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REPORT: Whites Use The Computer For Business and Social Activism, Blacks Still Use Their Computers For Entertainment and Dating

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-21 07:13
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The digitial divide is closing.  But African Americans are still using their computers for entertainment purposes. 
 
The Internet and American Life Study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that almost 50 percent of African Americans were using hand-held or mobile devices to surf the web compared to only 28 percent of whites. Clearly, between mobile phone plans and the plummeting costs of laptop computers the digital divide between African Americans and other groups is diminishing.

New Tool: Black Comic Strip Illustrators and Publishers

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-07 12:29
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Users can search and purchase digital versions of their favorite comics from an online store and keep and organize these comics in a personal library. The company’s technology provides a positive online viewing experience on a computer screen or mobile device, including the options to expand text size or include subtitles. Along with simply reading a comic on a device, TakeComics provides many bonus features such as context sensitive menus that appear when a character is selected.

Google Launches Friend Connect - Allows Users On Your Website To Connect With Other Google Users

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-07 12:20
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Google Friend Connect instantly awakens and strengthens the community that visits your site by enriching it with social features. Watch the video below to learn more.

Build your community
Anyone can join your site and discover other members by using information from a variety of services, including Google, Yahoo, Twitter, AOL, orkut, and Plaxo, strengthening your community as visitors become members.

Freebie Fridays: Free Alternative To Quickbooks

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-07 10:53
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Ubikwiti is now offered as a free “no strings”, simple, intuitive and easy to use application. Neither accounting knowledge nor technical programming skills are required to setup, use and customize the software.
 

The software has the following features:

If The Social Media Crashes Again, Will You Have A Back Up Plan? Did you create a networking strategy?

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-07 07:46
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Our dependency to twitter and facebook for social networking should be taken seriously.   Of course, I am talking to those of us who use those two social networking sites for -- social networking. 

If The Social Media Crashes Again, Will You Have A Back Up Plan? Did you create a networking strategy?

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 2009-08-07 07:46
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Our dependency to twitter and facebook for social networking should be taken seriously.   Of course, I am talking to those of us who use those two social networking sites for -- social networking. 

Microsoft (MSFT) is about to give its Web portal MSN a big re-design

Submitted by Editor on Mon, 2009-07-20 10:13
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Microsoft (MSFT) is about to give its Web portal MSN a big re-design.

It's a retrenchment, mainly.

"It’s a decision to make it so MSN does less better," one source told BoomTown.

"So there will be a focus of attention on a smaller number of categories in which we can be either #1 or #2 in, rather than #4 or #5."

There will be a greater emphasis on News, Sports, Finance, Lifestyle and Entertainment offerings.

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