Black Web 2.0 Interviews Glam Media - Part 3

Check out the final part of this interview series, part 3 of 3, from our interview with Tamera Reynolds while we were at Blogging While Brown.  She talks about the misconceptions of ad networks and what type of publisher should join an ad network, pretty interesting stuff:

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RushmoreDrive Expands Editoral Content

RushmoreDrive, the search engine for the Black community, recently announced that Dr. Nsenga Burton will head up their editorial team. Dr. Burton brings with her over ten years of experience in journalism and new media to RushmoreDrive’s current editorial offerings; The Daily Drive and Detour. Nsenga has already hit the ground running, creating a new CNN-like [...]

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What Everybody Ought to Know About The New Facebook Design

I’ve been playing around with the new Facebook layout a lot this week, and while I initially did not like it, I think it’s slowly growing on me. Last week, Facebook announced that the new layout was available to every user, if they logged into a new location. Take a look for yourself by logging [...]

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Green Gadgets: Solio Universal Charger

Lately, I have been on the hunt for gadgets that utilize natural resources for power. I figure it’s the least I could do to give back. With oil dependence out of control and electricity consumption rising we all should be doing our part, right? I recall being at the Consumer Electronics Show, the largest gadget-fest in [...]

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Glam Media Black Life Interview - Part 2

Check out part 2 of 3 from our interview with Tamera Reynolds.  She talks about the blogs she reads, how she recruits and their editorial structure.  Check it out below and check back tomorrow for the final part of this interview:

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12seconds.tv Invites!

I got my invite!! Come play with Black Web 2.0 as we explore 12seconds.tv! We have 30 invites.  Are you interested?  If so send an email to invites@blackweb20.com We hope to see some of you there soon! Our First Impressions: We are excited to be able to try a new product with you and it looks like it might [...]

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12seconds.tv : Microblogging Video

I applied for an invite to join this new site (it’s invite only public alpha with 500 invites), 12seconds.tv that I found through a Tweet from DarlaMack.  I haven’t received an invite yet, but hopefully I will soon.   I can’t wait to jump in an play around.   As the name implies, the site [...]

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Black Web 2.0 interviews Glam Media

While at Blogging While Brown we got a chance to interview Tamera Reynolds who is the brains behind Black Life.  She gave us a little more info on what exactly Black Life is and the goals for the channel.  You may remember we recently reported on the launch of Black Life just last week so [...]

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Jargon: Wordpress, SSH, and FTP

The web has often been described as a series of pipes. Data shooting back and forth between machines as soon as you can think about it. While this analogy isn’t technically correct, it serves the purpose. Many of the blogs that you frequent within the community are points of origins within these pipes. A popular [...]

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Newest Contributor

I am glad to welcome our newest contributor, Fredric.  If you don’t know he is the publisher of a very cool site called Young Black Professional Guide.  He was kind enough to drop a few keystrokes on who he is as an introduction: My name is Fredric Mitchell and I am a professional web developer and [...]

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