Digital Urbanites Panel @SxSW
Join in to watch our panel “Digital Urbanites: How to Become Part of the New Social Capital” live from South by Southwest at 6pm EST. Panelist include Wayne Sutton, Social Media Strategist; Theda Saniford, CEO of Theda Dotcom; Navarrow Wright, Co-founder of Global Grind; James Andrews, VP Ketchum.
Read MoreBebo: Yet Another Service Biting FriendFeed’s Style
After purchasing both the Bebo social network and the SocialThing data aggregator last year, AOL’s strategy to leverage and merge these services is beginning to become apparent. Both Facebook and MySpace, currently the most popular social networking sites, have already jumped on the lifestreaming bandwagon. For FriendFeed fans, it’s hard to miss the fact that [...]
Read MoreSmooth Mag Blog Struggles
The most popular Black men’s magazines have been having a comparatively hard time adjusting online. King-mag.com and smoothmag.com have both seen their total traffic in terms of unique visitors per month drop to about half of what it was a year ago. Much like in the print world, that has left Smooth as an also-ran [...]
Read MoreClutch Deal Expands Partnership, Explores Larger Online Marketspace
On the eve of this year’s digital reincarnation of popular African-American woman’s magazines Honey and Sister 2 Sister, Elemental Interactive invested an undisclosed amount in Clutch Magazine in exchange for minority ownership. Details on the amount of money and equity exchanged have not been released. The deal looks more like a next step in the [...]
Read MoreHoney’s Sweet New Redesign
Nokware talked last month about Honey Magazine’s latest incarnation as a web-only publication with a substantial $10 million investment behind it. The site recently went live and is currently in beta. The new Honey Magazine site design shuns the familiar brown and orange of previous site designs and went for an edgier, darker look with [...]
Read MoreThe BW20 Stimulus Plan
President Obama has taken swift action to turn around America’s steep economic downturn by wasting no time and moving an $820 billion stimulus package proposal through congress. Still, a little more scrutiny could have been used in deciding where the money will and will not be spent. How is $50 million dollars in grants to [...]
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