NAACPConnect Creates New Project “Digital Collective” to Help Youth Gain Multimedia Skills
In Nov. 2011, The NAACP launched its own social network, NAACPConnect. The networking site while giving members a way to connect with each other, also offers written and multimedia content, skills training, micro-mentoring aimed at educational and professional development. To compliment that they have launched a new project called NAACPConnect Digital Collective. Those accepted into the [...]
Read MoreTheRoot.com Seeking Questions via Social Media for Livestream Q&A at the White House
Poverty and unemployment are only two out of many issues America faces, especially within the black community. The White House will host a special “Open for Questions” event moderated by The Root to address the American Jobs Act and the steps they have to take to help more Americans reach the middle class. During a [...]
Read MoreT-Mobile Bobsled Gives Facebook Users Free Mobile and Land Line Calls
Watch out Skype, T-Mobile Bobsled is sliding into your VoIP territory. The service — which allows you to voice call yourFacebook friends from anywhere in the world — now lets you make free calls to those same friends’ mobile and landline numbers in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, right from within your browser. You can [...]
Read MoreThe Power of Social Media Couldn’t Save Troy Davis’s Life
The fight came to an end after the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia last night. People protested right up until there was word that U.S. Supreme Court denied his last appeal. Along with protest at the White House, Supreme Court, among other places around the world, people protested online. A clear way to reach [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-9-2011
Google Acquires Zagat Google has acquired Zagat, a well-established recommendations and reviews company which operates in 13 categories and more than 100 cities. Google cites that Zagat’s user surveys were one of the earliest forms of user-generated content and the nature of their guides were “mobile” before “mobile” meant electronics. Zagat will bolster Google’s local [...]
Read MoreTwitter Takes Another Step On Its Road To Killing TwitPic And Yfrog
Twitter has unveiled its photo upload API, which lets third-party developers add Twitter’s own photo-upload service to their apps, VentureBeat reports. Twitter has been “filling holes” on its platform, taking control of mobile apps, adding link-shortening and now photo uploading, to the detriment of third-party apps who were doing these things. This is to provide a [...]
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