Sherri McDonald

This week’s Peeps of the Web profiles Sherri McDonald, Internet Entrepreneur and Interactive Project Manager at Ketchum.  Sherri is a self taught social networking and web design expert, with a very unorthodox educational background. Sherri also runs her own hair care site and will be launching a brand new venture in next year. Enjoy! (8:11:55 PM) [...]

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Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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Does my cable box Plaxo too?

+ We love to network online, and we love cable TV, but what the hell does the nation’s largest cable company want with a social networking tool? The acquisition of Plaxo by Comcast, could quite possibly revolutionize the effort to converge the digital living room with the PC.

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Social Networking Wars

Super news takes a very funny look at the battle of the social networks. Discovered via Baratunde

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Clutch Magazine’s 1st Annual Blog Academy

So if you haven’t heard yet Clutch Magazine is having their 1st Annual Blog Academy this summer. Along with others Black Web 2.0 will be partnering with Clutch to share social media tips on how you can succeed online in this Web 2.0 world. The academy will last for 2 months and will [...]

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InteractiveOne’s Web Strategy

There has been lots of buzz around InteractiveOne, a RadioOne company that plans to focus on interactive web media. Many of us have been wondering what exactly is InteractiveOne and what plans does RadioOne have for it? I recently noticed there are actually a few sites out there from InteractiveOne that are either in Beta or [...]

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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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MySpace Latino > MiGente

It looks like MySpace is stepping on to CCI’s turf. For those who don’t know about CCI, it’s Community Connect, the parent company behind ethnic community sites like BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAvenue.com, as well as a GLBT site and faith-based site. MS’s parent, News Corp., must be smelling all that immigrant money. (J/K) But [...]

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