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10 years ago today, @jutcltd and I launched Google Transit, which embeds JUTC routes, schedules, and fares directly inside Google Maps.
Here's the inside story of how a @UWImona student partnered with the JUTC to do the only such implementation in the Caribbean, and win a National Innovation Award.
(Inspired by this decade-old tweet from @Gordonswaby, which I only just saw recently:
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1/There's been some conversation about Giftme, so let's explain what we actually do and how it works. 🇯🇲
Giftme is a Jamaican technology company that has spent over 5 years building digital gifting, rewards and payment infrastructure.
Here's what you should know. 🧵
2/ 🎁 Digital Gift Cards
Giftme allows individuals and businesses to purchase, send and redeem digital gift cards across 350+ participating merchants.
From supermarkets and restaurants to everyday shopping and services.
No physical gift card required.
3/ 💳 One Linked Card. Multiple Merchants.
One of our features allows you to link your existing debit or credit card ONCE and earn rewards when shopping at participating merchants.
No need to purchase a gift card in advance or maintain a separate balance.
Simply use your linked card.
4/💰 Why Is There a Fee?
Processing card transactions costs money.
Our payment processing costs approximately 2.65%, which we pass through rather than absorb.
This allows us to provide the convenience of linked-card transactions while sustaining the infrastructure behind the service.
5/ 🔍 Transparency Matters.
Giftme discloses applicable fees upfront, including before you link your card.
You can review the charges and decide whether the convenience and rewards make sense for you.
There are no surprises about the disclosed fees.
6/ ⭐ Free vs Premium
With the free tier, linked-card transactions attract a 2.65% fee, and eligible purchases earn 1% back.
With Giftme Premium at US$8.99/month, the fee reduces to 1.25%, and eligible purchases earn 3% back.
You choose what works for you.
7/ 🏢 Corporate Gifting & Rewards
Giftme also helps companies distribute digital gifts, employee incentives, customer rewards and recognition.
We've served over 600 corporations, making it easier for businesses to reward people without managing physical gift cards.
8/🛍️ Supporting Jamaican Businesses
Giftme connects consumers with hundreds of participating merchants while giving businesses digital tools to attract customers, distribute rewards and drive additional spending.
We're building infrastructure that benefits both merchants and consumers.
9/🇯🇲 Built in Jamaica. Built for Jamaicans.
For over five years, Giftme has continued investing in technology, merchant partnerships, customer support, security and new products.
Our business model, including applicable transaction fees, helps fund these services.
10/ We welcome questions, criticism and feedback. That's how products improve.
But it's important to distinguish between a service having a disclosed fee and a service being dishonest.
You don't have to like every pricing model to understand why it exists.
Learn more: shopgiftme.com
Has there been an explanation for why travel paid for by external organizations is also banned?
🔘 UPDATE: Why Jamaica is banning official overseas travel
It all comes down to money!
Jamaica's Cabinet Secretary, Audrey Sewell, has issued a memorandum to the Financial Secretary and Permanent Secretaries explaining the rationale for the immediate ban on official overseas travel.
"Government must lead by example in demonstrating prudence, restraint and an unwavering commitment to directing scarce public resources towards the country's most urgent priorities," she wrote.
▫️ Sewell said the unprecedented destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa has placed enormous pressure on Jamaica's financial resources and public sector capacity, declaring that the country is now at a "critical juncture", requiring the Government to exercise the "highest degree of fiscal discipline".
▫️ She said Ministers and senior public officials must remain firmly focused on national reconstruction, economic recovery and the effective delivery of public services.
▫️ The ban applies across the public sector, regardless of whether travel is funded by taxpayers or external organisations. It takes immediate effect and will remain in place until March 31, 2027.
▫️Overseas travel may only be permitted with written prior approval for post-Melissa reconstruction and recovery, national security, approved board meetings, essential tourism promotion and genuine emergencies of compelling national importance.
Who the hell told @NFLonDAZN that want this Fanzone BS as a sidebar? Lemme watch the game fullscreen by default
White boy fun is underrated😂😂😂
Matthew McConaughey says he woke up at 2 AM to find Woody Harrelson in bed between him and his wife
"We hadn't seen each other for a year at the time, when I was living out in LA...Two in the morning. Wake up. My wife goes 'Ahh!' and I go what is it between us in bed?"
"He jumped the fence, picked the window, snuck in, and got in bed with us. People have been shot over less."
Woody :"Yeah, well I was hoping he didn't have a gun. But I wasn't sure, actually but what a good way to wake up a friend, you know what I mean? And get to be next to his wife. She was warm to me"
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If you have a child in grades 4,5 or 6 and you have an android phone, please DM me. I'll give you access to EduFocal for free for 1 month in exchange for testing our Android app and providing feedback.
Alternatively, you can email me at gordon[at]edufocal.com
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These gas station quality anecdotes are meaningless unless you actually track how many litres you put in, and reset your trip computer to see your actual distance traveled. Do that 3 or 4 times.
And "Total HWT better than Total Downtown" is just believing in fairy tales tbh.
Up to 5 years ago, I thought exactly like this, and would ask the same question.
Now I've got a 17-month old (planned), and want more. Life comes at you fast🤷🏾♂️
...Seems pretty clear that the difference here is that if men do this, you don't see other men starting a whole movement saying it's actually the wife's fault...
