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: Karrine Steffans. 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 [...]

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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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The Money Trail 6-27-2008

San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners. http://www.seesmic.com

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BET Awards ‘08 distributes WebTools as free ads

BET Webtools is a self-serve, grab-tool utility providing easy copy and paste functionality to help you obtain graphic elements. For banners, select the size that best fits your design. Once you’ve made a selection, “Copy” the related HTML below the banner. “Paste” the code in the appropriate location within your Website. Repeat for related captions. Hmmmm.  [...]

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The Death of the Microsite

Do you remember when Tamayra Gray was up-and coming? “A new, musical mini-version of Romeo and Juliet, directed by super-hot fashion photographer David LaChapelle is available for viewing online, only at the H&M website. Featuring Mary J. Blige, “American Idol” staring Tamyra Gray, and up-and coming dancer Gus Carr, the six-minute film was launched [...]

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