FaveBot: Is it worth discovering?

FaveBot is a new search service that gives you another way to search the web. FaveBot uses discovery as their search method. What does this mean? How is it different from going to your search engine of choice and just ‘Googling’ something? FaveBot uses tracking lists and this is where users enter in [...]

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The AOL Right Hook – They buy Bebo!

Does anyone out there know what in the digital world is AOL trying to do? In a post Microsoft-Yahoo merger-Google dominated world, this is a vital question. Let’s look a bit at the AOL milestones as of late. They swapped Platform A execs in and out last week, this week they buy Bebo, last year they [...]

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FriendFeed=Twitter on steroids

Google has created what I term a “Twitter on steroids” tool called FriendFeed. It consolidates your shared feed reader items, blog posts, youtube clips, flickr stream,etc into one RSS streamable feed. You may also share it on your Facebook profile page.

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New Media Has Made Product Marketing Lazy

“If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying ‘Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday,’ that’s advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk him into town, that’s promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flowerbed, that’s publicity. If you can get the mayor to laugh [...]

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I heart SxSWi

Though getting to the conference and back was a pain for me once I was there I had a blast (minus the cold/allergies/what-ever-the-heck-is-going-around that hit me). Notably there were visibly a lot more Blacks at this years SxSWi then in previous years. Definitely a good look. The “Where are all the Black [...]

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New Job Listing

Looking for a leadership role in design?  The Black Web 2.0 Job Board features web industry jobs, here are the latest: Senior Web Designer South Florida If you are interested in posting a job feel free to contact us at jobs (at) blackweb20 (dot) com.

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Black Planet Ranked Among the top Social Networks

New social network traffic figures released by Compete.com ranks Black Planet 6th among the top social networks. With over 13 million monthly visits, Black Planet is ranked above such juggernauts as LinkedIn, Ning, and Twitter. Black Planet also saw growth of 9% in terms of total US visits since February of 2007. The rumored Community [...]

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Interview with Johnny Taylor CEO of Black Web Enterprises

In the fifth episode of the Black Web 2.0 Show I sat down with Johnny Taylor President and CEO of Black Web Enterprises (BWE) IAC’s Black community-focused division.

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Guy Kawasaki Calls Steve Ballmer Racist at MIX08 Show in Las Vegas

Legendary Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Guy Kawasaki Kicked off Day two Keynote with a joke accusing Steve Ballmer being a racist, according to Guy, it must be the only reason why Steve didn’t hire him at Microsoft in 87’ when he applied, and thus why he ended up at Apple (and did ok for himself [...]

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Mix08 Day 1

MIX08 got off with a BIG BANG today with what looked like a full house (roughly 900-1200 people in the keynote). Ray Ozzie kicked off the event and shared his vision for how Web developers and designers can deliver seamless rich media experiences across web applications, rich desktop clients and mobile devices with the HUB [...]

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