Kanye Admits Ghostwriters Feed His Blog
This week Kanye West made a stir in the news, but not for the usual reasons. It wasn’t his latest rant over an award or a scuffle with the paparazzi that got the PR world buzzing (although that was in the news too), but his admission that his popular blog KanyeUniversity.com is written for him [...]
Read MoreCloud.li Makes Twitter Searches Visual
Back in the day I used to swear by great tool to help me get over writer’s block: the Visual Thesaurus. Often all it took was seeing words similar to the one I was stuck on swirling around the screen to get my brain going again. I still use it all the time, and now [...]
Read MoreGoogle Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice
I got my Google Voice invite Friday afternoon and have been fiddling around with it ever since. Many folks might remember Google’s lackluster (at first) acquisition of GrandCentral. I signed up for it a while back and gave the number to all of three people who promptly decided to keep dialing my real number. In [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review: iPhone 3.0, BackType Connect, Entrecard, and Gmail Previews
Backtype Connect Backtype Connect is a new feature from Backtype that allows you to see the conversations developing around a particular page, regardless of where those conversations are taking place. There is even a bookmarklet that gives you one-click access to what people are saying about whatever you’re looking at. (previous Backtype coverage) It also [...]
Read MoreInside Look at MediaTakeOut.com
From the outside-in, MediaTakeOut.com looks a little different than most urban entertainment blogs. But Fred Mwangaguhunga, the website’s founder, says the site was originally created to (and still is) primarily run as a business that fills a void in the online media marketspace. “It’s not an extension of personality, it’s not a hobby, it’s not [...]
Read MoreBlackPlanet Gets An Upgrade, Introduces Status Updates
Black Planet introduced a few new features a few days ago, and re-announced some others that have been in the works. They included a Facebook-like feature that allows users to update their status, a revamped version of its chat rooms, and a news bar to that keeps readers updated on new content distributed through Interactive [...]
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