MTV features Black Professionals in Games

I mentioned this briefly in a post earlier, I was pleasently surprised when I came across this series on MTV’s Multiplayer blog. I just wanted to take a moment to big-up Multiplayer for even doing this series. I also wanted to share a little on each person they have featured thus far: N’Gai Croal [...]

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BlackBlogWatch on the lookout

BlackBlogWatch is a very cool site I came across a little while ago. The site tracks black blogs via RSS feeds. We all know that there is a wealth of info…great info out there in the blogosphere. BlackBlogWatch helps you track that info and posts that relate to a specific Black Blog. [...]

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Socialthing! the next big thing

The other day I had a nice surprise in my inbox, a private beta invite to Socialthing! I first came in contact with Socialthing! at this years SxSwi. Though I recognized the name I wasn’t quite sure what exactly they did, a quick stop to their website answered the question.

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WayoutTv: Damon Wayans takes his show to the Internet

Comedian Damon Wayans star of such shows as “In Living Color” and “My Wife and Kids” and member of the very talented Wayans’ Family, has taken his newest show to the internet.

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Nerd vs. N*gga

I came across this video on YouTube, I am sure I found it on some other site or someone told be about it but who or where escapes me right now. Anyway, this dude Daniel Beaty was recently on Def Poetry and his piece was called Nerd vs. N*gga. I could try to [...]

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Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps

Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools. Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]

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Clutch Magazine’s 1st Annual Blog Academy

So if you haven’t heard yet Clutch Magazine is having their 1st Annual Blog Academy this summer. Along with others Black Web 2.0 will be partnering with Clutch to share social media tips on how you can succeed online in this Web 2.0 world. The academy will last for 2 months and will [...]

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Google Sponsors Sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad

Google, for the second year in a row, sponsored the sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad. The Olympiad consisted of 16 teams from eight Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), or Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) competing in five computer science-related events. One of the events consist of [...]

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04.11.08 webNews Wrap-up

Hulu will go international. Yahoo runs 2 week trial of Google AdSense in Yahoo search results. AOL launches Technology network. Yahoo Maps in living color. Google crawls HTML forms.

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InteractiveOne’s Web Strategy

There has been lots of buzz around InteractiveOne, a RadioOne company that plans to focus on interactive web media. Many of us have been wondering what exactly is InteractiveOne and what plans does RadioOne have for it? I recently noticed there are actually a few sites out there from InteractiveOne that are either in Beta or [...]

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