MC Hammer Announces His Own Search Engine
Watch out Google! MC Hammer may be your next competition. The rapper and tech entrepreneur has announced his two year old project WireDoo, a new search engine focused on “deep search” and relational topics. Hammer announced his new venture at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. What Hammer says sets WireDoo apart from Google [...]
Read MoreNewME Accelerator Deadline for Startup Pitches Ends Friday
Last week was an an amazing week as I attended Where 2.0 location conference in Santa Clara, CA and had a chance to visit the headquarters of the startup world, Silicon Valley (San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto and more. Also during the trip I had chance to visit Citizen Space, Path HQ and catch up with a [...]
Read MoreMC Hammer Says “Let’s Get It Started” to Minority Entrepreneurs
Stanley Burrell, whom you may know as MC Hammer, will be lending advice to minority entrepreneurs in the New Media Entrepreneurship, or NewMe, accelerator program in Silicon Valley this summer. Starting June 16, seven minority-led start-ups from across the country will live in a rented house in Mountain View, CA. They will be able to [...]
Read MoreFlipboard to Feature Oprah Content on Front Page
Starting Thursday, the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com will claim an official “Oprah” section on Flipboard, the iPad app that turns your social stream into a magazine. Based on her Twitter feed, the Oprah section will include content from print sources like O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN, in addition to videos counting down her farewell [...]
Read MoreFlipboard Brings Hammertime to Your iPad
If you’ve still got a pair of parachute pants in your closet, this news might make you dust them off. MC Hammer premiered his latest song yesterday. While that news in itself may not be that notable, the way he premiered it is. Hammer’s newest song “See Her Face” premiered exclusively via Flipboard, an app [...]
Read MoreWhat I Learned about Raising Capital from Ron Conway
Not long ago we posted about a private event in the Valley that we were able to giveaway spaces to a few of you about raising capital. The panel was moderated by Jay Ward and featured Ron Conway, MC Hammer and Brian Patterson. Five slots were held for Black Web 2.0 readers and we gave four away. Wesley Michel was one of the four. He is working on launching a real-time app for local markets. Here is his first person account of the event:
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