Google Gets Pimped and Why You Should Care

Google has been at it again. Dropping new features left and right. We recently talked about the Gmail Labs feature and how you could use it to get stuff done. Now, we’ll walk through a few additional features and see how they can be useful. Gmail Themes This has been one of the most exciting features recently [...]

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Tweetsville vs. Twittelator

vs. Yesterday the twitter community and a few other main stream blogs were a buzz about a brand new twitter iPhone application called Tweetsville. Tweetsville is apart of the Tapulous family of iPhone applications and packs some awesome features such as built in search.twitter.com trends, search and the ability to show 200 tweets [...]

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Obama, Electoral ‘08 & Slate Apps for tracking the Election

Want to track the Elections on your iPhone? Well BlackWeb2.0 can show you how. We take a look at three iPhone applications that can keep you up-to-date with the latest polls, pictures and who’s winning each in state. We review the Obama ‘08, Slate and the Electora ‘08 iPhone applications. Obama, Electoral ‘08 & Slate Apps [...]

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Code Black Enterprises Launches Interactive Division

Ever hoped for a Black Hulu? Imagine being able to stream comedy acts like Steve Harvey’s Still Trippin or Katt Williams’ Pimp Chronicles to get you through a long day of work. Or maybe you’re, like me, not satisfied with the selection of Black Films offered online. Well look no further. The nations’ largest supplier [...]

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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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ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”

Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.

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Maybe 50 Cent Gets Social Media After All

Back in April, on RushmoreDrive, I wrote What Does 50 Cent Know About Social Media?. I didn’t have the space to do a real analysis of the efforts there, but there are other sites that have dug in a little deeper, such as ReadWriteWeb and even the Tech Observer blog over at Portfolio in 50 [...]

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Black Video Stars

It seemed as if the only way to get your face/content on the Tube was to either live in Los Angeles, join the cast of a reality TV show, or know someone in the industry, but as the popularity of online video increases (up 66% over last year according to ComScore) the more people are [...]

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