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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Diddy + Politics

You are living under a rock if you don’t know the presidential election is this Tuesday! Both presidential candidates have campaigned over the last couple of years, but I can say that Barack Obama has extended his reach online way further than John McCain. In a previous posts, we’ve shared the external channels where Barack [...]

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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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Which MC has Online Swag?

One of the hottest songs out, Swagger Like Us, features four of the hottest MCs in the game: T.I., Lil Wayne, Jay Z, and Kayne West. In today’s music industry, it is absolutely necessary to connect with your fans on all online destinations. Taking an analysis of these four men, I found they each have [...]

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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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Lil Wayne lands a Blog on ESPN

First Lil Wayne tries his luck with Twitter, then a brief foray in video blogging, now the multi-platinum artist lands a deal to write a series of blogs for ESPN The Magazine. If Weezy’s first post is an indication of the series, expect to see a mixture of his sports analysis, fantasy football tips, and [...]

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Q-Tip Shweets on Spin

For the digeratti of us all up in Tweetspace, that’s Twitter for those not in the know, Q-Tip of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest just unleashed a tweetstorm on SPIN magazine over there. And no, I couldn’t find a better way to capture “Shits on Spin,” and converging shits with tweets — well it [...]

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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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The T-Pain Effect

Grammy Award-Winning singer, song writer, and producer T-Pain recently launched his much anticipated full digital independent record label Nappy Boy Digital. The label’s mission is to create a direct artist to consumer connection without the constraints of the traditional major labels. Nappy Boy Digital is an obvious next step for record labels who may have [...]

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Always On Hollywood 08

The Always on Hollywood event went off big as usual. There were tons of VC’s and institutional bankers there courting the business of the young, and the fresh (hot media start ups). There were quite a few impressive starts up offering their pitches for rooms full of venture capitalist ready to wage their calculated bets on [...]

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