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GlobalGrind to Launch Hip-Hop Network with Glam (Black Web 2.0)

markus@blackweb20.com (Angela Benton and Markus Robinson) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:19:02 GMT

... if the folks at GG are smart. I think they are. I met with Navarrow Wright, President & CEO of GlobalGrind earlier this week and was a little surprised that I was just hearing about this deal now, given that it was initially announced earlier this month. It’s an interesting maneuver for Glam, considering its a woman-centric media brand, and even more interesting for GG in the sense that...

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Remember Urban Box Office? (Black Web 2.0)

markus@blackweb20.com (Angela Benton and Markus Robinson) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:18:43 GMT

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 [...]

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WuChess: Online Chess For The Hip Hop Crowd. Why Not. (TechCrunch)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:09:04 GMT

Hey, we’ve got Netvibes for the hip hop crowd (GlobalGrind), why not online chess, too? WuChess, a partnership between Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and ChessPark, a social network around online chess playing, launches today. It’s the “world’s first online chess and hip hop community” and will also include exclusive videos and mp3 of the “hottest cats [...]

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What if GlobalGrind fails? (Black Web 2.0)

markus@blackweb20.com (Angela Benton and Markus Robinson) — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:57:33 GMT

The Internet has been buzzing about the possible demise of Global Grind, the Digg-like Social bookmarking site targeting an urban audience. It's unclear whether or not the rumors will be confirmed, but as one of only a few venture capitalist funded websites targeting an urban niche, I wonder what impact Global Grind's failure could have [...]

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BOOKMARKING 2.0: 223 ways to validate, annotate, rate, manage, explore & share interesting links, and/or to promote your blog (EVERYTHING 2.0)

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:14:00 GMT

... 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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GlobalGrind Facebook App (Black Web 2.0)

markus@blackweb20.com (Angela Benton and Markus Robinson) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:19:33 GMT

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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The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters (TechCrunch)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:38:22 GMT

... 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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GlobalGrind Simplifies Design (Black Web 2.0)

markus@blackweb20.com (Angela Benton and Markus Robinson) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:56:20 GMT

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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Russell Simmons To Show Off Website On His Brother's MTV Show [Silicon Alley Insider] (Venture Capital)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:29:44 GMT

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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From 360hiphop to GlobalGrind, BlockSavvy, and DanceJam (LynnedJohnson.com)

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:41:31 GMT

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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Niche Social Networks Starting to Emerge: It's Only Just Begun! (TheAlphaMarketer)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:51:09 GMT

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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Famous names back music on social media Web sites (LA Times)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

... 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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GlobalGrind.com launches beta (tiffany b. brown)

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:26:19 GMT

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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GlobalGrind.com - Hip Hop Gen Gets A Startpage (KillerStartups.com)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:54:00 GMT

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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Global Grind: Ajax, Finally, For The Hip Hop Demographic (TechCrunch)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:25:47 GMT

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...

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