Twubs Creates Hubs Around Hashtags
Twubs gives you the ability to see what is happening around specific Twitter hashtags. We talked about a similar service a while back called Tinker. Twubs sounds pretty simple, but I was pleasantly surprised when I actually went to investigate. Hashtags are a pretty important part of Twitter. There are no actual groups or threads built into [...]
Read MoreFacebook’s Wide Open
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is set to announce that they will be opening up their API to include user-contributed information for third-party developers. Developers will now be granted –with users’ permission– the ability to access and build sites and services using Facebook user’s notes, comments, and of course the most compelling photos, [...]
Read MoreJet Magazine Crafts Web Strategy
For months media analysts, journalists, and the black community have been speculating the fate of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of seminal magazines, Ebony and Jet. It’s no secret that the company like many other publications have been teetering on the brink of collapse due to decline in ad pages and subscriptions as well as increasing [...]
Read MoreYouTube Makes it That Much Easier To Cut Off Cable
As if I didn’t already have enough reasons to cancel my cable, YouTube has activated their Shows feature. Hulu is the place you go to catch new episodes of stuff like Southland, Life, and Lie To Me. Most, but definitely not all, of your favorite shows are freely available to watch on Hulu. Now, YouTube [...]
Read MoreFairtilizer is The Do It Yourself Music Club
I originally learned about Fairtilizer from Steven Hodson and Sarah Perez back in September. I’ve been playing with the service on and off, using it to find new music as well as trying to see if I wanted to make it the home for my own music. I think Sarah put it best in her post [...]
Read MoreCelebrities, Ghostwriters & Twitter—Going Too Far?
Actor Hugh Jackman is the latest celeb to get caught up in an internet scandal when he was forced to admit that he uses staff for his Twitter updates after one of them got the name of the Sydney Opera House wrong in a post about his lunch plans. Just a few years into the [...]
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