Alicia Keys’ Album Release Meets MySpace Hack
Today is the official release of Alicia Keys As I Am, and I must say that the camp behind her at J Records had a mean widget game leading up to this day. The widget includes news updates, video clips of Alicia in the studio, and videos uploaded by fans. The widget comes with instructions [...]
Read MoreOne Laptop per Child
One laptop per child is attempting to supply each school aged child in an underdeveloped country with an XO Laptop. Between November 12th and November 26th is you purchase and donate 1 laptop ($399) you will receive 1 laptop to give to a child in your life. What I find particularly interesting about this laptop [...]
Read MoreZoopy
Mix together elements of YouTube, Flickr and MySpace and you’ve got Zoopy, a social networking site for the country of South Africa. Starting back in March 2007, the site bases its operations off the premise of sharing photos and video for your network of friends, or even complete strangers. Recently introduced to the site is [...]
Read MoreGangsta Post Halloween Treat
Natasha over at black celebrity gossip site Young, Black & Fabulous has a giveaway for American Gangster that ends November 7th. I am not into contests much but what I did see when I visited the site was the slick embedded interactive ad. Advertising sure has come along way and this type of ad format is [...]
Read MoreHip-Hop 2.0: Soulja Boy Is A Web 2.0 Wonder
I’ve been talking about this Soulja Boy Web phenomenon every moment I get — on my own blog, in blog comments, in face-to-face conversations. So of course it was funny today, when perusing my Google Reader for coverage of Pop!Tech and Web 2.0 Summit (mainly because I missed not actually having been there), that I [...]
Read MoreHip-Hop 2.0: XXL To Launch A Social Network
With AllHipHop boasting one of the largest online hip-hop communities, because of the activity in its forums, I kind of expected that the online publisher would be the first out of the gate to launch a social network. And while there are may other hip-hop related social networks out there (many of which I’ll be [...]
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