Interactive One Launches BlackPlanet NEXT A New Social Web and Mobile Experience
Last week I had a chance to see a demo of BlackPlanet NEXT and one of the first things that came to my mind was this is not your old school social network. Showing my age, I was one of the old BlackPlanet users from the early 2000s . Before Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, and [...]
Read MoreFans React to Whitney Houston’s Death on Pinterest
Twitter broke the sad news of singer Whitney Houston’s death this weekend. Many fans and celebrity friends of the superstar showed their love and reactions via the social network too. But Twitter isn’t the only place where fans reacted on the web. They also took to fairly new social sharing site, Pinterest. Many have pinned [...]
Read MoreOnline 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 [...]
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