Hip-Hop 2.0: BET’s Hip-Hop Vs. America Available on Web
What a novel idea, making what’s probably going to be one of your most watched programs a Webisode as well as a television program. It looks like BET has really begun to understand what they’re supposed to use BET on Blast for. (Though they still haven’t integrated it (BET on Blast) into BET.com proper yet. [...]
Read MoreA Quick Way to See What Readers Think the Top 5 Feeds Are
Markus and I have been hard at work developing our OPML Analyzer (not so much me, lol). What is this OPML Analyzer you ask? It is a very quick way to find out what our readers (including you) think the the top 5 RSS Feeds are. It is not to hard, all you have to [...]
Read MoreLaunched: GlobalGrind.com
The long awaited Global Grind launched today and there is much to see over there. More importantly though, this is a great example of why niche startpages and social networks will be successful despite what some may think. Markus (he keeps the back-end under control here, look at our About page if you don’t know [...]
Read MoreGlobal Grind Launches Tomorrow
Tomorrow the Hip-Hop web experience will be a bit different. Global Grind is launching and is the first Startpage to launch that targets Hip-Hop Culture. This is a brief description taken from the Global Grind MySpace page: “No time to surf the web? Let Global Grind bring the web to you all on one page. [...]
Read MoreCreating a Better User Experience with Hey! Nielsen
So Hey! Nielsen is out of private Beta with today being their first day in public Beta. As far as which websites are currently featured there are all the typical sites that I expected: Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, YouTube, ect. I did a search for every Black website I could think of and came up with [...]
Read MoreWeek in Links: Visualization, Bullsh*t, & Stripes
Dack.com Web Economy Bullshit Generator Very funny, comes up with crazy Web 2.0 phrases that don’t really exist like “facilitate ubiquitous web services” or “scale frictionless technologies” visualcomplexity.com A visual exploration of mapping complex networks such as a favorite of mine “Who Owns the Internet?” Verizon, Sprint, At&t, or Qwest? Stripemania Stripe background generator Walk2Web [...]
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