Oodge.com - Your Caribbean and African Restaurant Guide
March 23, 2009
So while I was minding everyone’s business on Facebook as usual, I saw this group with a weird name and it had to do with food and Caribbean Food at that. So on further investigation and a few emails later, I got to the bottom of it all. Here’s the email interview I did with this startup called Oodge.
SC: When did you launch oodge.com?
Oodge was launched in July 2008
SC: How did you come up with the name oodge.com?
Oodge means “the Food”, “the Gastronomy” in a Bantu Language from Central Africa. (more…)
Tweet This: I’m now a believer and a twitterer, here’s why
March 4, 2009
I opened my first twitter account on September 4th, 2008. I figured, I’m a technology blogger, I test-drive lots of products, services and website, so why not this-since the buzz was getting hot and heavy. After I set it for my blog siliconcaribe.com, twitter.com/siliconcaribe, I twittered exactly twice there after and abandoned it. I just didn’t get it.
Yet, I was on Facebook, driving my 400 friends nuts with Facebook updates on the road from my Blackberry, at home chilling, when I’m up late working on client projects-whenever and where ever. I use those Facebook updates to do pretty much any and everything. I am using it to share how I’m feeling, what I’m doing, where I’m going, to sharing video links, article links, pointing people to my two blogs, this one and caribbeanstartupblog.com and many times the Facebook update would start a mini debate on a subject, with my friends in turn sharing opinions and other links to videos, articles and websites. Outside of regularly updating my Facebook status I am also a rabid text message sender, in fact most times I prefer to text than talk, my year old Blackberry is overworked and oh yeah my fingers too. (more…)