LinkedIn has announced today that they will be opening up full access to their new platform for building the professional web. There is much talk across the blogosphere about how Google, Facebook, and Twitter are building and extending the social web, but not much about the professional web. This is LinkedIn’s niche and, while the [...]
They decided to spend the night in the Spiderman tent. [pic] — http://t.co/7HyZTF4z #
Blogging While Brown conference and the Black Weblog Awards will join forces this year to create a weekend of black social media with a live awards ceremony included. Blogging While Brown is the leading community of Black bloggers and the Black Weblog Awards is one of the oldest celebrations of Black social media excellence. They [...]
President Barack Obama will be holding a special “Facebook Live” townhall event at Facebook’s headquarters with CEO Mark Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg. The event will be live streamed for anyone to watch across the globe. The meeting will be used to discuss “tough choices we must all make in order to put our economy [...]
Lebron is launching an animated web series called “The Lebrons” to provide positive messages to today’s youth. We first covered the show back in January. The show follows the four LeBrons: Kid, Athlete, Business, and Wise as they live in James’s hometown of Akron, Ohio. Much like the cartoons of yesterday, each episode will provide [...]
As if he wasn’t already into just about everything, from music to broadway, Jay-Z has now launched another website called Life + Times. As Forbes puts it, that site is aimed at “gentleman who are discerning enough to buy an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, watch video about Jean-Michel Basquiat, and care about the “internal perspective” [...]
April 18 marks the launch of the African Immigrant Journal (AIJ), the first website dedicated to exploring the experience of millions of African-born immigrants and 1st and 2nd generation Americans of African descent in the United States. The interactive online publication will feature news, profiles, in-depth features, commentary, video, photos, discussion forums, and more. “We view the site [...]
Obama has officially launched his bid for re-election with a short video posted on YouTube. The tw0-minute video is embedded as the centerpiece at BarackObama.com and features average Americans telling us why Obama should be re-elected. Obama himself appears in the video for only a few seconds, but doesn’t actually say anything. The site has [...]
At an event I attended this week, called Alley to the Valley, at the overpriced Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel in Menlo Park, I discussed this subject with 50 very successful women. Half of the attendees were from the east coast, and half were from the west coast. We agreed that the best way of supplying [...]
Twitter Kills the #DickBar Just weeks after Twitter introduced the Quickbar, which was later dubbed the #dickbar as a jab at Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter has decided the “feature” just wasn’t a good idea. The Quickbar inserted trending topics and promoted ads into your tweet-stream in the iPhone app and was immediately met with [...]
The Mavericks have teamed with Qualcomm to add augmented Reality to this year’s playoff tickets. Augmented Reality (AR) joins the real and the virtual to create a futuristic viewing experience. In this case, you’ll be able to play a game by viewing your ticket using your Android’s camera. Single-game tickets for the first two Mavericks [...]
An official Mozy app has made its way to the Apple App Store and you might be surprised with what you can do with it. The Mozy team has decided to keep the features to a minimum in the beginning, relying on user feedback and an aggressive update cycle to get things up to speed. [...]
This post started off as an email to a few family and friends, but I figured I might as well share with the world. I’ll start with a clarification: If your only goal in using social media is money, you will probably fail miserably. A passion for writing and engaging with others is a requirement [ Read More ]
Google has officially launched their own light-weight social interaction/recommendation feature: the +1 button. They describe the +1 button as shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” The goal at this point is to enhance your search experience with recommendations from friends and to share those recommendations with the world. Of [...]
Yesterday, we caught an interesting tweet from Quincy Jones III (@QD3), British-born son of American music producer Quincy Jones. so @2Pac joined twitter today, please follow him and lets get him to 1mil asap =) @2Pac, EVERYBODY please retweet! Salute Tupac I know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t someone just pretending to be Tupac [...]
The 106 & Park App from BET lets you become a part of “the livest audience on TV” without ever leaving your couch. The app includes many of the basics you would expect, but also ties into location and social network to create a more interactive experience. It adds another layer to the show that [...]
