Posts Tagged ‘Jamaican’

What di a*s! more Trinidadians on Facebook than Jamaicans ?!

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 Facebook exploded the Fashion Brand POSH in the Jamaican Market
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Who wants to be Mayor on Foursquare?

Who wants to be Mayor? on Foursquare that is. I’m really not surprised that Foursquare is taking off fast here in Jamaica, the land of  100% mobile penetration. Who doesn’t like clicking “check in” on their smart phones as they mosey on into their favourite places to drink, eat or when they’d arrive at their favourite club. It’s frankly addictive. I went to check on what’s been happening on Foursquare and got the above- New Crowned Mayors of Kingston,Jamaica where I’m located and also Where have some of my Foursquare friends recently checked in. I’m currently Mayor of Susie’s Bakery and Coffee Bar. I’m gunning for East Japanese next. And you?

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FourSquare 101 for Jamaican/Caribbean brands

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8 Startup Pitches at our Kingston Beta Tech Event Next Thursday

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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Got the Itch to Pitch ? The Next Kingston Beta is April 29th, 2010

…Yes it’s nearing that time again, where all of the entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives  in the Jamaican and Caribbean tech industry meet to network, find out what’s new and of course listen to the startup pitches during the event’s popular PITCH THIS! segment. Kingston Beta, Jamaica’s Premier Technology Event is on Thursday April 29th, 6:30pm at the Spanish Court Hotel.

We have expanded our very popular PITCH THIS segment and haves paces for 4 more startups regardless of where you are in the world…we”ll video skype you to our audience as we have done. So if you are a Jamaican/Caribbean based, led startup send us your details for consideration to me at ingrid @ connectimass.com.

Keep track of what’s happening- Join the community on Facebook.com/KingstonBeta. We have the latest videos and photos from the last event as well as great startup information. You can also follow us on twitter.com/KingstonBeta. Kingston Beta is an event spawned by SiliconCaribe and ConnectiMass. It has sponsors like Jamaica National on board for the year with more coming on soon.

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The Market has determined it

Those are the five words I’ve been hearing alot these past two weeks as I attend back to back meetings with marketing executives and CEOs of Jamaican companies across industries such as tourism, food and beverage and export. They are now ready to change the way they develop products, deliver services and market them- because the market has determined it.

I like the fact that they have seen the light and there is a desire to change and with speed and even better, prepared to take action that clearly demonstrates their courage too. While some may say that it’s better late than never,  I’ve always believed that insight and pre emptive strikes can detemine market leaders vs companies who are merely industry fodder. It is when you choose to acknowledge and act that will determine a company’s position in the marketplace.

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Bottom Feeder, Game Changer- Which one are you?

I remember when I had just started to grow my then web development company Dutchpot Interactive from 2003-2006. We enjoyed brisk business primarily because of our customer service, design talents and our keen understanding of the business context of why companies must be online. In house at our Seymour Park digs we had a team of 7 people. We won new business, we won retainers with corporate companies the whole nine yards.

Then things changed.

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I don’t think you’ll see anything big in 2010 for Jamaica online.

I don’t think you’ll see anything big in 2010 for Jamaica online. Not being negative but just realistic. For anything big online, it’s going to cost some cash to get it built and marketed. That kind of money exists with the Internet Ignorant and while they are slowly gaining confidence even with the evidence as blatant as Facebook’s 200,000+ Jamaicans (in Jamaica) and climbing they still choose to throw money at the old mediums..playing it safe!

This was the last email in the discussion I saw this morning, and it came from a colleague of mine as part of an email discussion thread started last night between a bunch of us Jamaican-based technology entrepreneurs. It started with the list of Alexa.com’s top11 Jamaican sites curated and published by another colleague.

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Why I do not need Cable TV again. Well sort of…

I’ve timeshifted and I’m spoilt for choice. And the fact is, there are ten of thousands of us in Jamaica, millions in the Caribbean and tens of millions around the world who are also in this place. The place where having choice is standard and your life just doesn’t facilitate a lengthy sit down on someone else’s sayso.

Seriously, when was the last time you sat and watch a TV show…outside of TrueBlood, Bill Maher, maybe Ugly Betty and possibly the video music awards shows. And if you missed an episode for some reason, I am 98% sure you can name two websites ( eztv.it and eztv.org yeah I said it!) where you can either watch it or download it for free or a very small fee and at your own damn convenience. And dare I mention the iPhone and Apple TV users. Then of course when HULU.com gets its American head out of its American ass, then we in the Caribbean plus others around the world will be able to jump in and watch our favourite America programming.

And I’m going to ask you again, when was the last time you sat and watch the news, it’s typically slightly depressing yes but are you like me who tends to get the news pushed to you on Facebook or twitter or by text message. In fact there are times the news breaks right there on Facebook or Twitter while mainstream TV, radio and oh my newspapers play catchup.

But ok,ok so EVERYONE doesn’t have high speed internet and a computer, but alot of people do and here in Jamaica and the Caribbean – if Digicel, Flow, Claro, LIME and a few smart computer resellers have their way- alot more of us will be watching our favourite shows, when we want, how often we want online without the bother of ads or worrying over whether Jamaican Cable operators will bring back HBO or Cinemax. In fact, they can keep em. Just continue to give me highspeed Internet at a decent price and I’ll make Cable TV totally irrelevant in my life. In fact. Not to self: I am so proud of you Ingrid, it’s been 4 months without boring cable on your gorgeous flat screen TV.

So have you time shifted or are you still the old school couch potato, a slave to a Cable TV schedule?


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Usain Bolt Number 1 on Yahoo Search…then nuh muss

Usain Bolt Number 1 on Yahoo Search too

Usain Bolt Number 1 on Yahoo Search too

Everybody loves a winner and with his two World Records and two World Championship medals, on the last two days on his 22nd birthday, you bet everyone’s going to want to know…a who him, who the hell is Usain Bolt, tell me everything. He’s been the number one trending topic on Twitter and has more than guadrupled his number of followers and of course it would follow that he’d be number on the searches too. To di World indeed.

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Jamaicabos.com – Online networking for Jamaican businesses

I’m a huge believer in networking both within your own industry and across many others. So when I got this in my inbox, thanks to my business partner Sandor Panton, I had to pass it on too. You can never network too much is my belief.

Jamaica Trade and Invest, in keeping with our commitment to stimulate the trade and business environment is pleased to introduce the Jamaica Business Opportunity Service- ‘JBOS’ for ease of reference- a highly interactive web-based service that is dedicated to connecting buyers and sellers online.

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When you’re selling 100% Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee..it deserves a better website

wallenfordblue.com

wallenfordblue.com

I saw the Google ad and I clicked. When I landed on the site’s homepage, I was stunned. The Jamaican-based coffee company Wallenfordblue dropped me off a cliff with what is in essence an awful site. Come on wallenfordblue.com, I just think if you’re selling a premium product then your website oughta reflect that. It irks me even more since this is the brand I often buy to take to friends in the United States, so if they went to replenish their coffee supplies in between my visits they’d surely be scared off by this site.

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