Global Grind Shake-up, CEO out, on the way to Deadpool?

While working on a follow-up story to the Global Grind celebrity mass that they currently perpetrate as content I came across something much more interesting.  The CEO of the company Navarrow Wright is no longer listed on the company About Us page suggesting that Wright and the company have parted ways. A cached version of [...]

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Rushmore Drive + Global Grind: A Good Match?

Fresh off the heels of their announcement of Russell Simmons as EIC and the addition of several celebrities to their blogging roster, Global Grind has now partnered with IAC’s Rushmore Drive, famous for their Black search engine and unique sorting algorithm for finding Black content on the web. According to a recent press release, the scope [...]

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Is Global Grind’s Star Power Enough?

Global Grind, Hip-Hop’s Digg, has now positioned themselves to be “Hip-Hop’s Huffington Post” according to the new editor in chief Russell Simmons. Russell has enlisted the help of some of his A and B (some C and D) list celebrity friends in music and on screen. Stars including Nia Long, Dame Dash, LL Cool J, [...]

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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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