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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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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