Nah Right (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A new shirt from MiGente to match your ?uesto’s. Nicely executed if you ask me. Which you didn’t. Of course instead of the ?uesto 1’s you should rock this with these. via Nice Kicks Previously: ?uestlove Speaks to Kix In The City
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Should we condone people still spelling in this way? “Gurlz” wtf? i Haven’t sEen Such siNcE tHe MiGente days.
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
There's no denying that the campaign of Barack Obama has embraced social networking and new media like no campaign in history. Obama has accounts on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, Flickr -- even on niche social networks AsianAve, MiGente, and Faithbase. And Obama, or someone in his campaign, actually uses the accounts and keeps them up-to-date. Could it be that likely Democratic nominee...
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. [...]
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...
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...
Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
It looks like MySpace is stepping on to CCI’s turf. For those who don’t know about CCI, it’s Community Connect, the parent company behind ethnic community sites like BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAvenue.com, as well as a GLBT site and faith-based site. MS’s parent, News Corp., must be smelling all that immigrant money. (J/K) But [...]
Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 08/27/2007
Virgin Mobile USA has added support for another 8 social network sites. Having recently announced that users would have access to Facebook they have not partnered with Intercasting to offer a selection of social network sites such as AsianAve, BlackPlanet, GLEE, MiGente, LiveJournal, Rabble, Vox and Xanga. Along with the wide variety of sites available the [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 08/22/2007
Virgin Mobile USA has teamed up with Intercasting Corporation to use its ANTHEM platform in order to offer a slew of online social networks via mobile access to its customers. The sites you can now access via your Virgin Mobile phone include AsianAve, BlackPlanet, Glee, MiGente, LiveJournal, Rabble, Vox, and Xanga. You'll notice that Virgin [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 06/09/2007
FaithBase is a niche community for the faith crowd, offering a network for spiritual guidance and making new friends. This new network was created by Community Connect, Inc., the company that brought us BlackPlanet, MiGente and Glee. Its latest niche community offers the same networking opportunities, and doesn't differ much in structure or functionality than [...]
