Russell Simmons and Navarrow Wright on News and Notes

Farai Chideya of NPR’s News and Notes sat down with Global Grind’s CEO Navarrow Wright and principal investor Russell Simmons to dicuss Politics, and the future of social media networking. Russell had some wonderful thoughts on the urban space and its influence on the world. I’m sure Navarrow had some great thoughts too, but Russell [...]

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4 Ways to Find News Relevant to You

Most blogs and websites seem to be geared towards technology, making money, and blogging. There is definitely a site out there that covers the things you want to read about (assuming I didn’t cover those things already), but how do you find it? We mostly rely on word-of-mouth to find the best sites. Google and [...]

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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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Global Grind Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

Global Grind, teams up with Smart Water to host four exclusive VIP events celebrating the one-year anniversary of Global Grind’s launch, in conjunction with Russell Simmons birthday (Oct. 4th). Events will take place in select cites with event goers getting an exclusive first look at Global Grind’s new site features. The first event took place Monday, [...]

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Global Grind answers questions

Lately there has been lots of speculation and questions about Global Grind’s latest redesign. Well, the folks over at Global Grind have actually been watching the exchanges. CEO Navarrow Wright contacted me to address some of the speculation and to clarify some things about what they are doing. I think I covered [...]

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Global Grind Facelift - Round 3

Last week Global Grind launched yet another redesign/facelift I am guessing to help improve their user experience.  The design and layout is noticeably different, the new look masks the Digg like interface and functionality into a more editorial friendly design, programming submissions as editorial content.  What is also noticeably different is that the navigation is [...]

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Global Grind Cleans Up

Yesterday Global Grind cleaned up its interface making the content on the site easier to navigate.  They also stepped up their widget game a bit with the release of 2 additional widgets that can be found in a users profile.  The widgets allow a user to syndicate content that they have submitted on Global Grind [...]

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GlobalGrind to Launch Hip-Hop Network with Glam

There’s been big news for Glam Media lately: It acquired Monetise Ltd, an online media sales company based in the UK. It formed a partnership with Brightcove to boost video content for Glam’s network. Expanded to include video distribution across its network of sites, in partnership with Sony BMG, E! Online, Lifetime Networks, and TV Guide Broadband. And it’s [...]

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What if GlobalGrind fails?

The Internet has been buzzing about the possible demise of Global Grind, the Digg-like Social bookmarking site targeting an urban audience. It’s unclear whether or not the rumors will be confirmed, but as one of only a few venture capitalist funded websites targeting an urban niche, I wonder what impact Global Grind’s failure could have [...]

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Global Grinds Leverages Other Platforms

Global Grind, the user submitted social media site for the hip hop community, announced the release of new tools and features to help extend their reach across multiple platforms. Global Grind recently unveiled a new Facebook application that allows users to discover, collect, and share content with their Facebook friends, directly from Facebook. Global Grind [...]

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