IT Facts (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
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
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
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...
Red Star Entertainment Daily (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
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....
Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
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 [...]
Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
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...
Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
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 [...]
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Multimedia conglomerate Radio One has acquired NYC-based Community Connect for $38M. Radio One owns and/or operates 53 radio stations in 16 domestic urban markets. The firm runs niche social networking sites for African-Americans (BlackPlanet.com), Asian-Americans (AsianAve.com) and Latinos (MiGente.com). And this year we just launched two new sites focused on the GLBT market (Glee.com) and the Christian...
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Radio One, black-owned radio behemoth that’s making major strides into other areas of media (TVOne, for instance), just announced it has purchased Community Connect, the company that owns BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAve.com, for $38 million. That’s a nice sum for a handful of Web sites that I was under the impression no one used anymore. [...]
Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Our customer Radio-One - continues to rock. Or shall I say hip-hop? Last week we went live with OnOne - their new social network, built on PeopleAggregator. Please notice BTW how radically different the OnOne UI is from our generic demo UI. That’s called CSS and our templating system. The backend is totally decoupled from [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Radio One, Inc. has acquired Community Connect (CCI) and its subsidiary social network BlackPlanet.com for $38 million. That's about $812 million less than Time Warner paid to acquire Bebo, which,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
NY-based social networking firm Community Connect, which owns BlackPlanet, AsianAvenue, and MiGente, has been acquired by Radio One (ROIA) for $38 million. BlackPlanet boasts 20 million members and was the fourth most-visited U.S. social networking site last year, according to Hitwise . Founder and president Ben Sun will continue to run Community Connect, which has about 100 employees. We reported...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
According to a study released by Bridge Ratings in September of last year, around 83% of a cross-section of Americans listen to the same or less terrestrial radio than they did six months prior. Roughly 90% of those same folks are turning to the Internet the same or more so than they did in the [...]
The Paradigm Shift (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Copied from paidcontent. CommunityConnect, one of the oldest social networks around (since 1996) which has been focused on different ethnic groups, has been sold to a non-obvious buyer: Radio One, the radio network focused on African-American and urban listeners, has bought it for about $38 million. CC owns BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAve.com, and says has over [...]
Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Community Connect was purchased by RadioOne today for $38 million. We broke the news first on Community Connect being up for sale back in February. Community Connect owns BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAve.com. This is a major move in the space as RadioOne continues to make strategic decisions regarding their interactive venture, [...]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
We hear that Community Connect , which owns social networks BlackPlanet, MiGente, and AsianAvenue, is in "serious negotiations" to sell itself. No word yet on the buyer or price. One guess: Barry Diller's IAC (IACI), which is launching a new Web site on April 10 -- RushmoreDrive , "the web destination that will change the way the Black community Drives the Web ." BlackPlanet, Community Connect's biggest...
