40Billion.com: Wants to Help You Raise Money
40billion.com seeks to democratize the venture capital process by giving members an easy and cost-effective way to create and distribute a business plan, raise capital through contributions and loans or invest in a start-up. It’s a novel idea. Sure, sites such as Prosper.com democratize the lending process by facilitating loans not from banks to borrowers [...]
Read MoreTinyChat Can Be the Glue for Your Social Networks
When you have accounts on multiple social networks and services, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We have seen many services pop up to help us aggregate our content and deal with the information overload. TinyChat is a service that can actually help glue these separate networks together and get more value from the connections you’ve [...]
Read MoreBig Box Black History
This year marked a historical year in black history. As celebrations happen in communities throughout the world, there are also things going on online. The three best known Big Box stores (Walmart, Target and Kmart) have found their way online to celebrate black history month. They all took very different approaches and formed interesting partnerships [...]
Read MoreTwenty-Eight Days Turns Black History Into Black Progress
AT&T recently rolled out a new campaign called Twenty-Eight Days which uses a Facebook Page to create a community of people interested in changing the focus of Black History Month: “Black History Month is traditionally a time for looking back,” reads the site. “But what if we used every single day of this month to [...]
Read MoreRecovery.gov: Track the Stimulus Package Online
President Obama signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 today, and while much of the $789 billion in spending provided over the legislation’s 1,100 pages will take years to make its way into the economy, one provision of the bill is already being enacted: The White House has launched Recovery.gov, a site designed [...]
Read More50 Cent Takes Rap Beef Online
50 Cent has taken rap beef to a completely new level. Infusing the popularity of his website and the clever employment of social networking tools like Kyte and Youtube, 50cent’s beef with Rick Ross, has spilled off wax, and online. Unlike rap beefs of the past, this battle has quickly become less about the use [...]
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