

Hello everyone, we hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving and haven’t spent to much money on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Either way, after taken a week off for Thanksgiving, we’re back to bringing you some of leaders in Social Media on the web today. This week we had a chance to talk with our second female guest Angela Benton (@Abenton) who is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb20.com.
We talked with Angela about social media in the African-American community, how did BlackWeb 2.0 get started, challenges in being a female and building her online brand using social media and what’s next for Black Web 2.0.
The interview: Talk Social News Episode 15 - length 40:03 download or click to play:
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Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
Cyber Monday & dealnews.com
Fail of the week:
Mumbai terror attacks on twitter. (our condolences goes out to the families.)
News this week
The history of twitter extended backgrounds & twitterimage.com
Facebook tries to buy twitter for how much?
Friendfeed & twitter have not killed blogging
Blackberry Storm & 10,000 iPhone apps
Tweetsgiving.org
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Posted on: December 1st, 2008
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The interview: Talk Social News Episode 14 - length 38:40 download or click to play:
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Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
Obama’s first address to the nation on YouTube
Fail of the week:
A Sad Day In Silicon Valley
News this week
Blackberry Storm
How fast is google android phone?
Video Chat comes to Gmail
Twitter 20 interviews
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Posted on: November 17th, 2008
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By now I’m sure you’re aware of how social media played a role in electing our new president and the online community is a buzz about the future of social media in government and politics. This week on Talk Social News, we explore the future of social media and politics as we talk with Thomas Cook, cofounder of Politics4All. Politics4All is a socially-networked platform that allows citizens, candidates, citizens, and groups to connect and collaborate on every level of the political spectrum. (from http://politics4all.com)
Take a listen as we discuss how President-Elect Barack Obama won the election using social media, the future of Change.gov and Politics4all.com, and what’s it’s like to be a TechCrunch50 demo company working on a business plan and raising capital. We also talked about the roll of citizen journalism reporting the news and the cool Politics4All t-shirts. For more about Politics4All you can read their blog or follow them on twitter at @Politics4All but first listen to the podcast.
The interview: Talk Social News Episode 13 - length 34:53 download or click to play:
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What the blog:
The fail of the week:
John McCain and Sarah Palin, not that they lost the election but the nasty back and forth, finger pointing they are doing now.
Tech news of the week:
Linkedin gets events
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Posted on: November 10th, 2008
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This week on Talk Social News, we’re thrilled to feature our first female guest, Tara Hunt aka Missrogue. Tara is author, marketing expert, BarCamp Queen and blogs at http://www.horsepigcow.com. Check out the interview as we talk about her new book “The Whuffie Factor“, her thoughts on social media, what makes her tick and continue to grow in this social media space.
The interview: Talk Social News Episode 12 - length 56:12 download or click to play:
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Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
http://twittervotereport.com and http://videothevote.org
The fail of the week:
Terrorists using Twitter
Tech news of the week:
Linkedin new application directory
Windows 7
Opera denied form the Apple’s iTunes app store or was it?
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Posted on: November 4th, 2008
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