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EVERYTHING 2.0 (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
... links to videos on 3rd party websites. View. Bibsonomy - Share bookmarks & literature lists. View. Globalgrind - Discover, bookmark, rate & share content. View. Hotmarx - Store, organize & share bookmarks, files & notes. View. Jamespot - Explore, create & share topical bookmarks pages. View. Linkdoozer - Social bookmarking & reviewing. View. Mogad - Discover media that your friends are discovering....
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The GlobalGrind Facebook app is pretty sweet I must admit. Essentially, what this app does is make it super easy for a GlobalGrind user with a Facebook account to access and utilize GlobalGrind within the Facebook framework. Adding the GlobalGrind Facebook app was simple and took no time at all. When you are logged in [...]
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
... 3.3% market share, respectively. Then, at the end, Netvibes and Pageflakes. Not on the chart is GlobalGrind, a hip-hop centric personalized home page that launched in September 2007. They now have 144,000 monthly unique visitors of their own. Not bad for a site that's less than six months old. A total of $20 million or so in venture capital has gone into Pageflakes and Netvibes. But without...
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Black Web 2.0 (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Yesterday GlobalGrind announced their redesign on their blog. With the design being more simplified and usable it seems as if GlobalGrind has modified their business model as well. When we covered the sites’ public Beta launch in September the concept was more like a startpage and was based on the Pageflakes API, currently [...]
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
We're still not totally sold on GlobalGrind , the "start page" aimed at the "hip-hop community." But maybe we'll be convinced after watching CEO Navarrow Wright and co-founder Russell Simmons put the site through its paces on MTV. They'll show up at 10pm tonight on "Run's House", where we're told the two will "explore the site with Rev. Run" -- who is Russell's brother, of course. If you happen...
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LynnedJohnson.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2007
After last week's "BusinessWeek Puff Piece on Hip Hop 2.0" and Reuters "Famous names back music on social media Web sites," I thought it was high time I dig into the archives. While the BW article is nothing more than...
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TheAlphaMarketer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2007
It's inevitable, to me, that the social networking space will begin to gravitate toward niche interests, and it's already happening. The latest spree of networks emerging shows some of the things happening in this area. Russell Simmons, a hip-hop entrepreneur, is backing the creators of GlobalGrind, that empowers users, through a personal page, to link to a number of areas of interest in the...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
... music as social media and cultural force is part of what attracted Simmons to back the founders of GlobalGrind, a personal Web page focused on hip-hop culture that helps the user link to the latest music, news and videos as well as to their social network pages.Since building the first major hip-hop label, Def Jam, in the 1980s, Simmons has been involved in a range of entrepreneurial and...
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tiffany b. brown (Free subscription) | 11/02/2007
And they've received more funding too, according to Techcrunch. No invite necessary. I’ve written about GlobalGrind.com before, and I'm quite interested to see whether and how a niche-audience start page can be successful, particularly in the face of stiff competition from established players (Google, Yahoo) and upstarts (Pageflakes, Netvibes). GlobalGrind.com seems ...
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KillerStartups.com (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
What it does There are plenty of sites designed for hip hop culture, but has there ever been a hip hop page tricked out with Ajax? Well, now there is. GlobalGrind is a customizable Ajax home page geared at the 20 some million hip hoppers out there. It's very niche but hip hop sells—it's extremely lucrative, all that bling requires cold hard cash, after all. GlobalGrind is free and it...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
The global hip-hop community: twenty four million people between the ages of 19-34, from a range of nationalities, ethnic groups and religions. Their collective spending power is $500 billion annually in the U.S. alone. Naturally, there are lots of online properties dedicated to Hip Hop culture. And now they have a customizable Ajax home page, too. New York based GlobalGrind launches this morning...
