Glam Media’s Black Life

Glam Media, the largest women focused website network, has launched a content channel dedicated to Black Women. Glam’s Black Life combines some of Glam’s most popular black women focused content into a channel with groups like; Face & Style, Scoop & Celebrity, and Culture & Lifestyle.

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Using Twitter to increase E-commerce sales

A little while ago I posted about Carol’s Daughter doing a live web chat @ HSN and how all of their efforts in social media is making shopping personal again, only from your computer v.s. and actual personal shopper.  Nordstrom is another example of a retailer being ahead of the curve.  This weekend while I [...]

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Carol’s Daughter and HSN make shopping personal

Carol’s Daughter will host another live web chat today.  However this chat is slightly different than the last.  This time Lisa Price, Carol’s Daughter CEO will be conducting the chat from HSN (Home Shopping Network) and will broadcast it on her site.  Lately I have really been looking at how retail operations are including social [...]

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Weekly Money Trail- July 18, 2008

Seattle Comcast’s The Platform goes social with Chirp Social media start-up Chirp Interactive Inc. has sold some of its assets to Comcast Corp.’s thePlatform just six months after a seed funding. Financial terms were not disclosed, but we can only assume with Comcast deep pockets, and social media on fire, the investors should be singing [...]

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The Black Internet Space: Different but not Really

Diddy TV and the Diddy TV Video blog,  Have you seen it?  HILARIOUS (if not it is embedded above)!!  This last, Diddy Blog #10: Bitchassness Alert Level Orange, was definitely LOL worthy!  Diddy is working YouTube, just like everyone else, creating viral awareness of his brands biggest asset…himself.   PLUS, it looks like he is having [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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Karrine Steffans Joins Twitter?

Just when you thought Twitter was falling off due to its technical difficulties, Twitter gets a new kid on the block: Superhead. Karrine Steffans recently joined Twitter, and instead of quietly setting up an account, it appears as though she executed a pub stint by announcing her Twitter membership on her website. I suspect she also posted [...]

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Pioneers in Online Media Donna Byrd and Omar Wasow Team Up to Redefine Black Media

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Root, an online magazine featuring perspectives from prominent and emerging black thought leaders, today announced that Omar Wasow will be the site’s Product Strategist, joining recently named Publisher Donna Byrd. [...]

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Essence Music Festival Broadcasts Live

Those of us who couldn’t make it to this years Essence Festival we’re in luck!  Essence will broadcast live over the next 3 days from their Music Festival in New Orleans.  Definitely a smart and good look for Essence.  The partnership is with iClips.net and will feature behind the scenes interviews as well as live [...]

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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