Kanye West Reported to Invest in Turntable.fm Startup
According to Business Insider, Kanye West along with pop artist Lady Gaga are contributing to a $7.5 million financing round, headed up by Union Square Ventures, to the popular startup Turntable.fm, which is currently still in beta. Turntable.fm is a brand new online social network that revolves around listening to music with others, giving thumbs up to tracks [...]
Read MoreWhatsupedia Lets You Share Links with People Just Like You
Whatsupedia is a new service that helps you find and share interesting links based on your specific interests. The site also allows you to comment on and discuss those links. The site works in two different ways: For content discovery, you can drill down into the links based on specific communities or categories. Currently, there [...]
Read MoreFounded at SXSW: gokit Announces New Web Identity Platform
A group of intelligent folks at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival were having a conversation over dinner. The discussion eventually moved to the fact that there isn’t really a customizable platform that an author, athlete, journalist/writer, publisher, PR firm or other brand could use to create an online identity kit. From this [...]
Read MoreCrowdfunding: An Alternative for Minority Startups?
During last month’s Social Media Week 2011 in San Francisco, the most interesting panel I heard was a group of people who had success with crowdfunding projects. The subjects varied wildly–one panelist used it to pay for emergency dental care after he broke a tooth, another used it to set a world record in kiteboarding. [...]
Read MoreEric Broyles: Connecting People with a Purpose
If you read our article about Megree, last week, you already know a little about the inner workings of the site. Megree is a “proprietary social media tool capable of how any two persons are connected.” The site, which is currently in beta, allows users to see the full extent of their social media reach [...]
Read MorePluckshot: A Closer Look
Pluckshot offers you a set of tools that dramatically enhance and socialize the overall photo sharing and viewing experience across the web. We previously featured the creator of Pluckshot here on Black Web 2.0 and now it is time to dig a little deeper into the actual service. The major goal of Pluckshot is to enhance the photo sharing and viewing experience on the web by making it easier to find, organize and discover photos posted to the web by people and entities you care about and are interested in. Let’s take a look at the six different ways to use Pluckshot
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