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Kevin McFall, is a media executive, with deep expertise and knowledge of digital product management and business development. Currently serving as President of Red Clay Digital, a consultancy providing guidance to company’s seeking to leverage online, mobile and other digital platforms for partnerships, customer acquisition and engagement. Prior to his current role, Kevin was co-founder and Vice President of Products & Content for RushmoreDrive.com a division of IAC. Prior to joining IAC, Kevin led digital product & affiliate programs for Zap2it.com TV & Movie guidance service (Tribune Company) as the Director of Products & Partnerships. His career has also positively impacted the American Bar Association, Sara Lee & Digital Equipment Corporations. Kevin is the immediate past president of the University of Illinois at Urbana’s Black Alumni Network, and is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association. Kevin currently serves on the Urbana Campus Alumni Advisory Board & on the board of the Inner City Computer Stars (icstars.org) Foundation. Kevin is an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity & several other national professional associations including the Minority Media Executives, Black MBAs, & NAMIC. Kevin earned an MBA from the Sperling School of Business at the University of Phoenix, and a B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics, from the University of Illinois at Champaign.

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iPhone Deja Vu – The 3G activation saga

Monday, July 14, 2008

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Friday July 11th marked the highly anticipated release of the iPhone 3G and the official introduction of the App store on the iphone and on iTunes. If you recall, when the iPhone was first introduced, the 3rd party activation service which required coordination with iTunes and AT&T failed miserably.  Well fast-forward a year later to [...]

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New owners of Soul Train bring along new digital distribution opportunities as well

Monday, June 23, 2008

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The American iconic TV program Soul Train, which ceased production in 2006 has been sold to L.A. based Mad Vision Entertainment and the private equity firm Intermedia Partners. This is a hell of a deal in my mind, as there is a tremendous opportunity to resuscitate the legendary Soul Train franchise which includes the longest [...]

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Does my cable box Plaxo too?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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+ We love to network online, and we love cable TV, but what the hell does the nation’s largest cable company want with a social networking tool? The acquisition of Plaxo by Comcast, could quite possibly revolutionize the effort to converge the digital living room with the PC.

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Jay-Z & The ‘Nation’ Doin’ the Damn Thing

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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Are you ready for the music industry revolution? Jay-Z and LiveNation are ready to bring it to you with the announcement of what is being billed as the largest music contract ever awarded at $150 Million. But that is only half the story. The other half is that they are formulating a new distribution and [...]

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The AOL Right Hook – They buy Bebo!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Does anyone out there know what in the digital world is AOL trying to do? In a post Microsoft-Yahoo merger-Google dominated world, this is a vital question. Let’s look a bit at the AOL milestones as of late. They swapped Platform A execs in and out last week, this week they buy Bebo, last year they [...]

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LinkedIn with curb appeal

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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Who said the housing slump couldn’t be overcome with a new coat of paint? Well the same theory applies to your favorite professional networking site. The jury may still be out on this, but the LinkedIn home page is in Beta test with a completely new coat of paint, with one or two new upgrades [...]

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Feeling Blu: The Death of the HD DVD (R.I.P. 2005 – 2008)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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The battle has been won. To the victors, in this case Sony, go the spoils. Toshiba this week announced it was pulling the plug on it’s HD DVD format which had been embattled against Sony’s Blu-Ray HD format. The tipping point seems to have been last month’s abandonment of the HD format by Warner Bros. Entertainment, [...]

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