now? It’s like THE question to be asking and answering these past few weeks. So I decided to write a how to article that anyone can refer to and pass on to colleagues and friends. Here’s how to find out how many Jamaicans are on Facebook.
1. Login to Facebook as usual and go to the Home Page. Not your Profile Page.
2. On the Home Page, on the left hand in the side bar, from the top you will see your picture and beneath that in the first block of information you’ll see News Feed, Messages, Events, Friends etc. In the Second Block of information you will see Photos, Ads and Pages etc. Click on Ads and Pages. If you do not see Ads and Pages for some reason, don’t worry, use the Search box and type in Ads, Facebook Ads, Ads Manager.
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Yesterday I was interviewed by Yvonne Nicholson, Business Communications Consultant with ROCommunications Jamaica and Jamaica Observer columnist on Why businesses fear social media. Her column was published today in the Jamaica Observer and I was quoted a couple of times. You can read the article here “Why businesses fear social media”.
It reminded me also that I had written a similar blog post on this same issue November last year “The Number 1 reason Jamaican companies are scared of Social Media”. So I decided to update it, add a case study I usally talk about in my workshops and repost it below:
Social Media and all its multiple touch points (Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, social networks,share buttons and Forums) scares some Jamaican companies and a few Caribbean ones too. They are afraid to put their company, its products and services up to public scrutiny. “What do we do when we get negative comments ?” This is the most popular response I’ve heard over the last year from some company executives as they’ve assumed that is all they will happen when they “put themselves out there”. The two other typical responses have been “Why do we have to be so directly connected to people online ? ” , and “Ok ok so if we are really going to place ourselves out there who is going to manage it ?”
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Marc Canter
We made the announcement on May 19th on the event blog for Kingston Beta. The headline read Marc Canter, Founder of Macromedia, creator of FLASH Media Player will speak at the ConnectiMass technology event Kingston Beta in June. The Jamaican and Caribbean tech and business community has been a buzz ever since.
And yes he will be speaking their via Skype Video/Ustream next week Thursday June 24th, 2010 to the Jamaica’s Kingston Beta community at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston.
Since we became Facebook friends, I took the opportunity to get a pre-event interview with him. So I sent him some questions and he answered them in a candid and direct way. Here’s the interview:
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Social networks not only give companies broader access to new customers, they do it at unprecedented lower costs, according to Clara Shih, author of “The Facebook Era.” In a speech here Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Expo, Shih explained that she refers to the Facebook Era because the company dominates the social networking market with more than 400 million users.
“People spend over 20 billion minutes a day on Facebook — you have to be there,” Shih said. But it’s the broader social network movement, including Twitter, LinkedIn and a growing number of social networks in other countries that represent “a cultural movement” and a “new psychology,” she added.
Before Facebook, companies would have a hard — or at least expensive — time tailoring their marketing to the best projects. But Shih said Facebook profiles are a marketer’s dream because users reveal so much about their interests, such as favorite sports, hobbies and product preferences.
“When we moved from in-person meetings, to phone calls to Facebook, each time the cost of that communication goes down and our network grows,” she said. More
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And I’ll prove that headline is just a single snapshot courtesy of Gerd Leonard, Media Futurist.
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It’s something you may have heard me tweet about, write about or talk about in the last few months- that this year is the tipping point for the Internet in Jamaica and the Caribbean. You can see the activity online – fresh blogs, new sites, niche social networks, more people and brands on Facebook, on Twitter, companies spending on Google Ads and Facebook ads. For those of us with service agencies, you can tell via the increased number of phone calls and emails. The marketing bubbling is real, very palpable.
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With about half of Facebook’s 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web’s most popular destinations
Now Facebook is intensifying its efforts to expand its empire beyond its Web site; the company wants to turn scores of sites across the Internet into satellites where users will be able to interact with their Facebook friends.
Details of Facebook’s plans — which involve a variation on its “Share” button, already prevalent on many sites — are expected to be introduced by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, on Wednesday during its conference here for third-party developers. But even before Facebook makes its plans public, its aim to become a social networking force across the Web is facing competition. More
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