Usual Suspects Absent From the iPad Revolution
The iPad launch on April 3rd will be a legendary day for the media world. The 240k reported pre-orders have already proven that, though there is still the chance that the iPad won’t live up to the hype and sell five million units in its first year, it’s highly unlikely. One reason is that the [...]
Read More2010 Web Predicitions in Black
I can’t believe we are going into 2010 already. It seems like just yesterday when we were making predictions for 2008 and 2009. This past year has been really exciting and there have been clear changes in how business on the web is being done. As we try to keep up with what’s going on in the space here are some things to look out for in 2010:
Read MoreBlack Media, Instead of Mimicking Blogs Why not just Acquire?
As of late we’ve seen so many traditional Black/Urban Media companies either redesign as blogs, create blog properties as part of their holdings, or transform their content channels into blogs. In nearly every case that I’ve seen this happen not one company has been able to knock it out of the park. In many cases [...]
Read MoreBET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash
Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards. I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending topics on Twitter. They even used the awards show [...]
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