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| Saturday, September 16 02:06 AM |
| Sayshe Begins Urban Women's Site War |
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Sayshe.com beats the competition to the urban woman's content site arena. It is supposed to launch today with a simple party and no online or offline branding to speak of. The site was conceived by Lynne McDaniel, a human resources refusenik who actually wants to do film, but will settle for a website for now. Lured to Hookt to handle HR and shuffle some papers, she pressured them for money to start her own affiliate site. The Result: Sayshe.com
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| Wednesday, August 30 04:59 PM |
| Was The Source Hip-Hop Awards Edited By Golden Harvest or Ocean Video? |
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UPN aired what they could of the 2000 Source Hip-Hop Awards, last night and besides shots of Lil' Kim's g-string, it wasn't much to see. Pressed to fill two hours of allotted network time and fulfill it's commitment to sponsors such as Sony and Sprite, UPN used the show as a hip-hop soundtrack to their shameless infomercial of new shows for their first and most likely, last season. We've seen Kung Fu flicks with better continuity.
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| Thursday, October 05 02:48 PM |
| Places Of Color Is Even Duller. |
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Urbanexpose.com brings you an advanced look at Places of Color before it launches. You can now enjoy POC with a temporal displacement. Considering it may be a long time before this product reaches the completion, enjoy it vicariously through us.
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| Thursday, January 18 03:50 PM |
| Hookt and Platform Join Forces. Employees Take Losses. |
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Hookt recently had another round of layoffs from the original staff as the merger with Platform was completed. After having dismal Christmas sales and low traffic across most of their properties, Peter and Chas are set to have Tina Imn and Ben White take over their web properties in a last ditch attempt to survive. They seek to bring the Platform's patronizing banal look at urban culture that has uninspired college kids for the last four years.
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| Thursday, August 17 05:40 PM |
| Two Guys With Their Heads In The Bushes |
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Politicallyblack.com is a site run by two republicans out of D.C. that promised to provide "hard-hitting, cutting-edge, envelope-pushing big-up weekly review of political news and happenings" and hoped to revolutionize Black political discussion online. They sold the site for the price of a Range Rover to a company that was going public. What exactly is the purpose of a site that uses a demeaning logo of a black butler serving dinner to Capitol Hill?
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| Wednesday, February 13 12:16 PM |
| Is the Source Brand No Longer In Demand? |
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TheSource threw a party this past weekend for All-Star weekend in a venue that could hold 3000 people at $60 a pop. The only problem is only 100 people showed up, and they all got in for free. TheSource has recently put up a for sale sign just as the empire seems to be slowly fraying at the ends.
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| Monday, September 18 01:34 PM |
| Marion Jones Has the Skills, Adam Kidron and UBO Pays the Bills |
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Adam Kidron's UBO arrives late again with an under-whelming website for a hot property. This past week Marion Jones was on covers of magazines and on every television station. She is poised to bring home a record 5 gold medals. UBO is poised to bring home 5 hits. The Olympics officially started this weekend and UBO is attempting to get a site up in time before she competes. They paid her approximately $1 million dollars for the rights to do this site and they haven't even linked to it from their main site yet.
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| Tuesday, November 07 10:46 AM |
| Adam Kidron and UBO - To Indemnify and Beyond. |
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Urban Box Office files for bankruptcy in an attempt to stave off creditors. The list of creditor is a mile long and includes many players in the New Economy. UBO laid off 300+ employees right before a major holiday. Most of the bankruptcy lists of creditors are employees they are preparing not to pay. Curiously, the bankruptcies records don't include Adam Kidron's 3 o'clock helicopter flights around Manhattan for pretty girls. Now that's taping into the urban market.
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