My pet peeve with blackbird is that it is not compatible with a lot of plugins and websites! That is quite annoying and now I am going back to my regular mozilla!! I’m just going to transfer my bookmarks from blackbird to mozilla.

That’s one of the silliest things I’ve ever read. IE, FF, Safari et al make no preference over which race of people their browser is targeted at. Blackbird specifically and explicitly targets black people. One is clearly more segmented than the other by design!

“This allows us to go online the way we choose and finally have a more culturally relevant way of doing so”

All of the sites that are available through Blackbird are available through every other browser. Oh wait, did you mean there’s links in Blackbird to these sites? Other browsers have had bookmarking features since the very beginning.

“Niche is the new black”

Don’t you mean “black is the new niche”?

You want a browser that filters out content which isn’t specifically targeted towards black people? This is not leading anywhere good.. what happens when the anti-black browsers appear that filter out black content instead of filtering out everything else? Or the anti-semitic browsers?

The vast majority of these black-only initiatives are blatant rip-offs that simply add “Black” in the name and offer little to no value beyond “comfort” of the black users that don’t want to realise that they live in a multi-cultural world.

(awaits shouts of “racist!”…)

“How we can ALL move past the thought of a niche application or site being separatist?”

We can’t. Not if the application really is separatist. We can’t pretend that it isn’t. Having a million and one black-only applications (whether it’s an ISP, a website or a music award ceremony) perpetuates separation and segregation, and that should be obvious.

The reason this has all come out now and not when the MOBO’s were created is because it’s obviously gone too far now. I mean, it’s a web browser. Why does anyone need a black one? It’s like creating a black telephone (Blackphone anyone?) handset. You can still call all the same numbers and people on the other end don’t sound any different when you do, so what’s the point, except to remind everyone that we look a little different?

The point about black cultural media not being so readily available may be well founded, but surely the answer would be to push for better integration, NOT create an entirely separate black-only world?

In the words of Michael Jackson, “I’m not gonna spend my life being a colour”. He was right. We shouldn’t. Instead of constantly reminding each other that this guy’s black and this guy’s white, we should instead be working together to remember that actually we’re all the same colour underneath.

As a white man married to a black woman for 11 years, I find it absurd. The idea that there needs to be a black way to access information is one of the most ridiculous I have ever encountered. I want my daughter to grow up in a world were people do not make assumptions about her because of her color.

Two steps forward, one step back.

I am proud of this product do i think it is the best it could be no but has it crashed on any of our 3 slow computers like IE? Does has it attracted any spyware? NO and it feels faster than FireFox 3. Right now Chrome and BlackBird are the 2 most stable Browsers we (5) people in this house are using for music, video, social media and email almost 16 hours straight right now the 17 yo boy is chatting via Meebo, Myspace and listening to music on Imeem.com. Basically it works! Thats all i can ask of software on 1st version

Why is it likely to fail? For core communication services (like connecting to the net, cell phone, etc) people want flagship brands that they can trust from major companies

So for all those with dreams of custom tool bars, custom browsers, race based ISPs (remember Blinks and so many others), race based mobile phones for a fully acculturated audience, or re-hashing a popular site’s theme ‘in black’ — you probably want to think again…its been tried and each time has had lackluster results

What makes a browser black — a few built in links and its color?…cmon

There is a place for culturally sensitive content as a core focus for a publishing company…trying to do it via a communications platform seems futile