VIBE Expands Online Offerings

VIBE Media Group is enhancing its online offerings with the launch of two new digital services, Vibe Video and Vibe Mobile as well as a new search syndication partnership between Vibe.com and Rushmore Drive. VIBE has teamed up with some of the top music video providers including Universal, Sony/BMG, and Warner Music to provide more than [...]

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Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

I got my Google Voice invite Friday afternoon and have been fiddling around with it ever since.  Many folks might remember Google’s lackluster (at first) acquisition of GrandCentral.  I signed up for it a while back and gave the number to all of three people who promptly decided to keep dialing my real number.  In [...]

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Tyfish: A Little Late For a Back Up

Not too long I reviewed Cybersynchs , a cell phone back up service. While I loved the idea and thought they definitely could make headway in the future, I knew the one of the biggest challenges would be: how to fend off the competition. Another new service, Tyfish, will ultimately face similar challenges. To be [...]

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iPhone App Review: Yes it’s HammerTime

First Lil Wayne and now MC Hammer comes to your iPhone with his HammerTime iPhone application [iTunes link]. Hammer is fully embracing social media and now mobile media with the release of his new application. The app features links to his social networking dancing site, DanceJam.com, links to post about Hammer, his tweets and it [...]

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The BW20 Stimulus Plan

President Obama has taken swift action to turn around America’s steep economic downturn by wasting no time and moving an $820 billion stimulus package proposal through congress.  Still, a little more scrutiny could have been used in deciding where the money will and will not be spent.  How is $50 million dollars in grants to [...]

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Qmobile, Where Are You?

Qmobile can do better, Qmobile can do more.  Or really, Qmobile would be better off doing more of what they already have been doing.  And the greater Black Web 2.0 community would benefit if they did. Go to qmobile.com and take a look at the clients and partners listed on their website.  See anything interesting?  For [...]

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Going Mobile in 2009

Most sites can’t exist as just plain text. Sites are meant to be dynamic and visually appealing. This doesn’t always work when crossing over to a mobile platform. With mobile browsing increasing, more and more people are asking, “what can I do to optimize my site for mobile browsing?” Luckily, smart [...]

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Top Android Apps

If you’re thinking about how you’ll get through the long lines and “holiday cheer” this weekend while you’re shopping.  We may have found the perfect distractions for you…if you have a G1.  @lynneluvah posted the top apps on Android for November 2008 over at Fast Company on her blog Digital Media Diva, here’s a quick [...]

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CyberSynchs: Your Wireless Phone Finally Went Wireless

If there is a service more prescient than CyberSynchs’, I’d love to see it. Because for 8 of the past 10 days I’ve been without my cell phone and all the important information that resides in it. And for the past 2 days we’ve been getting reacquainted, I’ve done so in mind boggling fashion trying [...]

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Q&A: Marcellus Alexander of Vesta Mobile Solutions

When BusinessWeek posted pictures of the finalist from the 2008 America’s Best Entrepreneurs list, we were very excited to see a photo of three young black men listed as finalist.  Vesta Mobile Solutions was launched in April of 2007 by Brandon Davenport, 24; Elwood Green III, 25; Marcellus Alexander III, 23. As the name [...]

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