Tech Week In Review 10-2-09

Tech Week In Review

Well, a lot of people got invites, but I wasn’t one of them. According to many who actually did get invites, Wave is not all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it’s an awesome service for collaboration, but it’s not something that’s going to replace Twitter, FriendFeed, or Facebook. Seems like it’s just a little too realtime and comes up a little short in providing the user with tools to manage it effectively. Some think Wave is overhyped while others are begging for invites like the crackhead in Menace to Society. Check out Wayne’s Wave screencast . (Wave details)

Trend with Truth: The Real Maia Campbell Story

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Today I looked in the trending topics on Twitter and saw a familiar name, Maia Campbell, the sweet faced, beautifully locked girl from L.L. Cool J’s TV sitcom, In the House. I read hundreds of tweets but only found one kind post asking that folks stop making fun of her and pray instead. I then saw a post containing the link to a video featuring Maia on Youtube.com. I watched as much as possible and decided to tweet what I knew. Maia is schizophrenic; a fact that brought her late mother Bebe Moore Campbell and her father and step-father much anguish.

Trending Topics: Barack’s Birthday and “Birthers” Gift

Happy birthday, President Obama!
While Barack Obama’s birthday is not necessarily the news of the day, he is the news with trending and hot topic placements in Google Trending Topics. As a hot Google topic, the president’s picture as The Joker places in the number 3 position – one above Tiger Wood’s alleged, ahem, flatulence – [...]

WorldstarHipHop.com Takes the Crown

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If there is one type of site that possibly rivals Black gossip and celebrity sites, in terms of numbers, it is Hip-Hop sites. Excluding blogs, sites like AllHipHop.com (AHH) and SOHH.com were the de facto kings. Well, according to new numbers, WorldstarHipHop.com (WHH) seems to have taken the crown.

Looking at the 2008 stats from Compete, [...]

Black Actresses ranked by Google

There was a great post in Rock Candy ranking Hollywood’s Black Leading Ladies using web metrics. The site did an exhaustive search of popular black actresses, and rated them in A-D listed categories determined by the look of their official web destinations and the number of fan sites dedicated to them. Rock Candy’s approach was a great idea, but it forgot to take into consideration one key component when determining a celebrity’s popularity. Search terms! What better measure of popularity than the number of people searching for you in Google!? We decided to take Rock Candy’s study a step further by using Google Trends to measure each actress’s search popularity. Let’s see if our results jive with theirs.