WordPress Launches WordAds to Help You Make Money From Your Blog
WordPress.com recently announced a partnership with advertising giant Federated Media. Now that’s borne fruit for the hosted service’s users – you could soon be able to carry ads on your blog, and take a share of the revenue. WordAds, announced today on the WordPress.com blog, won’t be open to everyone. Carrying premium display ads from known brands, the service [...]
Read MorePresident Obama Creates a Tumblr, Follow Him
While everyone is in campaign mode, the president is finding every innovative way to connect with the country for current issues and for next year’s election. His most recent initiative is a Tumblr blog. Yup, President Obama isn’t just blogging from the White House page, he is now getting up, close, and personal by creating [...]
Read MoreInsideBW: Doug Williams Discussing Deals in Silicon Valley [PHOTO]
Doug Williams @Twitter’s Biz Dev talking about doing deals in the Valley… Check out more exciting insider exclusives at InsideBW
Read MoreConfessions of a Life-Long Entrepreneur from Russell Simmons
On Monday, I will be delivering the opening keynote address at the Urban Entrepreneurship Summit at Rutgers Business School in Newark, which is being co-hosted by the White House. It is a pleasure to work closely with this great president and his administration to support private/public relationships like this one. At the summit, I will [...]
Read MoreInside Look at MediaTakeOut.com
From the outside-in, MediaTakeOut.com looks a little different than most urban entertainment blogs. But Fred Mwangaguhunga, the website’s founder, says the site was originally created to (and still is) primarily run as a business that fills a void in the online media marketspace. “It’s not an extension of personality, it’s not a hobby, it’s not [...]
Read MorePolitical Blogging After Obama
Black Web 2.0 asked five practicing experts what they thought black political blogs will look like now that Barack has moved on from promising candidate and president elect to an official appointment to the highest office in the land. The responses were surprisingly non-uniform, but did have one theme in common… Black bloggers and online [...]
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