Online Magazines get Upgraded
One of my favorite online publications, Clutch Magazine, released some nifty social bookmarking upgrades to their site on Valentines Day. While this is just a quick post about this upgrade I think what is notably a larger trend is the attempt publications (online and offline) are making at integrating
Read MoreFeeling Blu: The Death of the HD DVD (R.I.P. 2005 – 2008)
The battle has been won. To the victors, in this case Sony, go the spoils. Toshiba this week announced it was pulling the plug on it’s HD DVD format which had been embattled against Sony’s Blu-Ray HD format. The tipping point seems to have been last month’s abandonment of the HD format by Warner Bros. [...]
Read MoreExclusive Musana.com code for Black Web 2.0 users
We got an exclusive set of beta user accounts for you guys to checkout from Musana, a new music portal set to launch later this year. The portal is built on ASP.NET, and uses the ASP AJAX toolkit for the Javascript UI features. Not sure if they are using Silverlight, but it would be the [...]
Read MoreRumor Mill: Community Connect for Sale?
The New York based Community Connect, parent company of Black Planet, the 5th highest trafficked social-networking site according to Hitwise, may be for sale. Sources close to the deal report that Radio One and Viacom are both possible suitors. With over 16.5 million registered members and close to 80 million page views on Black Planet [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft is making all the right moves, and yes I said Microsoft!
If you have been watching whats going on with Microsoft and Yahoo, the Danger acquisition may have slid by you without notice. This is a substantial asset for Microsoft, and its media partner ecosystem. Let me explain a little further, besides grabbing one of the best media portals (Yahoo), a deal with MTV, and now [...]
Read MoreNew faces @ Black Web 2.0
Krista Summit who currently blogs at http://kristasphere.blogspot.com/ and http://gigamedia.blogspot.com/ Toby Morning aka Urbantech who currently blogs at http://urbantech.bluemonitor.com/ Kevin McFall aka Mega who currently blogs at http://mediamafiatt.blogspot.com/ Jason Tompkins aka jbyrdhaslanded will be producing and hosting a new podcast series here at BW2.0, “The Open Source” so stay tuned for that. I can’t express how [...]
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