WordPress released the latest version of the ever so popular blogging software. Wordpress 2.5 includes a completely redesigned backend, with a new user interface, a customizable dashboards, full screen writing, enhanced searching features and an auto suggesting tags feature. Wordpress 2.5 also includes multi-file uploading capabilities, for those image latent posts, and a new galleries feature which allows users to easily embedded photo galleries (thumbnails and captions) onto each page.
Shirley B. of Dallas, Texas is the winner of the 2008 Black Weblog Awards theme contest. Her theme’s inspiration was pulled from 1940s Russian propaganda. Here is a peak at what to expect: (more…)
Am I the only one who thought about the Jon B. and Tupac song when reading this post title? On the serious tip Down for Everyone or Just Me is a simple and useful to tool to find out if problems you are experiencing with a website loading are happening to everyone or just you. (more…)
Black Web 2.0 was recently ranked among top 6 blogs in the world by TLC Studio, a design studio that monitors and critics web 2.0 with special emphasis on Africa. The full list is as follows:
What do you get if you mix the blog searching capabilities of Technorati, the news capabilities of Google News, the product aggregation of Froogle, with a Digg-like article submission and ranking system? The answer is… Wikio, the European based personalizable news portal and media search engine. Wikio delivers the top news and videos from over 55,000 media sites and over 30,000 blogs. With Wikio you can customize, save and share your own personal news pages by adding any keywords, subjects, or RSS feeds that interest you. Your custom portal pages will then be updated as soon as the keywords you specify are found in any articles, site, or blog indexed by Wikio. Wikio’s approach on personalization allows users to be as specific or as broad as they would like, and the fact that they only index a small amount sites (that I assume go through some sort of verification process) means that the information you get will more than likely come from a viable source. (more…)
Recently launchedMuxtape, has been all the buzz on Twitter the past couple of days. Considering the site just announced its launch March 25, the amount of muxtapes being created was phenomenal. In fact yesterday, I saw a few tweets stating that the service wasn’t allowing any new signups.
Well, I got in there today, and though I haven’t started my muxtape yet, my playlist is set and ready for upload. I just gotta figure out which one of my most played genres I feel like sharing with folks.
Just what you need to start your weekend off — a YouTube video of a rapper — Poetic Prophet — who fancies himself the SEO Rapper. For what he lacks in delivery, he makes up for as a writer. There are some clever phrases in here on the relationship between design and SEO. Too bad he’s not a little more like the Jay-Z of Web rapping, but at this point we’ll take what we can get. Kudos.
To see more of his vids, visit m0serious’s YouTube channel and catch previous raps like, “Paid Search 101 rap” and “Link Building 101 Rap.” We can’t make this stuff up.
No this is not a joke, it is a real site complete with an embeddable Meebo chatroom, BallerAlert TV powered by Kyte, and its own social network. BallerAlert.com is self described as:
“The Ultimate New Nightlife based FREE Text Service That lets you know where the Ballers are!!!! (more…)
In a post earlier today Valleywag reported that Laszlo Bock, Google’s vice president of people operations, assured members of Congress last June that Google, which was lobbying for more H1-B visas for immigrant workers, had plenty of black employees. “We have a very strong internal Black Googler Network,” he said. “We actually view it as our obligation to reach out to underrepresented communities in our industry, particularly women in engineering, particularly African-Americans. “How many [of Google's employees] are African-American?” asked Representative Maxine Waters. “I don’t actually have that data at my fingertips,” was Bock’s reply. “I apologize.” (more…)
