247sports.com Brings All Access To Your Favorite Team
by Amani
A new sports centered website has launched in the past few weeks and it will bring you closer than ever to your favorite college and professional sports teams. 247sports.com will seek to blend local and team-based affinity sites with social media and mobile technology. This new website is being launched by Shannon Terry and Bobby Burton who are the former creators of the popular website rivals.com. While sharing a few similarities to rivals.com, 247sports.com is focusing more on an owned-and-operated model. Plans call for hiring experienced, known talent in local communities — in many cases, veteran newspaper writers — and using that talent to start sites from scratch. Find out more details on 247sports.com inside.
Read MoreHP Envy 14 Leaves the Competition Seeing Green
by Sherri L. Smith
HP continues to roll out the hot tech. The latest piece of hardware we got our hands on was the HP Envy 14. Sleek, powerful, and loaded with features, if you’re looking for a solid machine with an accessible price point, the Envy might be your machine. Aesthetically speaking, it’s a stunner. The silver and black motif [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-3-2010
by rahsheen
The New Digg Is Alive and Kicking
The majority of the Digg community has been actively revolting against the new Digg now that it has opened up. While there have been reports of instability, it seems the primary concern is with certain missing features. What’s interesting about that is that these are the very same features [...]
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Using Lists to Organize Facebook and Twitter
by anjuan
As a reader of Black Web 2.0, you are probably very active on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. As your use of these sites grows, the number of people you are connected to also tends to increase. Eventually, you can find yourself overwhelmed by the volume of information being thrown at you by [...]
Read MoreFacebook Blocks Apple Over Ping
by rahsheen
The launch of the Ping social network at Apple’s recent media event isn’t really something most of us expected. It’s an interesting service which uses your social network to help you discover new music within iTunes. Of course, in order for it to be of any use, you need to have a social graph for [...]
Read MoreThe Official Twitter iPad Uses “Windows” to Deliver the Full Twitter Experience
by Terrance Gaines
Similar to how Flipboard for iPad changed how I view my Twitter and Facebook feeds; the official Twitter for iPad app breathes new life into cruising around Twitter on my iPad…
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