Alicia Keys Leads Star-Studded Social Networking Fast for Charity
Alicia Keys has been showing off her tech savvy in the past year. First she partnered with Monster.com in search for a head blogger for her new IAAS site. Next, she collaboed with software instrument company, Native Instruments to release her new piano software. Now the R&B singer will be using social media to raise money [...]
Read MoreTime Inc. Peers into Digital Crystal Ball and Future Looks Good
A little taste of where magazines could be headed in the future, imagine what this technology could do for Sports Illustrated’s sister publication Essence.
Read MoreBlack 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.
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