
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 [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2008
Lately there has been lots of speculation and questions about Global Grind’s latest redesign. Well, the folks over at Global Grind have actually been watching the exchanges. CEO Navarrow Wright contacted me to address some of the speculation and to clarify some things about what they are doing. I think I covered [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2008
Online advertising rep firm Gorilla Nation recently signed four leading African-American Web properties to its GNMulticultural Vertical giving its advertisers access to 16 million unique visitors per month. The four sites added include, BlackPeopleMeet.com, BlackChristianPeopleMeet.com, BlackWebPortal.com, and Rap-Up.com. “The addition of these new AA properties now brings our GNMulticultural vertical to an estimated 13 million [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2008
Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer at Interactive One, describes the company as a “super start-up” in a quick interview with MarketWatch. Thanks to Theo for the heads-up on this:
Continue reading...11. August 2008
Last week Global Grind launched yet another redesign/facelift I am guessing to help improve their user experience. The design and layout is noticeably different, the new look masks the Digg like interface and functionality into a more editorial friendly design, programming submissions as editorial content. What is also noticeably different is that the navigation is [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2008
Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2008
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2008
So far so good, we are having a great time! Lots of interesting questions, some highlights and topics of interest were: Content Strategy SEO Publishing Frequency Stay tuned for more and some exclusive interviews! See below to view a video wrap-up and also view our presentation w/ SlideShare:
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
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 [...]
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20. August 2008
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