The Search For Ms. Carter: Social Media Marketing Fail?

What do you get when you mix an urban men’s magazine, the best rapper alive and YouTube? A social media-infused contest for the bleeding edge female hip hop fan. It looks as though King Magazine and Lil Wayne have teamed up to create an internet contest: The Search For Miss Carter. The contest instructions, posted on [...]

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PBS Offers ‘Tavis Smiley’ on iPhone

While on my regular internet travels I came upon the iPhone-optimized website for Tavis Smiley. It looks like the folks over at PBS have made available a mini-version of their regular Tavis Smiley website. The mobile site looks clean and well-designed for the iPhone. It provides you with the week’s schedule of guests appearing on the [...]

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Celebrities Using Twitter Revisited

Britney Spears joined Twitter earlier this week and it sent quite a ripple in the world of web/tech nerds. Some argue that Britney’s presence on Twitter signifies the beginning of the popular miroblogging site going mainstream. We argued this previously, when we noticed Karrine Stephans was not only on Twitter, but avidly promoting it to [...]

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What Everybody Ought to Know About The New Facebook Design

I’ve been playing around with the new Facebook layout a lot this week, and while I initially did not like it, I think it’s slowly growing on me. Last week, Facebook announced that the new layout was available to every user, if they logged into a new location. Take a look for yourself by logging [...]

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Karrine Steffans Joins Twitter?

Just when you thought Twitter was falling off due to its technical difficulties, Twitter gets a new kid on the block: Karrine Steffans. Karrine Steffans recently joined Twitter, and instead of quietly setting up an account, it appears as though she executed a pub stint by announcing her Twitter membership on her website. I suspect she also [...]

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