Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 14th, 2009
Will Caribbean social networks become irrelevant as more Caribbean people continue to flock to Facebook to date, congregate and market their businesses ? There are now over 20 Caribbean-centric social sites and networks…which ones will grow, make money and be still relevant in a year’s time and which ones will fade to black?
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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
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 6th, 2009
Last year was the year of the Olympics and the Jamaican Usain Bolt snagging the title of the World’s Fastest man. It was also the year of forex trading fever in Jamaica and the rise and fall of traders and their club members. It was a year full of new ideas being launched online and others fading to black with no marketplace support. We’ve had some great questions, insights and debates here on SiliconCaribe.com and we now present to you our list of the most heavily read and commented of our blog posts for 2008. There are in no particular order and they are across a range of topics. Discover, remember, enjoy!
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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?
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on December 9th, 2008
Seth Godin, who’s latest book Tribes, I am still reading wrote a provocative blog post today, so I had to share. It starts now. Due to the extraordinary explosion in video, blogs, news feeds and social network postings, the internet is dangerously close to running out of room. Nothing can grow forever, and exponential growth is always short lived. We’re running out of disk space, so if you have something left to say, better hurry. Once it’s full, it’s full.
Of course, the decentralized nature of the net means that it will never be physically full. As long as we can keep making hard drives, we won’t run out of space to store those inane videos of your Aunt Sally. What is full is our attention. More
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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
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on November 14th, 2008
Iriecity.com is yet another social network born from the Jamaican culture. I like the sizzle that they seek to sell though…here’s their homepage pitch “ Irie can be described as being at total peace with your current state of being. The way you feel when you have no worries.
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