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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The BlackPlanet Universe Will Create Greater Opportunity For Awareness,
Content, Conversation and Engagement
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- InteractiveOne, LLC The Digital
Connection For Black America, today announced that BlackPlanet, the
premiere African American social network will now serve as the social
network connecting all of InteractiveOne's content sites and enabling a
combined audience...
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Just last week we wrote about OnOne’s short life span and its entering the deadpool (theoretically). Well, this week Interactive One has made distinct changes to further integrate the bevy of sites they recently launched into their recently acquired BlackPlanet.com. You will notice that NewsOne, The Urban Daily, Hello Beautiful, and Giant are all now [...]
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UberPhones (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
If you’re a social networking site junkie, then you’ll want to take a look at this app that Verizon is offering – SocialLife. The application basically helps you manage all those supported networking sites from one application. Supported sites include AsianAve, BlackPlanet, FaithBase, GLEE, LiveJournal, MiGente, Photobucket, Rabble and MTV Tr3s, though surprisingly, no Facebook. The bad news is that...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Grammy Award winning, multiplatinum artist Big Boi of Internationally
acclaimed group OutKast Tapped to Host Online Video Show "We the People"
Capturing the Voice of Black America
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive One, LLC, the digital
division of Radio One, Inc. (Nasdaq: and ROIA), will offer on-going
coverage of the Democratic National Convention featuring unique content,
all- access...
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
On focus groups that is. If you’re a member of BlackPlanet.com who actually reads their emails and doesn’t have them directed straight to your Spam box you may have gotten an email from them yesterday soliciting your participation in a focus group. If you didn’t get the email, or just don’t read them, you may [...]
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Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
After an innovative primary campaign which leveraged virtual social networks such as MySpace, Blackplanet, Facebook and YouTube to recruit supporters and maximize campaign donations, the Barack Obama campaign announces another virtual first: The campaign says its vice presidential announcement is...
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ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Great interview with Omar Wasow, who cofounded BlackPlanet.com and is now Product Strategist for the TheRoot.com, over at Black Web 2.0. Some high points: BlackPlanet.com When starting BlackPlanet.com in 1999, they didn't focus on how many African Americans were online but...
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
In Episode # 8 of the Black Web 2.0 Show we speak with Omar Wasow co-founder of BlackPlanet.com and Product Strategist for the TheRoot.com. Omar is pursuing a doctorate in African American studies and political science at Harvard University. In addition to his graduate work, Omar is the co-founder of BlackPlanet.com. Under Omar’s leadership [...]
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IT Facts (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Rank Name Domain May-08 Apr-08 May-07 Growth, % 1 MySpace www.myspace.com 72.73% 73.82% 77.72% -6% 2 Facebook www.facebook.com 16.24% 14.80% 11.47% 42% 3 myYearbook www.myyearbook.com 1.40% 1.33% 0.29% 384% 4 Bebo www.bebo.com 1.00% 1.09% 1.38% -28% 5 BlackPlanet.com www.blackplanet.com 0.90% 0.98% 0.83% 9% Source: Hitwise
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IT Facts (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Rank Name Domain Returning New 1 MySpace www.myspace.com 95% 5% 2 Facebook www.facebook.com 93% 7% 3 MyYearbook.com www.myyearbook.com 89% 11% 4 Bebo www.bebo.com 82% 18% 5 BlackPlanet.com www.blackplanet.com 89% 11% Source: Hitwise
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
T-Mobile has added support for Bebo and Piczo to its My Social Sites mobile social networking application. The app already allowed customers to use Xanga, LiveJournal, Vox, BlackPlanet and Rabble. My Social Sites lets users post comments , send messages and accept friend requests for £0.05 a time, or add a photo for £0.20; they can also browse profiles and search friends for 24 hours for £0.20. It's...
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Red Star Entertainment Daily (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
The latest trend these days has been to start up your own social networking website. Myspace along with Facebook is the king pin of all social networking websites and has shown the world the power of this type of network. Major players in this field, such as blackplanet.com, hi5.com, migente.com, etc., have been forced to bow down to Tom (founder of Myspace) and some even pay to advertise on his website....
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Before Radio One’s OnOne, before GlobalGrind, there was Urban Box Office. The hopes for it were right up there with BlackVoices, BlackPlanet, and BET.com. But it was supposed to be even bigger. It was like a network of sites of everything urban. But what happened? It looks like John Threat is directing a movie that answers [...]
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Interactive One, the digital division of Radio One, has announced a 5 year multi-million dollar advertising deal with AllHipHop.com, the top online destination for Hip-Hop news. AllHipHop now joins the recently acquired Blackplanet.com, and Interactive One’s collection of web properties, including Newsone.com, Tvone, Giantmag.com, and 50+ urban radio station websites across the country, creating one...
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Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 26/04/2008
Our client RadioOne (and their division InteractiveOne) started to stroke for publicity today and went on the Tom Joyner Show and PBS and got their new acquisition BlackPlanet.com to link to their new content site NewsOne we built for them. They've got an exclusive interview up with Malcolm X’s grandson - who just got out of [...]
