Posted by simbethel on January 25th, 2010
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 the region.
Back in the late 90s, and the early 2000’s we had many vibrant Bahamas centric sites like the Bahamas.com internet forum, Bahamanet.com, BahamiansOnline.com, Bahamas-mon.com Forums, Oii.net (Abaco Forum), Bahamascope.net, Bahamateens.net/com, Freeportteens.com and Briland.com that over time many have fallen by the wayside as the Bahamian and Visitors to the Bahamas have been pulled away to more global sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, hi5.com, blackplanet.com and tagged.com.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Posted by suzette gardner on June 9th, 2009
SusiesBakery.com
Some businesses are asking what’s the use in setting up a Website when everybody’s on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter? Why not just set up a Facebook or MySpace page and use that as a business Web address? After all, on any given day there are up to 110 million people on either Facebook or MySpace building trustworthy relationships–why not stay there instead of trying to lure them to your own Website? While it seems as if these folks are just creating customer profiles and waiting for smart marketers to present products and services which can be peddled in those networks outfitted with the necessary e-commerce and communication tools, taking this position is like saying its wiser to live in a hot new nightclub than to get your own home.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 4th, 2009
I’m Jamaican and am always searching for things Jamaican and Caribbean on the social networks that I’m a member of. So Facebook is no different. One of those searches yielded a link to a Fan Page branded simply Jamaica under the travel category. It has 35,045 fans from across the world, this, despite that the creator of the Fan Page has never advertised it (except to his circle of Facebook friends) and has not updated it since August last year…coincidentally, the month of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, when Jamaica’s sprint factory credentials yielded an amazing show. This has not stopped the fans from joining, continuously updating the Page with their favourite pictures, shout outs and instant reviews on where they’ve visited, how much they loved it and why. Now this is powerful stuff and I let me share with you why.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Posted by simone harris on April 25th, 2009
Despite the current economic crisis, and the resulting chaos in the music industry, President of Myspace Music, Courtney Holt remains “cautiously optimistic” that they will remain successful in building an “innovative online business.”
In a recent interview, Holt told Billboard Mag that since he accepted the presidency at Myspace Music, they have:
- made tweaks to Myspace Music’s search engine
- added new playlist features
- improved the music player
These tweaks have contributed to:
- 40% spike in search engine traffic
- the creation of 105 million active playlists by Myspace Music users
- more than 5.3 billion average aggregate minutes spent listening to music in January alone
- new advertising partnerships with companies like, Toyota, Visa, McDonalds, Kmart and Adidas
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 13th, 2009
A great Techcrunch post I found this morning.Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience are out. The first thing we checked? How the major social networks are doing.
Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2008, is still playing catch up to MySpace in the U.S. They have 54.5 million monthly unique visitors, says Comscore, compared to nearly 76 million for MySpace. But Facebook’s growth rate in the U.S. averaged 3.8% per month over the last twelve months. MySpace’s U.S. growth rate is 0.8% per month. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, but unless things change a lot, Facebook will overtake MySpace to become the largest social network in the U.S. in…2010. More
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on December 8th, 2008
Forget losing your job, apparently your MySpace or Facebook profile and photos can now cause you to lose your degree. In what may be one of the most frightening rulings regarding social networks and privacy to date, a federal judge has ruled against a former student of Millersville University of Pennsylvania who was denied her college degree because of an unseemly online photo and its accompanying caption found on her social network profile.
The Case of “Drunken Pirate,” Stacy Snyder. The woman, Stacy Snyder, sued Millersville in 2007. Snyder was student-teaching at a high school, but had received poor evaluations regarding her professionalism in the classroom. Before her semester-long teaching assignment was up, she was barred from campus. However, it was not the negative reviews that caused her to be barred nor were they responsible for the loss of her degree. It was a MySpace photo. More
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on November 22nd, 2008
I don’t know about you but I have been observing a significant shift in how people communicate, professionally as well as socially and privately. While only 7-10 years ago, most of the work was done on the phone (I recall living in .com boom-town numero uno, San Francisco, and using up all my 2000 AT&T minutes every single month!), eMail soon became big with everyone, and now eMail is still pretty much the prime vehicle of business communications – thus the rise of blackberry mania. Use of the phone declined heavily as a result.
Now, it seems that… well, eMail is for old people. About 18 months ago, the use of ‘social’ business platforms such as LinkedIn became more prevalent, and all of a sudden people started to have ‘professional’ conversations on LinkedIn, Ryze (remember??), Xing, and then, soon, Facebook, Myspace, and now… Twitter, Skype and GTalk. Now, for me, it has already become the No. 1 method of how people reach out to me: rather than calling (ouch) or even emailing (ehem), people ping me via my various networks – and I think this will increase drastically because it provides a build-in filter as you have to be in my network to ping me via the Network. More
Popularity: 13% [?]
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 the region.
