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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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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GlobalGrind Facebook App

The GlobalGrind Facebook app is pretty sweet I must admit. Essentially, what this app does is make it super easy for a GlobalGrind user with a Facebook account to access and utilize GlobalGrind within the Facebook framework. Adding the GlobalGrind Facebook app was simple and took no time at all. When you are logged in [...]

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Global Grinds Leverages Other Platforms

Global Grind, the user submitted social media site for the hip hop community, announced the release of new tools and features to help extend their reach across multiple platforms. Global Grind recently unveiled a new Facebook application that allows users to discover, collect, and share content with their Facebook friends, directly from Facebook. Global Grind [...]

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