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Recent Articles on WatchMi.com -

2007-08-11T04:25:00.000-07:00

Here are some recent articles on WatchMi. This Caribbean video sharing website is getting lots of press! Check the out!

www.melodymakers.de/forum/showthread.php?p=41042

www.digg.com/music/Watchmi_covers_Jah_Cure_s_press_conference_and_conducts_exclusive_interview

www.ladydawnpromotions.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

www.jamaicans.com/news/announcements/JamaicasElectionInternet082007.shtml

www.mog.com/mollifire/blog_post/100962

JAMAICA’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN TAKES OVER THE INTERNET - WATCHMI.COM

2007-08-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

[Press Release]

Kingston, Jamaica: - Since the announcement on July 8 of the August 27, 2007 election, both political parties have been aggressively campaigning. They have significantly increased their advertising presence both in the print and electronic media. In an avant-garde move, both political parties have sought to utilize an unconventional advertising channel to broadcast their party’s message: The Internet.

Enter WatchMi.com - a free Caribbean video sharing website that mainly contains music and party videos but which has now seen a different kind of party video added to its inventory. With the recent hype the Caribbean video-sharing website has received by virtue of its exclusive coverage of the recently-released reggae artiste Jah Cure, it is little wonder that the political parties in the heat of the impending election have decided to utilize this medium. The PNP and JLP very recently placed several video campaign advertisements on www.watchmi.com.

Internet campaigning is a novel concept for Jamaica’s political parties but so far the move has not been disastrous with the ads receiving a moderate number of hits. Since www.watchmi.com appeals primarily to the 18-35 year-old demographic, the logic seems to be geared towards attracting the younger electorate. The posting of these videos to the Watchmi.com website will definitely capture the eyes and ears of a wider market and broaden the party’s geographical reach.

WatchMi – www.watchmi.com (or watchmeh.com) is a 100% free to use Caribbean video-sharing website. Members can perform mobile, digital or video camera uploads and share videos with friends/family. Additionally, businesses can advertise digitally mastered commercials for free. Launched just over a month ago, watchmi.com is already receiving widespread rave reviews and by all predictions will permanently influence the manner in which information is exchanged across the Caribbean.

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Jah Cure Interview & Press Conference Video Links on WatchMi.com

2007-08-04T13:41:00.000-07:00

Exclusive Jah Cure Interview only on WatchMi.com

2007-07-31T13:20:00.000-07:00

Two days after his release from prison Jah Cure gives http://www.watchmi.com/ an exclusive interview. Watch the FULL Jah Cure interview ONLY on http://www.watchmi.com/.

Here's a snipet from this WatchMi.com exclusive interview:

WatchMi.com: I understand Capleton gave you the name ‘Jah Cure’. How did this come about?
Jah Cure: Two things me love inna life. Me love music and me love herbs. So that’s how him come up with that thing.

WatchMi.com: How did your career get started? I understand Beres Hammond may have had something to do with it.
Jah Cure: Me just come bout from inna the country to town from when me about 13. Big up Mo Bay. And me see Capleton as me bredren and some youths who me know know him and him a the closest artist you get to if you a look a bust. Tings and tings happen and me link up with Sizzla and Sizzla was the man of the moment. And a just musical vibe a flow down and we a drive inna him car and we a rehearse pon a rhythm. And we go down by Grizzlies. And me never know say Beres Hammond have a office down there. We a work and vibe and Beres Hammond come on and hear it and say it sound like me have some conviction inna me voice. Me never know say Beres is a producer. Sizzla had already done record some track for him. Linking up wid Beres now. Sizzla a do some rehearsal for some foreign show and is like me done make him know me want to link wid Beres. And Sizzla carry we round there and we record the track.

WatchMi.com: What was your biggest hit before being incarcerated? (Remind us of it).
Jah Cure: Same song with me and Sizzla. Divide and Rule. “To divide and rule is them only plan. Only plan. I a nuh fool to make them overcome. I and I a King - in this jungle.”

WatchMi.com: You have consistently professed your innocence. How do you feel now
towards your accuser?
Jah Cure: Me just turn round the negative into the positive and it work out for me and me just leave it at that and give Jah thanks. Cause them say what nuh kill you strengthen you so we just build pon it. And love inna we heart. It free.

WatchMi.com: How did you spend your last night in prison?
Jah Cure: We never sleep. Me just sit up and talk and a joke and know say this is the last night.

WatchMi.com: While you were in prison you had a chance to perform your music. Any
artist from prison you see you self collaborating with?
Jah Cure: A youth name Cyrana. A little short youth from Seaview. Him just talented. A me little bredren, a promising youth and me nah stop talk bout him until dem do something fi him. Unna a go see him.

WatchMi.com: What about your first night as a free man? How did you spend that?
Jah Cure: Hectic. Meeting with the press. Me nah get depressed though, a me work.

WatchMi.com: You’ve been hailed as a talented, musical genius. In fact, people have
compared you to Bob Marley. What do you think about that?
Jah Cure: Wow. A that dem say? If a that dem say dem a make some good comment. Me thankful of that because me never see meself inna dem way deh. Me just love music. Me a do it from me heart. When me a do a song me never do it and say “this a song a go be number one”. Me just do it and see it work. And you see the more me get the strength from me fans, the more me just go deeper into it. So if them see me that way is like them a inspire me more fi go deep.

WatchMi.com: What are your future plans musically and otherwise?
Jah Cure: My future plan is so much. Is just great things and positive movements. Family dem pon the way.

WatchMi.com: I’m sure the women want to know Jah Cure. Do you have a girlfriend?
Jah Cure: Me will have an answer for you the next time me see you.

WatchMi.com: Any special message to your fans?
Jah Cure: Just tell them say me love them and me thank them fi build me. A them make me strong. And a mean, I’m just happy to be a free man. From me deh behind the bar and can push the sound so, imagine me deh ya now so you must expect it to be twice.

WatchMi.com: Tell us about your latest release. Any inspiration from being incarcerated?
Jah Cure: Just the struggle. Inna the struggle and it’s just my life. People come and go. Memories nah fade you know. Me a come from nothing, but you see me just a gwaan give thanks and gwaan eat. Nuff things me nuh even ready fi say. It still early.

(Watch the full, exclusive Jah Cure interview on www.watchmi.com)

WatchMi.com - Exposing Caribbean Talent by Video Sharing

2007-07-31T13:16:00.000-07:00

See new links for watchmi.com articles online:

http://www.jamaicans.com/news/announcements/WatchmiExposesCaribbeanTalent.shtml

http://www.islandevents.com/entertainment/article_4689.shtml

WatchMi.com - Caribbean Video Sharing

2007-07-28T13:44:00.000-07:00

[Press Release]

Kingston, Jamaica: - In recent years, the Internet has witnessed a proliferation of social media networking websites. With the increasing global popularity of MySpace, Hi5, FaceBook and YouTube, Caribbean Internet users in an effort to find their own socio-cultural space, have resorted to creating micro-communities within these mega-sites. However, the Datwicked network has discovered that there are benefits to having our own homegrown variety.

Just this month Deean Fontaine and Wayne Marsh of the Datwicked network launched WatchMi ( www.watchmi.com or http://www.watchmeh.com/), a Caribbean online video-sharing community affording users the ability to upload, share and watch videos. Deean Fontaine discusses the easy functionality of WatchMi."Caribbean people are so culturally eclectic and creative. We need our own viral video community to share our cultural diversity both amongst ourselves and with the wider world. Also, Wayne and I wanted to find an easy, fun way to expose undiscovered and budding Caribbean talent. And we thought the message would be unequivocal against an indigenous backdrop.

Anyone with a digital camera, camcorder or even a camera-phone can upload videos and share it publicly with everyone, or privately with friends and family."
The early reaction to this venture has been tremendous particularly within the music fraternity. Both Greensleeves and VP Records have given WatchMi their endorsement, using the site as a vehicle to market some of their own Caribbean recording acts. Additionally, management for artistes like Richie Spice have also come early on board. The widespread international popularity of Reggae, Dancehall and Soca means WatchMi will be another viable medium through which Caribbean music will find a voice.

But WatchMi is not just a music video site and the owners anticipate that users will upload a wide variety of content. Additionally, in the next developmental phase set for completion in a few weeks, WatchMi will be a full digital content community, allowing users to share not just videos but audio and photographs.

WatchMi.com, part of the http://www.datwicked.com/ network, is obviously making us reevaluate the benefits of indigenization - giving us in the Caribbean an invaluable opportunity to make a global mark in this technology-driven digital age.
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DatWicked in the News

2007-07-14T06:51:00.000-07:00

See http://www.datwicked.com/ write-up on:

http://emediawire.com/releases/2007/7/emw539275.htm

Article about DatWicked entitled: Caribbean Gets Social Media Networking Boost.

iLandhop opens up the Caribbean

2007-07-14T06:38:00.000-07:00

[Press Release] Kingston, Jamaica, NY – July 11, 2007

Newspaper classifieds have traditionally been the primary medium through which goods and services are marketed within the islands of the Caribbean. However, two innovative Caribbean entrepreneurs recently launched a free Caribbean classifieds website that will indubitably provide fierce competition to the conventional paid-newspaper Caribbean classified.

The site is called iLandhop (http://www.ilandhop.com/) and offers its members a completely free classified advertising service. By completing a one-time registration, iLandhoppers can post unlimited classifieds concerning a variety of interests including jobs, real estate (sales and rentals), personals, auto sales, general merchandise sale and vacation and travel services. Moreover, businesses are invited to display their banner ads free of charge or for a nominal cost, have one designed and uploaded by the iLandhop team.

Wayne Marsh, one of the owners of the website and an internet marketing guru residing in Jamaica explains that the no-cost feature of iLandhop was not accidental. “iLandhop was formed specifically so that people from within the islands, across the diaspora and even those in the global village who want to keep in touch with the Caribbean, can find in this one indigenous spot – both community as well as a marketplace to advertise and promote goods, services and businesses without worrying about costs.”

The idea of a free classifieds website is somewhat novel to the Caribbean region. Historically reliant on paid newspaper classifieds and sectional ads, current market research shows that the time is ripe and right for the introduction of a site like iLandhop to the region. With the widespread accessibility of computers, the increasing popularity of the internet, the advent of the CARICOM single market and on the eve of the single economy, iLandhop is destined to spread like wildfire throughout the region.

We're on Jamaicans.com!

2007-06-28T08:08:00.000-07:00

Read the Jamaicans.com announcement about our network of sites here:

http://www.jamaicans.com/news/announcements/websiteunitecar.shtml

Websites Uniting the Caribbean Community

2007-06-21T05:56:00.000-07:00

[Press Release]

Kingston, Jamaica: - Two young Caribbean entrepreneurs recently merged technology with Caribbean integration to launch www.DatWicked.com, a web portal that unites Caribbean people by creating a community of 5 Caribbean Lifestyles websites:

* www.ilandhop.com
* www.viberasta.com
* www.watchmi.com
* www.caribcupid.com
* www.caribscoop.com

With just a few clicks on a personal computer, users across the Caribbean can connect to DatWicked websites for news, dating, video-sharing, artist development, networking and advertising. The sites are specifically designed to promote Caribbean integration. They also present the Caribbean to the global market as a rich and diverse unit while simultaneously showcasing the uniqueness of each island.

DatWicked websites are 100% free to register and use. According to L. Deean Fontaine, brainchild of this enterprising venture, DatWicked websites were specifically designed to be free. "We believe no-fee sites remove communication restrictions between people in the islands and the Caribbean Diaspora."

"With the advent of the CARICOM single market and on the eve of the single economy, a website that strengthens community amongst the islands is very timely. www.DatWicked.com demonstrates the power of the Internet in unifying our people while also providing information for non-nationals interested in our region." Fontaine explains.

www.DatWicked.com is a portal to five Caribbean websites developed by Caribbean people, covering the breath of the Diaspora while penetrating the depth of life on each of the 30 countries covered by the sites.

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For interviews, pics or additional info, please contact:

Alison Young
Entertainment Publicist
ALYKHAT PR
Mobile: (876) 365-3734
VOIP: (954) 642-0618

Caribscoop: your source for all Caribbean news

2007-06-18T17:58:00.000-07:00

Caribbean news portal Caribscoop provides you with a great way to get all your Caribbean news in one place. Individual news headlines are gathered for individual countries of the Caribbean as well for the Caribbean countries collectively. Additionally, news headlines are listed in categories such as current news, sports, entertainment and business. Since news is updated daily, you can be sure you're always getting the latest.

See it for yourself - visit Caribscoop.com

Island-hopping Across the Caribbean Just Became Easier

2007-06-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

[Press Release]

New York, NY – June 15, 2007 – A group of young Caribbean professionals based in the United States last Thursday merged technology with Caribbean integration to launch www.iLandhop.com, a website that makes navigating across the Caribbean, island to island, possible with just a few clicks on your personal computer. The website was specifically designed to promote Caribbean integration and present the Caribbean to the global market as a rich, diverse unit while simultaneously respecting the uniqueness of each island.

iLandhop.com serves as an online bulletin-board for people across the Caribbean diaspora, as well as tourists, investors, corporations, event-planners and employers. In fact, just about anyone interested in the Caribbean market can post unlimited free classified ads to a single island, a selection of islands or all Caribbean islands collectively. iLandhoppers can also engage in forum discussions covering a variety of topics directly related to the Caribbean experience. For businesses, iLandhop.com offers the opportunity to display graphical banner ads free of cost, with the ability to track ad impressions and clicks.

According to L. Deean Fontaine, the founder of this enterprising venture, “With the advent of the CARICOM single market and on the eve of the single economy, a website that strengthens community amongst the islands is very timely. iLandhop.com demonstrates the power of the internet in unifying our people while at the same time providing information for non-nationals interested in our region.”

iLandhop.com is poised to become the most universal website developed by Caribbean people covering the breath of the Caribbean Diaspora globally while penetrating the depth of life on each of the 30 countries covered by the website.

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Contact: L. Deean Fontaine
(212) 882-1899

Welcome

2007-06-14T18:27:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Datwicked News!

This blog will provide you with updates for the datwicked network of Caribbean-themed websites. For more information, please visit our website:

www.Datwicked.com