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Who owns the code? Beware copyright pitfalls
Read full article from www.computerworld.com
Like everyone else in the ICT industry who find it of interest, the case of Paymaster Vs Grace Kennedy was interesting to follow when I did come across a headline in the papers.
But being a Innovator and quite familiar with how the system [...]

While some Negroes are busy finding new ways to hold each other back here. Productive minds in the free market are busy at work.

The $25 Million Demo. Yext Scores A Big Round From IVP After TechCrunch50 Debut.
“The minute he stepped off the stage, Lerman was inundated with emails and business cards from seemingly every venture capitalist and M&A officer in the room. He tried to ignore them and soak in the rest of the conference, but some of [...]

ONLY IN AMERICA

Sadly most locals involved in business that I have met here, cannot articulate such ideas.

How Twitter Got A $1 Billion Valuation
“So far, Twitter has no revenue-generating products.” By businessinsider.com

Mediazoneja.com has 38,658 Registered Members

Not bad for a young site. They also boast 3,610 users having visited their site in the past 24 hours. Stats are dated from June 8 9:15 PM, 2009.
It should be noted that alexa.com has mediazoneja.com ranked as the # 18 site right behind Twitter.com.
What is crazy is how alexa.com ranks traffic. So though mediazoneja.com [...]

Website emerged from the Jamaican Diaspora Future Leaders Conference 2009. Coincidence or Copycat?

Though I saw the Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade at Christopher’s and spoke briefly about the event. I really had no intentions of going, and for clearly good reasons.
I simple never got the feeling that there would be any ground breaking or real creative forces present at such [...]

Social Media Revolution

Thanks Bee, I knew some day I would find informative stuff over there. Not often though.
The USA market is not like developing countries. Social media may not make much of a impact in terms of products and services for the consumers in Jamaica today or the near future. None the less [...]

Taking Risks In Business

It is one thing to launch a online newspaper/blog and in less than 12 months attain the number one traffic in respect to being the top news blog in Jamaica without the aid of a full time professional Proof Reader and or Editor.

Internet companies & the difficulty of monetization

While reading an article from The Wall Street Journal titled “The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)” By James Altucher. I could not help but write a note on it.
Funny how the author in a respected publications stated “From 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day I can spend on the Internet and [...]

Has Claro really made an impression in the Jamaica Telecom market?

3G this 3G that, all one can hear and see on radio, TV, and print is this hype about Claro 3G network. In fact many of my young friends are saying “Oh not another Claro commercial”. Some are even saying, “Every other commercial on TV is either Claro or a Digicel” and that they are [...]

Is Facebook under reporting the people in its Jamaica network?

“There are 61,061 people in the Jamaica network”.
Well unless I am not reading the above information correctly, then as far as Facebook is concerned, its Jamaica network grew by 3,568 since the last time I checked it

Why Calabar lost to Kingston College?

(1) Peak too early, ran too many development meets.
(2) No runners in the finals of 5,000m race. No top runner in 1,500m finals. No distance program. One distance runner cannot be a distance program.
(3) Injured quarter-milers. Ramone McKenzie ran a 200m race in a 400mx400m relay final and felt it at the last 200m. He [...]

A little over 57,000 Facebook profiles exist within the Jamaica Facebook network

For the marketing peeps out there who just do not appear to have a clue to the net, Facebook is not all that with respect to being a user base for Jamaicans. In fact, there are 57,493 people in the Jamaica network on Facebook as of today.
The ad platform, in [...]

Nonsense from Chris Williams of National Commercial Bank (NCB) Capital Markets

While reading the Sunday edition of an online Jamaica newspaper, ‘The Jamaica Observer’, I came across an interesting headline and article: ‘Chris Williams: Region not ready for private equity funds’.
Statements that caught my attention were:
“Private equity and the whole venture fund concept have not worked and I don’t think the region is ready for it”
What [...]

Bernie Madoff, Cash Plus, Olint, the Jamaican Economy & the Youth

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If Bernie Madoff could only manage 1% to 1.5% per month. Olint was paying 8% to 10% per month. What does that make local investors?
Well it shows that the local investors into UFO clubs like Cash Plus, Olint and many other feeder clubs promoting anywhere from 8% to [...]

Is the Jamaica Trade & Invest (JTI) of any value to the local ICT entrepreneur?

The following article was written out of a need to express my experiences and views based on a sequence of events as it relates to the JTI and the PSDP.
My first experience
My only experience with PSDP was not a pleasant one.

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