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?
The U.S. economy has likely been in recession for a year, and tech companies have been bracing for a big slowdown in growth. But the fact is that revenues for most Internet-based companies haven’t dropped yet. Amazon, in fact, was able to issue its annual “best year ever” press release the day after Christmas.
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I read a lot of blogs and many of them every single day. One of my must read blogs is Seth Godin, thought provoking marketing guru and who’s books Tribes, The Dip, Meatball Sundae, Small is the New Big, All Marketers are Liars,Purple Cow, Unleashing the Idea Virus, Permission Marketing I’ve read and never lent. Yeah he’s that good.
I’d like to thank you all my readers, all 10,000 of you, who visit and read my blog monthly, who join the conversation by leaving your comments, those of you who send me emails, keep me informed via press releases, those of you who refer me to friends and colleagues, those of you who invite me to events and workshops, thanks to my guest bloggers especially David Mullings of RealVibez Media - to all of you, thanks for making it a fantastic 2008 for SiliconCaribe.com and I know 2009 will be even greater. Enjoy the holidays and we’ll start our conversation again on Monday, December 29th, 2008.
Viral marketing is an idea that spreads–and an idea that while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause. Two kinds of viral marketing: The original classic sort in which the marketing is the product and which a self-amplifying cycle occurs. Hotmail, for example, or YouTube. The more people use them, the more people see them. The more people see them, the more people use them. The product or service must be something that improves once more people use it. More
Novatel Wireless last week announced it will release the MiFi, a portable wireless router that will deliver wireless 3G data network access to multiple users in a small area. Much the same size as a credit card, the sleek looking MiFi will let users select access to EVDO or HSPA high speed data networks.
This “cloud” of high-speed Internet connectivity that MiFi offers can be shared not only between users, but between devices such as laptops, cameras, gaming devices and multimedia players. Perfect for carpooling and relieving boredom in the back seat during that long road trip with kids - think Nintendo DS or Sony PSP - the MiFi will support up to five users simultaneously. More
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It’s official. We’re in a recession. Recessions naturally inject fear and panic, which is only heightened by every discussion of market losses, layoffs, bailouts, and somber predictions. We’re only human after all; of course everything affects us personally and emotionally.
Fear is not a catalyst for productivity however. With valuable advice pouring in from concerned and sympathetic entrepreneurs and proven leaders, businesses are indeed responding quickly to make decisions that equate to a secure and prosperous future—hopefully. This constructive advice has helped businesses focus and weigh difficult decisions sooner than they might have without it. More
Aislecom, a locally owned company in St George’s, Grenada has been granted its telecom license and is set to launch its 3G wireless network. This will be the first in the Eastern Caribbean. The company said that when the network and it’s services go live “mobile customers will experience a suite of advanced mobile applications that are not being offered by the two existing providers.”
With local banks and cellular providers considering launching mobile banking (m-banking) services, Government has secured assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to assess its feasibility for Jamaica and recommend necessary legislation.
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He runs the number one dating site online at this time. His name is Markus Frind and his site is plentyoffish.com. He’s the dude that runs a site that netted him US$10 over the past year and outsmarts better looking sites such as match.com and eharmony.com to grab the lion’s share of the online dating market. The Canada-based dating site that boasts over 900,000 active daily members.
Sockandawe.com
is the online game that’s a result of that shoe throwing incident, when PResident of the United States George Bush was at a press conference in Iraq had to dodge a size 10 brown shoe from a really pissed off journalist. Todat over 46million “shoes” has hit Bush in the face, ohh yeah this online game went viral and lots of people worldwide have joined in the “fun”. It is not yet a week since the incident. Have a look and tell me what you think.
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