$10 Million Won’t Make Honey Any Sweeter For Investors
I’m having a hard time figuring out what makes the new online version of Honey magazine worth a $10 million dollar investment. Sure, the re-emergence of Honey in an online only format will no doubt be popular among fans of the old print edition and those new to the Honey brand. Sahara Media has the [...]
Read MoreWho’s the HBCU Top Dawg?
In business as is in life there are early bloomers and there are late comers. When it comes to Web 2.0, as companies continue to define themselves and better understand how to monetize their efforts (zero revenue websites are no longer the rage), early bloomers are much better prepared to further grab market share and [...]
Read MoreTweetWorks Focuses Twitter on The Conversations
Tweetworks is another service that works on top of Twitter to try and make it just a little more useful for you. If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with a group of people on Twitter, you may already know how hard it can be. There is a reply feature on Twitter, but you [...]
Read MoreQ&A: Lauri Lyons, First black female Getty Photog
As traditional and new media become more and more intertwined it is always interesting to speak to people who are involved with the more traditional medias about their methods, to see how they differ from those that are purely new media based and how they see the intersection of traditional and new media. We were [...]
Read MoreRussell Simmons and Navarrow Wright on News and Notes
Farai Chideya of NPR’s News and Notes sat down with Global Grind’s CEO Navarrow Wright and principal investor Russell Simmons to dicuss Politics, and the future of social media networking. Russell had some wonderful thoughts on the urban space and its influence on the world. I’m sure Navarrow had some great thoughts too, but Russell [...]
Read MoreFacebook Applications Get ‘Made’ with the Application Verification Program
This afternoon Facebook announced the Application Verification Program (AVP), a welcomed effort to increase the quality of Facebook applications and perhaps one of a few early moves to monetize the platform. One of the concerns surrounding the Facebook Platform and platforms of other social networks is the proliferation of perfectly useless applications with only a [...]
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