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Hip Hop’s Use of Twitter

The hip hop community is one that quickly embraces new social media technology. Artists started using Ustream and Twitter long before the average person picked ...


Less than two weeks ago, Jamaica Tourist Board( JTB) announced that it'll be paying attention to more social media. Duh, they are about a year ...


The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) two years ago joined the throng of marketers tapping social networking sites as a way to drum up business when ...


The mission is to save Jamaican Drivers $$$ and to keep Jamaica driving. CheapestGas jamaica launched a soft social media promotion on Facebook and Twitter ...


Seth Godin, who has written 12 bestsellers that have been translated into 33 languages, is an in demand global speaker, digital age trend watcher and ...


Even if you personally consider Twitter an annoying pop culture trend, you can't argue against its power to reach thousands of people in seconds, for ...


I recently read an insightful article in AdAge about global companies that face a Twitter squatter problem. One such company is Hyundai, which does not ...


(New to Me) I can't remember where I saw Jamdowndigital but it caught my eye. I've been so tired of seeing music and entertainment sites ...


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 ...


This is the panel from Twittercon called "Growing Your Brand on Twitter: Strategies and Tactics from the Trenches." The members of the panel represented Comcast, ...


During the games I kept visiting usainbolt.com to see how quickly they updated his site, in addition to watching his Twitter updates(which I do not ...


[caption id="attachment_2009" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Usain Bolt Number 1 on Yahoo Search too"][/caption]Everybody loves a winner and with his two World Records and two World Championship ...


[caption id="attachment_1993" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Usain Bolt on Twitter"][/caption] Hours after Usain Bolt obliterated his own Olympic and world record of 9.69 sec and took it to ...


I saw this article on the New York times called, Get Our Tech News Any Way You Want It by Vindu Goel. They acknowledged that ...


[caption id="attachment_1782" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="jamaica-gleaner.com"][/caption] The Jamaica-based Gleaner Company Ltd the oldest operating newspaper in the Caribbean, held its Annual General Meeting last week and reported ...


Does the fact that you can create a Fan Page, a group for your company, cafe or event, especially on social media sites like Facebook ...


[caption id="attachment_1728" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="SusiesBakery.com"][/caption]Some businesses are asking what's the use in setting up a Website when everybody's on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter? Why not ...


First there was CaribTweet.com now their Folkstown.com. The site CaribTweet.com, Twitter for Caribbean small talk, launched just in January this year while Folkstown-Exploring Caribbean Conversations, ...


I went to Tweet awhile ago and ahmm this is what I saw instead. This is what Twitter.com looked like at midday today.


Twitter has been getting some serious love in the mainstream press lately and continues to grow at an amazing rate, but, I came across an ...


Twittermania has gripped the world and the Caribbean and Jamaica are no different. Last week I wrote a post on the Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers, ...


With Twittermania in full swing globally, I wanted to see just how much Twitter has taken hold in the Caribbean. So I used wefollow.com, which ...


MyLife.com cool concept

MyLife.com is the fourth larget social network in terms of monthly unique visitors according to ClickZ.com. It's new to me, so I had to share ...


Dancehall.Mobi special update - Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. It allows users to send and read other users’ ...


I am sure the SC readers are well aware of the microblogging service known as Twitter. The hype has grown tremendously since I first signed ...