Online Digital Filmmaker Showcase Launches Focusing on the African Diaspora
Shadow and Act , a blog turned online film competition with focus on black cinema through the African Diaspora launched its third round of the Shadow and Act Digital Filmmaker showcase this week. The Shadow and Act Digital Filmmaker Showcase is an online film competition designed to make filmmakers of color that are creating original, artistically [...]
Read MoreViddy Launches T-Pain Powered Mobile Production Pack
Mobile social video application, Viddy is working with more artists. We first introduced you to the app that enables users to shoot and share 15-second video clips in Sept. 2011 when Snoop Dogg launched a video editing app, and now T-Pain is stepping into the mobile production space too. Artist T-Pain announced earlier this week [...]
Read MoreAngela Talks Diversity and Technology on Social Jumpstart TV
Our own, Angela Benton talks with Mike Wolpert about diversity and technology on Social Jumpstart TV. She talks about how and why she created the NewMe Accelerator to bring minority tech entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. She talks in detail about how the accelerator works and the what the participants have taken away from the experience. [...]
Read MoreQ&A Social Site for African-Americans EbonyQA.com to Launch in Beta
EbonyQA.com, the Q&A social connecting site for African-Americans to post and answer questions unique to their own community will be launching in beta soon. The site is very similar to Quora.com, but focuses specifically on African-American issues. EbonyQA will connect users with hard to find questions and answers unique to the black community. Users will [...]
Read MoreRihanna Becomes the Most-Viewed Female Artist on YouTube
Rihanna is setting digital records. Just a few weeks ago she was named the top-selling digital artist in music history, having over 47.5 million digital downloads and now she is the most-viewed female artist on the biggest video sharing site, YouTube. According to the Digital Journal, Rihanna currently has 2,068,076,591 YouTube views, surpassing pop star Lady Gaga. [...]
Read MoreLL Cool J Promotes His Music Social Network Boomdizzle at CES
More artists are getting into the social network frenzy, including LL Cool J. LL Cool J demoed his social network, Boomdizzle at CES on Tuesday. Boomdizzle encourages musicians to collaborate and network on various projects through the web. LL Cool J demoed how those tools would work at CES and played a track he created with Ne-Yo. According to [...]
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