Embrace Your Inner You with K!dult
When you were growing up, did you find yourself having different and more mature interests than you teenage counterparts? Were you often ridiculed and forced to hide your true interests and self due to peer pressure? Perhaps people just didn’t “get you” and assumed you were weird or rather aloof. Drawing from his fan’s inspiration, Pharrell Williams has created a website that directly addresses this current issue. Find out exactly what Pharrell’s mission is inside.
Read MoreTastemaker Mike Street Brings Social Media Experience to Luxury Brands
While it’s hard to find someone who is not a social media strategist, Mike Street backs up that title with years of experience creating digital media strategies for brands. He brings passion to both his work as a professional and to helping expand the scope of what black people do in social media. I had [...]
Read MoreAndroid Gingerbread Coming Soon, Android Market Set for Major Update
Android users have been anxiously anticipating the next update of the mobile operating system. Android Gingerbread, previously thought to be version 3.0, will actually be version 2.3. At the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Android Gingerbread would be coming in the next few weeks. Android Gingerbread is supposed to be [...]
Read MoreThe Internet: What do African Americans Really Want?
This is a question that I’ve tried to answer at several several times during my career and countless other media brands and entrepreneurs have as well. As the Internet becomes a part of the everyday lives of more people each day, The African-American audience has continued to pose unique challenges and opportunities. First let’s look [...]
Read MoreCheck into Foursquare, Gowalla, Places, and Brightkite with Footfeed
While Facebook Places and Foursquare reign at the top of the location based services ecosystem, there are other players like Gowalla and Britekite. It is unwieldy to check into multiple accounts when you arrive at a location so most users choose one to the exclusion of others. However, each service has different features which have [...]
Read MoreTweets is Watching: Jay-Z Hits Collection Vol. 1 Website
That Jay-Z guy sure has some nice websites. He recently partnered with Bing to launch a promotional site for his book Decode, which includes a location-based scavenger hunt. Jay-Z’s Hits Collection Vol 1. is just as Flashy, pun intended. The site puts different eras of Jay’s life to music. As you browse through each one, [...]
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