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Peeps of the Web: Billy Johnson, Jr.

25. July 2008

This week we spoke with Bill Johnson, Jr. Billy is the Senior Program Director - Urban at Yahoo! Music and was kind enough to take the time out to chat with us about what he does at Yahoo! He also gives some great tips on how to get hired at Yahoo! and how [...]

Carol’s Daughter and HSN make shopping personal

21. July 2008

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Carol’s Daughter will host another live web chat today. However this chat is slightly different than the last. This time Lisa Price, Carol’s Daughter CEO will be conducting the chat from HSN (Home Shopping Network) and will broadcast it on her site. Lately I have really been looking at how retail operations are including social [...]

Weekly Money Trail- July 18, 2008

18. July 2008

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Seattle Comcast’s The Platform goes social with Chirp Social media start-up Chirp Interactive Inc. has sold some of its assets to Comcast Corp.’s thePlatform just six months after a seed funding. Financial terms were not disclosed, but we can only assume with Comcast deep pockets, and social media on fire, the investors should be singing [...]

The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

13. July 2008

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Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”

8. July 2008

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Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.

Essence Music Festival Broadcasts Live

4. July 2008

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Those of us who couldn’t make it to this years Essence Festival we’re in luck! Essence will broadcast live over the next 3 days from their Music Festival in New Orleans. Definitely a smart and good look for Essence. The partnership is with iClips.net and will feature behind the scenes interviews as well as live [...]

Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

4. July 2008

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Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

Where do you fit in the Black America Study?

30. June 2008

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Last week Radio One and Yankelovick (a consumer market research agency) released the “largest national survey of African-Americans” and website that hosts the findings on BlackAmericaStudy.com. It is definitely interesting and gives great insight into Blacks and our relationship with New Media. The study surveyed about 3,400 Blacks and also states what many of you [...]

The Money Trail 6-27-2008

27. June 2008

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San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners. http://www.seesmic.com

BET Awards ‘08 distributes WebTools as free ads

19. June 2008

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BET Webtools is a self-serve, grab-tool utility providing easy copy and paste functionality to help you obtain graphic elements. For banners, select the size that best fits your design. Once you’ve made a selection, “Copy” the related HTML below the banner. “Paste” the code in the appropriate location within your Website. Repeat for related captions. Hmmmm. [...]

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