Freemium Your Content with Social Cord (audio)

Podcast Startups

When I first heard about Social Cord (via @waynesutton) the service which had been explained as being similar to “Cable for Social Networks” was immediately intriguing.  I visited the site and even read up on some articles via Venture Beat and Mashable, both of which didn’t do the service any justice (not so much Venture [...]

BlackTwitters.com is like WeFollow…Sorta

News Startups

There have been lots of Twitter applications popping up lately that focus on Blacks on Twitter and offering an easier way to follow them.  As of yet I haven’t really seen anything that integrates with the API, most are just directories that you add yourself to manually (correct me if I’m wrong in the comments).  [...]

Good Time To Start Your Own Internet Company? Maybe

Advertising Capital Startups

You have been laid off from your job. You have had it with corporate America. Now is the perfect time to start your own Internet company, right?

The answer is yes.

And no.

VC investing jumps 61% in Q2 2009 to $5.329B

Capital Startups

Despite the steady beat of news predicting the demise and destruction of the venture capital asset class, could the reports of venture capital’s death be greatly exaggerated? Q2 2009 offers some hope as evidenced by a quarter over quarter bounce in investment by venture capital firms.

Purewire has Web Security on Lock

Black Digerati Conferences Startups

Purewire™ secures business and social interactions on the Web, keeping the Web a place where users can be productive and safe. Purewire is the only vendor that addresses the complete Web security threat landscape, providing unique algorithms and scalable services to protect users from malicious people, places and things on the Web™.