PBS Offers ‘Tavis Smiley’ on iPhone

While on my regular internet travels I came upon the iPhone-optimized website for Tavis Smiley. It looks like the folks over at PBS have made available a mini-version of their regular Tavis Smiley website. The mobile site looks clean and well-designed for the iPhone. It provides you with the week’s schedule of guests appearing on the [...]

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WiMax It!

The name is called XOHM and many of you may still not know who that is BUT you should. XOHM is supplying the U.S. with WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) a wireless data system and Baltimore city (my hometown) became the 1st city in the US to launch this service. Check out the video [...]

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The Original Music Television is Back!

This week MTV launched a new site, MTVmusic.com. The site takes it back to the original MTV - when the acronym stood for Music Television. This website houses only music videos. You will not find the latest in The Hills drama or who got voted off The Island here. This site presents 100% videos including [...]

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How not to launch

So you have secured one of the coolest domains on the planet.  Heck, you can’t even believe it was available! So you snatch it up right away.  You have a great idea for a web product that might exist but isn’t being done correctly, and you are positive you can do it better. You also [...]

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Co-op Keeps Everyone on the Same Page

What Is It Harvest Co-op is a new service that provides groups and businesses with a micro-blogging platform. That’s right, Twitter for business. The service fits into the same niche as the Yammer service, which won TechCrunch50 despite outrage from the tech community. While Yammer will cost you about $1 per month per member of your [...]

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Global Grind Implements Facebook Connect

True story. I had just finished reading Lynne’s comment about the influential Black Tech Evangelists on Twitter and decided to start clicking around in people’s profiles and sites. I stumbled across Miss Theda’s site and found a gem. Director Charles Stone III had updated his international, award-winning ‘Wasssup’ commercial for Bud Light to highlight the need [...]

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Black Enterprise Goes Beta

In my constant quest to make sure OUR sites are up-to-par, I am proud to have stumbled across (with the help of Angela) the new beta site for Black Enterprise magazine. Black Enterprise had a brief article about it on the 15th of October stating their new site would launch today, October 27th. While I hope [...]

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Twitter’s Influence on the Black Web

The use of beepers, 2-ways, sidekicks and other communications devices enabled the black community to organize and get things done like never before. There was a time when rap and hip-hop videos were how you found out about the latest tech gadgets. Communication via mobile messaging has made our world much smaller. Through the use [...]

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Forbes Partners with UnityFirst.com to Distribute Diversity-Focused Business News

Forbes Magazine has teamed up with Unityfirst.com to distribute diversity-focused special advertising sections produced by Forbes Custom Solutions as well as to share other diversity and business news generated by Unity First. The Forbes special sections and other business news about diversity will be shared throughout the UnityFirst.com network, including its quarterly e-magazine and [...]

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Google Android

“Yes I called you a ‘droid’.” If you’re from the real deal, the first images that should come to mind are C3PO or R2D2! But that’s all changed now! Thanks to Google, my Star Wars memories are getting competition from Google’s new mobile operating system called “Android”. How many of you even know the dictionary [...]

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