2011: The Year of Black Digital Domination
Was 2011 the year of Black digital domination? From “Black Twitter” to black tech entrepreneurship, 2011 was the year that black influence on all things digital blew into the mainstream. Digital events like the fight to prevent Troy Davis’ execution and CNN’sBlack in America also confirmed that the black “digital divide” could no longer be ignored. President Barack [...]
Read MoreRihanna Dominated Facebook in 2011
According to Facebook’s 2011 Memology report , Rihanna took over the social network this year, not literally. But she did come in No. 1 under the music category for most popular page, meaning she was “liked” the most out of all other artist pages. In addition, her song “We Found Love” off her latest Talk that Talk album, was [...]
Read MoreOp-Ed: Keeping Up With Technology Isn’t Easy!
I’m sure a lot of people have seen the new Best Buy commercial about their new Buy Back Program due to technology moving so quickly. It’s actually pretty hilarious, showing people purchasing new technology devices such as phones, televisions, and laptops and then right after see advertisements for more updated versions. This commericial is evidence; there is [...]
Read More35 Percent of Blacks Watch TV Online, 13 Percent Consider Cancelling Cable
As African Americans continue to bridge the disparity in broadband usage and access, we’ve witnessed a number of trends that show that not only are we adopting technology, we’re beginning to dominate in usage. Blacks currently outpace other ethnic groups in mobile phone usage according to the Pew Report and now it seems online television [...]
Read MorePew Report: African Americans Outpace Whites in Mobile Phone, App Usage
As the discussion on net neutrality and equal access to high-speed Internet continues, minorities continue to make strides in closing the digital divide. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, minorities are not only gaining access to the Web, we’re doing it without necessarily having to access a desktop or a laptop. When [...]
Read MoreDigital Marco Polo: Location-Based Services for Your Business
Location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and MyTown are generating the same buzz that Twitter created two years ago when it was being touted as the “next big thing” in social media and online marketing. Just like “tweet it and they will come” was a falsehood told to many business owners, creating an effective location-based [...]
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