VIBE Shuts Down Today

Global Grind and Gawker are reporting from unconfirmed sources that VIBE Magazine is shutting down today, an announcement is reportedly expected at 2pm today.  You may remember just a few weeks ago our podcast with Danyel Smith who was recently promoted to Chief Content Office of Vibe Media Group.  Vibe also recently announced a new [...]

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BET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash

Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards.  I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending topics on Twitter.  They even used the awards show [...]

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Change is Good

Heraclitus said, “The only constant in life is change”, and with so much going on in the world today, many of us have become quite familiar with it.  Sometimes we associate dramatic change with anxiety, frustration, and other less desirable emotions, but what we’ve decided to do here at Black Web 2.0 is learn to [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo Should Think Outside-the-Box

The Web 2.0 Expo NYC has rolled back around this year but has an interesting new theme with it:  The Power of Less. The Power of Less doesn’t just mean making do with fewer staff and a smaller budget. It means that constraints drive creativity, whether in business models, design paradigms, or platforms. It means the [...]

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EcoTextSmart Offers Free Ad-Based Service

Back in January we covered Atlanta based Salient Mobility’s product EcoTextSmart.  Simply said it allows publishers to set-up text based campaigns such as Text2Win, Text2Vote, and even appointment based reminders via Text. Yesterday the company announced the release of its Ad-based version of EcoTextSmart. The new Ad-based version is offered to business account users as Publishers, [...]

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GreetBeatz.com Makes Commissioned Music Easy

It is always great to see what start-ups are doing, especially when we tend to get bogged down with everything else in the world and think we have seen just about every idea or start-up there is. GreetBeatz is a refreshing change. Based in the Valley and started by ‘05 Standford grads Ashvin [...]

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Sports Aggregator FireExit Alpha Invites

There are so many places to find the latest information about your favorite sports teams, but no really easy way to do it.  Currently you have to either browse or search your favorite news sources for the latest chatter about you favorite teams or visit a start-up we just featured called ARHE that focuses on [...]

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Google Profile might be worth it…if you have an Alias

I took the time to create a profile just to experience what Google profile was really offering and think it has some real benefits that other profiles just don’t offer. The profile is simple and boasts some interesting things you can add to the profile in terms of content.  The differentiator and item of [...]

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Facebook’s Wide Open

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is set to announce that they will be opening up their API to include user-contributed information for third-party developers. Developers will now be granted –with users’ permission– the ability to access and build sites and services using Facebook user’s notes, comments, and of course the most compelling  photos, [...]

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Let Me Google that for You

One of the most annoying things is someone pinging me and asking me a question whose answer is readily available to any and everyone who has access to a search engine; especially Google.  I know I’m not alone ;)  So for those of us who have this annoyance and who also have a sense of [...]

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