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Hookt and Platform Sitting In A Tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
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Hookt.com has secured it's next round of financing. It's been quietly attempting to make a ton of deals and partnerships, which are attractive to investors. They have aligned themselves with partners such as Bad Boy, Kioken, Slim Shady, Homegirl and blackplanet.com. They are quietly paying to insert their brand name on everything; Magazine ads, compact disc releases, and one-color posters on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. So why isn't Hookt.com that addictive?
Evidently investors are not scared of the urban space. It's been given a vote of confidence by a small investment round being closed by Hookt. The round should allow Hookt to continue to operate until VC's warm up to pure web content and e-commerce plays again next year. Hookt management has proven adept at raising funds to continue operations and make acquisitions.
Lately there has been speculation about a merger between Hookt and Platform. The talks between them may have inadvertently been sparked by the recent events in online urban space and an anonymous e-mail. We wondered what Hookt and Platform would bring to the table if they merged.
Hookt:
- Shiny waxed denim Sean John outfits that you can buy at Stern's.
- A Shockwave app that lets you spray paint on fuzzy pictures but doesn't let you save your work. It makes investors go ooooh.
- Has a cold, dark rat-infested warehouse to work from in Manhattan.
- Frame based site with redundant navigation that hides anything remotely interesting and the worst message board system in the free world.
- Top Heavy Management Team to take meetings while eating salads with heavy vinaigrette dressings and make reservations at Justin's.
- Multiple spin-off sites that amount to directionless efforts that are promoted by one-page mockups to attract the next round of financing. I.E: http://www.hooktflicks.com, http://www.hookthits.com and the coming Hookt Latino portal site.
- Free ads in One World Magazine
Platform:
- Timely hip-hop stories in tiny little fonts that are hard for the over 20 set to read.
- They have free e-mail accounts from domains that platform thinks are hip-hop-esque such as pumpzinabumps.com, chillymos.com and careercriminial.com.
- A shockwave music player that comes on the Macromedia director 6.5 CD that has been slightly modified to deliver eye strain to whoever tries to operate it.
- Digitalnoise, a drum & bass site, acquired by platform.net because they needed a guy who could do webcasting.
- An in-house production team that can actually finish those mockup sites in the Hookt network.
- Has a cold, dark rat-infested warehouse to work from in Brooklyn.
- Tiny little message boards that have a few posts on it from people who actually found them.
- They have access to an unlimited amount of extra-small tight black t-shirts for CEO of Hookt, Peter Griffith to wear to Justin's.
- A copy of Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists.
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Great way to begin the week. |
I guess UE is an Urban Website after all!!! Just look at the big flashy headline with a complete lack of content! If only there'd been a lengthy and pointless FLASH animation as an intro to this non-story of a story... but alas... I guess UE has too much sense for all of that.
Hookt + Platform ='s what? Plakt?
Dunna-dunt-dunt-dunt... another one bites the dust... and another one's gone and another one's gone... another one bites the dust!
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This is as lackluster a headline can be. |
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This is just poor journalism.
Don't tease the readers with a flashy headline and then not deliver content.
This is just sad. So much for a breath of fresh air. This site reeks
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Gee, it's April Fool already?! |
try this!
http://www.impact247.com/xp/Impact247/internet/articles/art_112100_volumelaunch.xml
still waiting on UE's take on VOLUME.COM. wonder why they haven't given it the once over?
a mysterious omission! |
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ya are all haters, give UE time to put up the content b4 u guys starts hating ... damn.... |
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"In an effort to keep costs low, Volume is utilizing the relationships from the Time Warner family. Volume will cross-market with HBO, sponsoring promotions for The Chris Rock Show and offering urban-based reviews to Epinions." funny I could have sworn that Chris Rock's show was cancelled this season... |
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I gotta say that this deal (if their is any truth to it) is probably the first deal revealed on UE that has made any sense to me! Praise Jesus!
I know some people think that Hookt is a joke, but hey they still have a pulse and apparently have a magical ability to raise capital (if I remember correctly they raised like 12 mill) ... As people knowledgeable in the space have observed, Platform.net is about the only company in the space that has actually DONE ANYTHING (and they have done it with a super lean staff)! ... Others have had a business plan, a lot of floss, and expensive launch parties ... but never had a real business or made anything happen. Hopefully a deal like this would actually mean bringing together two things that we haven't seen before in the urban space -- a team with both strong financing and stong operational skills and real online experience .... hmmm, funny that nobody figured this out sooner.
I say God Bless 'em and good luck battling whatever beaten-up competition is still left standing. |
Yeah unfortunately for Volume the Chris Rock Show is over, although not because of cancellation. Chris supposedly wants to focus on movies.
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,7428,00.html
-Jay Smooth
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Interesting headline, and equally amusing and informative comments.
(now if we could get that article up...) |
Thanks to those who responded to my question about creating a quality
urban media product. I had the interview and alas, the principal can't pay me right
away. But he's talking equity, etc. What he wants to turn his site (www.smacktv.com)
into is a aRude or Black Book magazine online, an urban avant garde, progressive
culture type thing, for the DC/Baltimore Area. With online vending, webcasting, all
that. He's trying to get at VC but I already let him know he should just stick to
ecommerce for now. Instead of working for him for no pay, I'm going to contract out
the services of
eI, conglomerate made up of OmegaDawn Grafix (www.omegadawn.com), entIndustry
(www.entindustry.com) and various other designers, artisans, and consultants. Any
people here from the DC/ Baltimore Area (or anywhere else for that matter) interested in
our services, or collaborating, email me. |
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What happened? UE fired the content writer and kept the witty title maker? |
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O. Abiola Akintola,
"I had the interview and alas, the principal can't pay me right
away. But he's talking equity, etc."
You should have stood up, shook his hand and walked right out the door, everything else is just bullshit from that point on....
If that is the case, why not start your own business - you won't get paid right now either but your equity is unquestionable.. |
hee hee!! This is gonna be a big story. I can just tell.
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If that is the case, why not start your own business - you won't get paid right now either but your equity is unquestionable..
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yeah after reading his post i'm wondering the same thing. |
WWW.HIPHOPFANCLUB.COM
THANKS. |
HBO pulled the plug on Chris Rock but put some real hip-hop on with the Blaze Battle... didn't that magazine shut down earlier this year... how the hell did they swing a show with a defunkt company... anyway long live hip-hop.... oh by the way... i think raymond o'neal should be taken off of the no buzz list... |
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tokachu,
Ed Dunn is more than right. Leave that nonsense alone and expend energy on something that you can have faith in, your own vision.
Remember Big's words "Credit? Dead it." You think a crackhead/aspiring wannabe e-mogul payin' you back? Forget it. take a look at the LOooooONG UBO list of people with their hands out.
Go for it Black. |
i haven't practiced my arithmetic lately but correct me if I'm wrong...
HOOKT.COM = 0
PLATFORM > 0
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If y'all will look at the url's I posted, you'll see I'm already coo of a startup (omegadawn.com). |
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I love hip hop but the Blaze battle was wack. Like most things so sweet, once the corporate shits-tem gets a hold of it, bye bye flavor.
And what the hell was going on with the contestants? It was more of a who can sound like the hottest cat on radio competition. NO ORIGINALITY. White "rappers" were rapping like EM, black rappers doing the best DMX/Hova/Tuff guy routine.
And as far as the female MC's ... that was some of the worst garbage I have ever seen. The one chick ran off'a the stage when her written lyrics were exposed.
Sell me a bootleg video of the Blaze battles of yesteryear, or get some talent on stage -- preferrably signed. Too many nutty rappers are making a living at something they know nothing of.
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my bad tokachu, I was directing my comment to O. Abiola Akintola, to whom I still say, go for it Black.
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falxcon....
i hate to tell you that you're wrong....
but you're wrong!
Blaze Battle is the purist form of Hip-Hop that is commercially available....
and get this. Blaze Battle is BLACK OWNED AND OPERATED.
Who do you work for? |
www.HipHopFanClub.com
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Gangsta Digital HBO did not pull the plug on CHRIS ROCK. Chris Rock and producer NELSON GEORGE wanted this to be the last season so he can concentrate on his movie and satnd up career, but he will still be doing HBO special. Wht you should be concerned with is HBO pulling the plug on OZ after the summer season... hint hint. u heard it first here. |
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Does it bother you that HBO is not going to be showing men in prison performing sex acts on each other?
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NO it doesnt DIGITAL , but im saying that all the urban based shows are usually the first to go but the can have stupid shows like FRIENDS and SIEFIELD on for decades.... |
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New York Undercover was a great urban show..but that last season was a clear warning to all of those urban outfits ran by brothers/sisters with non-urban people pulling the strings at the top..
I remember Malik in his decision to leave said Dick Wolf told him "I'm not going to turn this into some angry black man show"...
that should speak for itself.... |
Watch your sources X! Don't count Oz Out Yet. I'm a REAL insider on this one. |
what we should do then is start a relevant black television network not a "black looking" network... but i hear you though... |
Alrighty then.
Confused and somewhat titillated by this non-story, I visited Hookt.com today. I have never been there before. The content seems fine, but the layout is kind of tricky...
Now, I check Platform.net everyday. I love it. If you want to know why, go there today and read the Wu Tang interview.
Here's an excerpt...
"Chaos. Interviewing the Wu-Tang Clan is like herding cats in the rain wearing rollerblades...
P4M: If you woke up tomorrow and you were in Loud president Steve Rifkind's body, what would
you do?
RZA: I couldn't even imagine. I can't think of a thought like that. Where you get a question like that
from, son? This is for the Internet?"
Ahh. Such imagery in that intro. Sounds like me trying to snowboard. GOD I love the RZA! That's such a great comeback...
So, it might be silly, but I like Platform.Net.
Okay I'm out.
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MJ, saw your on-line article about MF Grimm's legal troubles. Just wanted to say it's nice to see somebody giving a fuck about underground artists. |
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platform and all those other sites have dead message boards (except for sohh but they have some real idiots there).
I mainly visit wodie.com's World Wide Wodie Forum
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P i hate to tell you this but OZ is a VIACOM property not HBO's... and this is the last season... im in the real inside track not HBO either.. unless u are going find them another set |
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[*] Some content
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_520751,00.html |
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So why isn't Hookt.com that addictive?
Addictive to who? If I was a urban youth and had a choice between playing my video game console, hopping the subway with my two-way, partying & smoking weed, getting laid or sitting alone in a room browsing an urban web site...guess which one will be the LAST choice? Duh.....
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http://www.backpackrap.com/interview.html
for the real deal on mf grimm check out this interview/feature |
I hear you Miranda .... Platform has good content .... much better than the bullshit at the other urban sites which looks like it was written by a 5th grader ... I go there all the time for the news stories ....
Hookt ... well I'm not mad at Hookt either, but I was never really impressed or drawn back to it ... the content just isn't there ... maybe that is why the traffic isn't there ... hmmmm ... but I thought content was supposed to dead? whaddaya know ...
maybe this will be a good deal ... or at least a good deal for the audience
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Peace. THANK YOU everyone and anyone who's paying attention to MF Grimm. First of all, that's my homie and second of all, he's one of the more underrated and/or unknown micraphone masters in this shit.
With regard to Hookt, I think the content is there, it's just a little hard to navigate. And I know if have a janky browser here at work, but I hate trying to read an article where all the apostrophes (') come out like this o^187 - makes it kind of hard to read.
HOWEVER - Hookt, like Volume and a slew of others, definitely has some talent on their staff roster. Datwon who used to be at XXL works there, and he's one of the best and brightest fo' sure - not that I know what he does for Hookt...
Datwon, get at me.
-Respect-
p.s. Please support MF Grimm's 12" double vinyl with MF Doom - Grimm's "The Original", "Dedicated" and "Break 'Em Off" with Doom's "Doomsday Remix", "Imposters" and "No Snakes" - in stores now - from Brick Records/Landspeed. Also available on CD as an EP including all the instrumentals of the aforementioned tracks!
p.p.s. Crispus, please create some sort of message board so I don't have to pub singles in such obscurity...
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Angela Northington, Director of Development and Production at Urbanentertainment.com is conducting a one-day seminar through the UCLA extension Entertainment Studies department. The title of the seminar is "UrbanEntertainment.com: Production Trends and Market Strategies."
I take it UE will be in attendance and will get the inside scoop on what Damon Lee and Michael Jenkinson are doing over there. Right, Crispus? |
The top live-action/animated entertainment sites according to Nielsen/Net Ratings for the week ending Nov. 12:
shockwave.com
mtv.com
cartoonnetwork.com
joecartoon.com
killfrog.com
icebox.com
atomfilms.com
entertaindom.com
bigstar.com
zap2it.com
ifilm.com
broadcastamerica.com
jibjab.com
I find this all very interesting. Anyone feel the same? |
Platforms design and content id dope hands down I dare anybody to really show me a site thta does both these things better
and for all its hype hookt is just trying to be it isnt being it doesnt relly have a community vibe going like OKP maybe that redesign job they are paying kiokin out the ass for will make the site look better but it wont give it a soul I mean even though the boards on sohh are full of wannabe backpckers at least it has a strong online community |
Darq i find it intresting heavy isnt on that list and mtv is what animation are they doing?
so how does being on that top 10 list translate to dollers anyway? |
I said my last post was my last post, but I hate that so many sites are being overlooked.
Message board? Since so many of you haters refuse to acknowledge powerful indie sites.
Peep this message board, peep the IP addresses, peep the number of entries and learn to stop hating and generalizing.
http://www.hot104.com/oped.htm
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My point is there are more successful urban sites than SOHH and Platform.
People just see what the choose to see.
Why am I explaining myself to you anyway?
I'm out... all of you think what you want. |
Is this site turning into a lowrate blackplanet?
The headline was cool though...
I am Tyyler's broken heart |
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you're all a bunch of chocolate harshmellows: brown on the outside, and oooey-gooey white on the inside.
cry alone tonight, sad eyes.
die alone tonight, mad hogs
stress is dead |
WHAT HAPPEN TO WWW.NOTORIUS.COM
AND ITS OFFLINE MAGAZINE. |
i heard Cris Rock got really unhappy doing the show. Wasn't his thing, he liked stand up better. |
Hey y'all.
How about that Ol' Dirty Bastard? |
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stress magazine is dead. |
That ODB's a character ain't he? |
Everybody knows you have to get your fries from mickey D's. |
so umm.. where's the rest of the story - day 2 |
ODB needs to go into rehab for REAL and pull it together. It aint cute anymore.....he's doing stunts like a real ADDICT would. |
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Modoe,
Who (more clearly, what) I work for is clearly listed under my username.
The point is this, not all things black owned are "da bomb", aiight?!
THE 2000 BLAZE BATTLE WAS WACK. Like I said, show me (and now I must direct you to do the same) the old bootleg tapes of MC's doing their thing. Not copycat night.
No disrespct but, do your hip-hop homework. Have you been to a Blaze Battle? Have you been to a battle before a corporate name preceeded it? And recognize that everything black owned isn't always going to have the best of everything. Look at BET. Ha! I made a funny.
And the name is falxwon, not falxcon.
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This story is waaaaaay too short. Where is the investigative edge?
As far as Stress Mag, I hate to see it go. I saved all of mine because it represents the period of hip hop's adolescence from a POV that was guided by what was really happening from an urban grassroots level. Definitely historic shit. Up there with party flyers and battle tapes from the 70's.
ODB? I love what the brother does for hip hop, but he needs help. But we all must recognize that he's not going to get the breaks and third second chances that Robert Downey, Jr, continues to get. Will the rappers that give a fuck stand up and help ODB like Hollywood rallied around Downey, Jr?
Not likely. Blinging is a full time distraction from your people.
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Blaze Battle was the worst crap I've seen since
Bamboozled. A Bud Bundy wannabee won, nuff said.
As soon as it went off I pumped my tape of the Cold
Crush vs. the Force MC's and heard what a real battle
should sound like. That's hip hop, not a bunch of
backpackers and a skinny broad running off the stage.
I can't front though, Shells has skills.
Ason (or whatever he's calling himself these days)
belongs where he is. IN JAIL BECAUSE HE FAILED.
I use to piss in forty bottles and watch this fool
drink them when we were teenagers growing up in East
New York. I'm surprised he's still alive.
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Oh well I was going to leave it alone, but fuck it...
Mr. Blaque. I smell...pussy. With your fake ass name, fake email address, fake company name, et al. Back up your statement with some facts, kid. Don't start rumours and bullshit here or anywhere else. You probably work for Entertainment Weekly or Vibe or some shit, and you hate that STRESS puts out a better product than you ever could with a fraction of the budget.
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yes X, i know Oz is a Viacom property now. i was there when the deal was done. however, the real inside track is that Oz will be back. as for locales for shooting, i've seen where they plan to film. and unless you are HBO's chris albrecht (who's already made a decision on the show), i fondly suggest you check your sources again. love ya! |
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That Blaze battle was beyond wack, I haven't seen freestyles that wack since '93. Shit, what ever happened to good underground rappers. And is it just me or did all those beats need Viagra?? Real MC's can flow over anything, but damn, throw 'em a bone at least......Shells was cool, but he got ate by Headkrak outside of the Tunnel in like May. |
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Shells is tight, but he blundered the last round against "Bud Bundy" (good one shan) and made some really looked foolish for a minute. This Blaze Battle nonsense reminds me of what happened to Jazz music, when it started slipping away from black musicians and gave birth to Kenny G,Yanni (fake ass Sun-Ra), Dave Koz and easy listening jazz stations.
Rappers have to take battles more seriously and realize there is more on the line here, historically speaking. Damn, I sound like Talib Kweli... |
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yea OZ will be back in jan and the final season after that.... so u check your sources... pa |
hey, it's just so funny the way all of these EX AKA sites come to UE to validate how good of an Urban brand they really have. I aint hating but you guys are making it obvious. Lets see:
<<I mainly visit wodie.com's World Wide Wodie Forum>> Maybe.. Wodie does have a big message board, but that's it. I can't even access the site today, WTF?
<<http://www.backpackrap.com/interview.html >> Ayres from AKA's website.
<<http://www.hot104.com/oped.htm>> Another AKA website.
<<hiphopfanclub.com>> dude just loves to promote his site, which really doesn't have anything to it.
All I do is sit around and surf the net all day and look for this kind of shit. So before you all respond with dumb ass replies, No I don't have a life. Stop tryin to promote yo shit up in here.
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are you assuming that Blaze Battle represents rap music slipping away from black artists....
sorry!
Blaze Battle represents rap music coming back into the hands of Black artists...
Blaze Battle is black owned and opererated! |
oh by the FALXWON....
I've done my homework... logon to HipHopFanClub.com.... and you'll see the Official Home of Blaze Battle Online.
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Kevlon.
I apologize.
I've had a change of heart since lunch.
I shouldn't have called you pussy, I shouldn't curse at all.
The rest of my post stands.
Maybe it's PMS.
Or maybe I'm just a bitch. |
M.C battles are best left to streetcorners, outside nite-clubs, city buses and maybe, just maybe late nites at the office when muthafuckas is feelin' cocky... you know who you are. |
2 bisexual supermodel girlfriends that know about each other. (one Black, one Asian)
1 Destiny 125' megayacht (w/ jacuzzi and helicopter pad)
21 bedroom , 6 bathroom mansion with ridiculously large windows and waterfalls and shit like that ( in Aruba or some other Caribbean island) with a white baby grand piano sitting on top of a zebra rug or something or other.
Aston Martin DB7 Vantage-any fucking color
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Am I the only one that thinks both new albums by
Snoop are garbage? You be the judge:
www.deathrowrecords2000.com
P-Diddy "I am the blood dripping from Suge's knuckles."
The Gooch gets out in 4 months people are you AMPED?
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Modoe,
Do you have anything better to say in defense of the Blaze Battle other than its ownership? If not, case closed and refer back to my original post.
And thank you for getting the name right.
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somebody asked what happened to Notorious.com and the magazine. Basically, Puffy's legal problems scared off the advertisers, the publisher left, lights out.
Notorious.com never got beyond the concept stage other than a basic "subscribe to the magazine" form online, and a vaporware story in the NY Post in AUgust '99.
Hookt, however, was positioned even back then as a strategic partner to Notorious, so when it folded, Bad Boy went back to Hookt to partner in its current web strategy. |
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Modoe, I can't believe that you would say that the
<<Blaze Battle represents rap music coming back into the hands of Black artists... >>
when a white boy won the (I use the term very loosely) battle? Or, even better (since you are on your X-Clan kick), the battle wasn't broadcasted on a BLACK network?
Are you serious? I'll answer that for you, you can't be. You're just jerkin' my chain right? Maybe you are serious. That would make me feel pity :(
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I thoroughly enjoyed the Impact 24-7 article on UBO's civil war as Adam Kidron and Frank Cooper are battling over UBO's remaining assets. Their little riff is further evidence to me that corporate knuckleheads need to stay out of the web space. Big business fucks airthang up. It's happened in independent film and now they're fucking up the internet. I don't know bout y'all but I certainly hope there are more and more big-time corporate web failures to come. May seem mean-spirited but it's real. The space should be reserved for innovative thinkers. The shit these folks are pushing ain't innovative. Can I get an amen church? Church??!!
Anyhoo, back to your regularly scheduled discussion on whatever it is y'all talking bout.
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I admire the way Shyne refused to be intimidated on Politically Incorrect. Unlike countless rappers (Warren G, Canibus, Coolio, even Chuck D) who allowed themselves to be backed into a corner by Bill Maher's anti-Hip-Hop rants, Shyne wasn't having it. He certainly came off as analytical, if not introspective. His voice was definitely heard. |
MJ, you're hilarious! And right. It really is Ramadan. Can I ask why folks always expect Dateline/Vanity Fair articles on this site when they are all obviously written to inspire posting! If the articles are the only place you get your info, then you got pro'lems! It's all about the posting, wha! And for all of you who are about to start riffing on the negativity and yadayadaydada...as Isis said in the last article, balance it out instead of complaing. By the way, Darqbrown, I spoke to Mr. Tony D. Hit me up when you need to. |
Well, thank you for appreciating my comedic genius. HOWEVER - I can't take the credit this time, that is truthfully a Foxy Brown lyric. And I believe one of the worst and most whorish and most nasty lyrics of hers imaginable. She should be boycotted by righteous people everywhere. Oops, she already is!
It's so sad. She's actually a beautiful Asiatic Black Woman, however she got it fucked up somewhere and thought she was supposed to show 3/4 of skin, instead of rocking 3/4 of cloth. And the makeup...well we won't even talk about all that pork and whale oil sitting on top of the poor girl's epidermis...
Lawd have mercy.
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hey Darqbrown,
Here's a recent list of internet fumbles and flops.
Dot-Com Layoffs and Shutdowns
A comprehensive list of job cuts and closures among Web commerce, content and services companies, with links to relevant articles.
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Company Name Status Action
AllAdvantage.com
Online marketer Closely held; pulled IPO in June Laid off 100 in September
AltaVista
Search engine Unit of CMGI Set plans in mid-September to lay off 200, or about one-quarter of staff
APB Online
Operated crime site Sold to Safetytip.com for $575,000 in September In June, laid off all 140 employees; in July, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Auctions.com
Online auctioneer Unit of closely held Classified Ventures Ceased operations in August; Layoffs not disclosed
Beautyjungle.com
Cosmetics seller Closely held Laid off 40 workers, or 60% of work force, in October
Bigwords.com
Online textbook seller Closely held Closed down in October; laid off 100
Boo.com
Clothing retailer Brand name was acquired by Fashionmall; techno logy bought by Bright Station Entere d liquidation in May; laid off most of 370 employees at the time; Fashionmall relaun ched site in October
Boxman
Music retailer Closely held Shut down in October, laid off its 120 employees
CarOrder.com
Online auto seller Unit of Trilogy Development Suspen ded operations in August; laid off 100 of remaining 140 workers
ChamberBiz
Small-business portal Closely held Laid off about 40 of 50 employees in October
Chinadotcom
China portal Public; hit high of $156 in March, low of $6 in October Laid off 48, or 2.8%, in August
Chipshot.com
Golf-gear seller Closely held In October, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection
Clickmango
U.K. health site Closely held; backed by TV star Joanna Lumley Site shut down in September, putting about 20 employees out of work
Cozone.com
Computer retailer Unit of CompUSA Shut down in March
Deja.com
Buyers guide, discussions Closely held; pulled IPO plans in June Laid off 50 people, or one-third of staff, in September
Digital
Entertainment
Network
Web content Closely held Closed down in May
Drkoop.com
Health news, advice Public; stock peaked near $20 last Dec., now trades around $1 Laid off one-third of staff in May; cut remaining staff by another third in August, leaving about 80 employees
DrDrew.com
Dating, health advice Closely held; editor is MTV Loveline host Dr. Drew Pinsky; assets sold to Drkoop.com in November In September, laid off 14 of 20 remaining staffers, down from 70 three months earlier
Drugstore.com
Retailer Public; stock trades under $3, down from high of $55 in December In October, laid off 60 employees, or 10% of work force
Egreetings.com
Web retailer
Public; stock trades at under $1 a share; CEO resigned in October In October, said it plans to cut 60 jobs, or 34% of work force
Emusic.com
Music download site Public; stock trades at about $1, down from high of $19.63 in December Laid off 20% of work force, or about 40 employees, in June
Eve.com
Cosmetics retailer Closely held In October, announced it will shut down and let go almost all 164 employees
Firstlook.com
Movie, TV Previews Closely held; backed by idealab! Laid off 34 of its 103 employees in October
first-e group
Online bank Closely held Cut 69 jobs, or 17% of work force, in October
Fogdog.com
Sporting goods retailer Acquir ed by Global Sports in October for about $40 million in stock With the purchase, 125 jobs out of 150 were planned to be cut
Food.com
Online ordering, content Closely held, backed by heavyweights McDonald's, Kraft, TV Guide and Blockbuster In September, cut staff by 100, or 50%; laid off two senior executives
Foodline.com
Restaurant reservations
provider Closely held In August, cut staff by about 54
Free-Scholarships.com
Education-financing content Unit of MathSoft Closed down in September, eliminating 16 jobs
Freei Networks
Free Internet provider Rival Netzero acquired certain assets Filed for bankruptcy in October
Furniture.com Pulled IPO in June Laid off most remaining workers in November, set plans to shut down
Garden.com Went public in September '99; now trades under $1 Slashed work force by 93 people, or 30%, in September
Gear.com Backed by Amazon.com, Gear is now a unit of Overstock.com In September, firm lays off 22; in October, firm is bought by Overstock, which hires 45 remaining employees
Internet Pictures
360-degree imaging Public Cut 175 positions, or 20% of work force, in October
iXL Enterprises
Web consulting firm Public Elimin ated 350 positions in September
Kibu.com
Teen girls' site Closely held; was backed by Netscape co-founder Jim Clark Shut down site in October
Kozmo.com
Delivery service Closely held; pulled IPO in August Cut 24 jobs in June, then slashe d 275 jobs, or 10% of total, in August, then another 40 later in the month
Living.com
Furniture retailer Closely held; partner of Amazon.com and Starbucks In August, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and laid off 275 employees
Mail.com
E-mail provider Public Said in October it plans to lay off 15% of its 632 employees
Mall.com
Retail hub Closely held Cut 20 jobs, or 35% of staff, in August
MaMaMedia
Content for kids Closely held In June, laid off 30 of 150 workers; in October, laid off 40%, or about 40 people
Miadora
Online jeweler Closely held Closed site in September, laying off almost all 77 workers
More.com
Online pharmacy Closely held Cut staff by 30% in October, follows 20% reduction in June
Mortgage.com
Online mortgages Public Said in late October that it will close and lay off most of its 618 employees
MTVi
Music site Unit of Viacom; in Sept, pulled plans for IPO Cut 105 people, or 25% of work force, as it canceled IPO
MyPoints.com
Online marketing Public; merged with Cybergold this year Cut 120 jobs in October in wake of Cybergold purchase
NBCi
Community and content portal Public, formed by merger of Snap, Xoom and certain NBC assets; stock trades around $5, down from over $100 in January In August, cut 170 jobs, or 20% of staff; in October, presid ent quit; job won't be filled
News
Digital
Media Online media division of News Corp. Laid off about 15% of its news staff, or 82 jobs, Reuters reported in October
Next Media
Online publisher
Public; trades in Hong Kong In July, sacked 98 workers at its Web sites, appledaily.com and nextmedia.com; in October, cut another 90 jobs and closed 11 of its 25 Web sites; in October, unit AdMart Travel said it plans to shut down
OneMain.com
Internet service provider Acquired by Earthlink Said in April it plans to cut work force of 1,500 by 15% over next year
Onvia
Small-business hub Public In September, cut 85 positions, or about 16% of work force
Pandesic
E-commerce services Was joint venture of SAP and Intel Shut down in July; laid off all 400 workers
Petopia
Pet-supplies retailer Closely held; affiliated with Petco Laid off 120 employees, or 60% of its work force, in October
Pets.com
Pet-supplies retailer Public In November,said it will shut down and laid off about 255 of its 320 employees
PlanetRx.com Public Set plans to cut as much as 15% of work force, or up to 50 jobs, and move to Memphis, Tenn., from Calif.
Pop.com Closely held; backed by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard Closed operations, laid off 80 in September
Priceline.com Inc.
Name-your-own-price retailer Public Set plans in November to lay off 87 of its 535 employees
Priceline WebHouse
Gas, grocery site Closely held affiliate of Priceline.com Said in October it will close operations, putting 375 out of work
Productopia
Buying guide Closely held Closed down in October, putting about 70 people out of work
Pseudo
Programs
Web broadcaster Closely held Closed down in September, laying off 175 employees; had laid off 58 in June
Reel.com
Movie retailer Unit of Hollywood Entertainment Laid off all 150 employees in June, refers buyers to Buy.com
Renren Media
Chinese Web portal Public; News Corp. owns minority stake In August, laid off 102 workers, or 38% of work force
Scour
Online media file-sharing service Backers included talent manager Michael Ovitz; assets purchased by Listen.com in November Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October and said it will shut down; it laid off 80% of work force in September
Snowball.com
Teen content Public In third quarter, cut work force by about 15%, or 50 people
Shockwave.com Unit of Macromedia Laid off 20 of its 170 employees in September
Space.com
Outer space content Closely held; run by former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs In October, cuts 22 jobs, or about 20% of work force
SportsYA!
Sports site Closely held Cut staff by 25% to 150 in October
Stamps.com
Online postage Public; trades under $5 a share; CEO and CFO resigned in October Cut about 240 jobs in October, or about 40% of the total
Stan Lee
Media
Online animation Public Eliminat ed 19 positions as part of outsourcing deal in September
Supertracks
Online music distributer Closely held Laid off about 40 employees, or a third of its workers, in September
StarMedia
Latin american portal Public Cut 125 jobs, or 15%, in September
theglobe.com
Web community Public, trades at under $1 a share Cut 51 jobs in third quarter
Techies.com Closely held; withdrew IPO plans in May Laid off 60 employees, or 12% of staff, in June
Tom.com
Hong Kong
portal
Public; trades in Hong Kong Laid off 80 people, or 16% of staff, in July; unit GoChinaGo cut 50 jobs in August
Toysmart Controlled by Disney Site shut down in May; firm filed for Chapter 11 in June
Urban Box Office
Urban content hub Closely held Filed for bankruptcy and laid off most of 330 workers in November
Urbanfetch.com
Delivery service Closely held; stoppe d delivering movies in September and exited consumer market entirely in October Made substantial, undisclosed cuts of 400-strong New York staff; cut all 60 jobs in London
Value
America
Retailer In October, signed letter of intent to sell most assets to Merisel Filed for Chapter 11 in August; laid off 185 employees
WebMD
Health site Public; formed by merger of Healtheon, WebMD, CareInsite, others Announ ced plans in September to cut 1,100 jobs; co-CEO Arnold resign ed in October
Worldsport
Sports site Closely held Shut down site
Xenote
Song 'bookmarking' technology Closely held Closed down in September
Xceed
E-business consultant Public; stock peaked at $48 in Jan., now trades around $1 Said in September that it will cut 75 jobs, or 12% of work force
Xpedior
Web consulting firm Public; 80% owned by PSINet, which is looking to sell the stake In September, cut 270 jobs, including 200 consultants
Z.com Closely held; backed by idealab In October, cut half its staff of 95
Zip2.com Unit of CMGI In October, firm said about 140 employees would either be switched to other CMGI jobs or let go
Source: WSJ.com research
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hey, it's just so funny the way all of these EX AKA sites come to UE to validate how good of an Urban brand they really have. I aint hating but you guys are making it obvious. Lets see:
I mainly visit wodie.com's World Wide Wodie Forum>> Maybe.. Wodie does have a big message board, but that's it. I can't even access the site today, WTF?
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WTF? I'm not even in the hip-hop web site business. I've been on UE before AKA shut down. I visited the platform.net site and the others that were posted here and I noticed that they all have dead message boards. So, I stated how their message boards are dead and that the only hip-hop message board I frequent is wodie's, because it isn't dead. so just shut the fuck up, you stupid ass monkey balls licking fag.
If you want to talk to the person who owns wodie. go the site and address him, but don't post any shit about me being some wack ass former AKA affiliate.
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Okay Kevlon.
I'm done with you.
You've shown and proven yourself to be a clueless, misinformed idiot who chooses to speak in twistytongue.
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Falxy Baby.
<< when a white boy won the (I use the term very loosely) battle? >>
Eyedea is a dope MC. That's why he won. Real MCs don't care about color it's about skills on the mic.
That's the purpose of Blaze Battle it's flippin' the script. I've ready on UE several times about how Hip-Hop is "wack" now. Blaze Battle is bringing something different to the table... no champagne, no ice, no range rovers! Just skills.
And still... it's not good enough.
Tell us what you think should happen. Tell us what the urban market needs. You maybe the missing link. You never know.
If Blaze Battle turns out to be "wack" atleast an attempt was made.
You should watch it on HBO on Friday Night at 1:10 am.
And logon to www.HipHopFanClub.com/BlazeBattle
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<<If you want to talk to the person who owns wodie. go the site and address him, but don't post any shit about me being some wack ass former AKA affiliate>>
I don't know why I should waste a second responding to your obviously still in High School ass, but, I never said you were wack, or that you were affiliated with Wodie at all, you jack ass. |
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hey mj--
me tarzan and you...jane!
i love you miranda jane!
aka is hiring down at lax. are you ready to sell ex-lax? how about oil of ole, you silky sow.
silky sow
me tarzan, you miranda jane. meet me in the bush. there's blood on my face. |
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you did address me you dumb bitch, because I was the only one in this thread to say: I mainly visit wodie's message board.
and why would you say this to someone who isn't affiliated with the site:
"Stop tryin to promote yo shit up in here."
one minute it's my shit, now it's not? bitch, get some logic.
and what do you call this?
"hey, it's just so funny the way all of these EX AKA sites come to UE to validate how good of an Urban brand they really have. I aint hating but you guys are making it obvious. Lets see: "
If my quote is the first one you list after "Lets see", then you're obviously talking about me you stupid cum guzzling faggot.
go get a life already, there are bitches (i mean fags since your porch monkey ass "swings" that way) out there waiting to be fucked -- so go get laid already.
and don't ever address me again in one of you herb ass posts, cause I might have to come up there and smack your ho ass around. i'm tired of you i-net muthaeffers thinking y'all cyber thugs and shit.
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Ok, the lead story for this article could have been better, but you can't win them all. Bring on pt.2....puleeeeze!!!!!!!!!
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OK, the posts here were more entertaining and more informative than this article. Tighten it up Crispus. Bring on pt.2.
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Modoe,
First, ease up with the "Falxy baby" nonsense. I don't get down like that. You certainly sound like a "Mo doe" talkin' like that.
Second, stop shouting out the Blaze Battle and hiphopfanclub.com. It has become tiresome. If you love that site so much... go there and stay there. I am sure there is a message board for special education or something.
Third, Eyedea is WACK. Yes, I pulled the race card, too. He is a wack white boy. Sure there are one or two dope white rappers. He ain't one of them. And if you are so concerned with the state of black folks in hip hop, don't d*ickryde Eyedea. Have some principles.
Fourth, I never speak on anything I don't know about. I saw the 2000 Blaze Battle already. At 1:10 am this friday I will not be in the house watching TV (Two words: social life).
Fifth, I don't have the magic bullet to cure hip hop. No one person does.
And finally, go alllllllll the way back and read my original post. That shit should be the gospel to you by now. You do not have a point and I feel like I am wasting good sarcasm on this side topic and you. I will no longer discuss this with you because you obviously have nothing to say. Now, from now you can watch from the sidelines as I wax poetic with the rest of the grown-ups. Any reply you post will be seen as hurt feelings, so don't bother.
This may have to go down as a chin-check.
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but logon on the hiphopfanclub.com and watch the Blaze Battle on HBO this Friday.
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What's up everyone, I know this ain't a regular forum but I just wanted to know what you think of my site www.hiphopgame.com I need some feedback. Doin' this by myself, poor french kid but I love hip hop to death. Yeah I know I have aka banners so what? they bring me hits!. If anyone wants to participate to my site, get in touch. I'm not doing this for the money just for love
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Positive Vibrations:
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between 7th & 8th Avenues
Sweet 924
November 28 - December 4, 2000
Peaceful Journey ...
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ONE LOVE ONE,
www.socialstep.com
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Don't be so sure, X. Anything can happen. |
Ugh.
Socialstep.com and tastemakers.com are one in the same. Party and bullshit.
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MJ, I knew the lyric. But it takes a true artist to put it into context. I meant the WHOLE wierd exchange thing is funny. One day we will all know what Foxy's complexion really looks like. And the world will be ours. And Darqbrown, bullshit has to go before party. Cause that's usually how it goes. |
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shaan,
speaking of socialsteps.com, they have a link to vindigo.com, a service for PDA devices that gets updates on the haps in the city (or any city) by hot sync to their home site. Have you tried it, and does it have where a bro can find the best jerk chicken spots and quarter waters in BK or is it booty? I had Zagat but I found myself going places that were not catering to the "ethnic palette" (actual quote from Zagat). Zagat's similar PDA service for clubs and restaurants consistently gives low marks and discouraging comments to places that are inherently "ethnic".
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ATTENTION SNITCHES AND STOOL PIGEONS
http://www.americasmostwanted.com/site/thisweek/20001104/griffithchiali20001104.html
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You're right T.Tara. Bullshit and party.
Oh yeah...check you e-addy mas tarde. Aight? |
Stooooool pigeon...ah cha cha cha...
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I know I'm not the only one who remembers that Kid Creole and the Coconuts jam? |
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Not to get off subject but did anyone see that story about the friend chicken head found in a McDonalds meal?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7669-2000Nov30.html
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At least it was chicken. I found a partial rodent
tail and the ass in my chicken from KFC on Empire
Blvd in B.K. Hey, go out for fast food and you end
up getting a little head and some ass to go. At least
they didn't run into ODB who's currently enjoying a
hearty helping of Philadelphia dick cheese steaks.
I'm glad to see UE step it up in the smart ass commentary
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falxwon,
I suggest you try the jerk chicken spot next to
the Baskin Robbins on Nostrand and Church in B.K.,
but I warn you don't piss off the grill guy. That
bastard has some special sauce for your ass that you
want no parts of. Save the quarter and drink city
punch for free. Don't forget to floss. Your teeth,
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Thank you Triple T. I'm glad someone is listening, and making comments that make sense.
This Kevlon cat is starting to freak me out a little bit, like he's going to cut out my liver and eat it hot from the body with some fava beans and a good chianti. But I'm sure that's his intent anyway.
I'm shook, Kev. |
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Is socialstep.com URBAN? I mean it's a party
listing site and they're making dough off the listings,
cater to an urban constituency and have been in
operation since 96', but their site looks like shit
and yet their distribution list is ridiculous.
hmmmm...is everyone taking notes?
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Yo Shaan,
Good lookin on the jerk chicken info. Being originally from Illadelph I don't mind some damn good directions when it comes to bustin a grub. No Flossin' except for teeth. That's a standard ghetto rule, it's in the handbook. Although, for all those foul peeps on UE, in Philly there's a place called Nappy Nikki's that serves up Chitlin Hoagies. I'm gonna FedEx a couple around to some folks (you know who you are).
Socialstep.com looks like one of those hyped up Geocities sites with moderately decent html and bootylicious content. Sweaty peeps at parties piks. It would be fly if that site was as bling as the events they haunt. All the piks look like bad proms. Where are the piks with the airbrushed backgrounds of ghetto-fab celebs and cars, oh snap! Wicker chairs! Where the fuck are the piks of peeps sitting in wicker chairs!
And a update on Philly events on the site wouldn't hurt either. Hell, bring the site into this century.
aiight, I am 'bout to roll out and grab up some jerk chicken (leave de head in de pot, please mon) and an authentic www.friedchickenhead.com baby t-shirt for my No.1 chickenhead.
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On second thought, socialstep.com is hella urban on principle alone. I just like bustin jokes on it because it's easy to do on a site that looks like that. Shit, they gotta be doin' something right to get distribution lists that tower over that of inde zines and rival distribution/sales figures of many a corny rapper.
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Chicken McNoggin, Hold the Fries!
That is the funniest freakin' head [line, that is] I've seen in a long time.
hahahahahaha! HYSTERICAL. Woo...Can't stop laughing. Wooo! And to think, I thought they were frying up cat meat. |
From: crispus@html.net [mailto:crispus@html.net]
Sent: *******, 2000 5:07 PM
To: wwwac@lists.wwwac.org
Subject: [wwwac] HELP: Urban Entertainment site with IE/NS issues
Greetings and Salutations
I'm having really nasty problems with the cross-platform compatibility of my site (www.urbanexpose.com). I'm pretty sure its either the tables or the stylesheets causing the problem but I can see anything wrong with the tags.
Here are the problems, in Netscape the article headers are not displaying,
Netscape also does not accept the font commands and formats the tables different then IE.
I've tested the site using IE 5 and Netscape 4.5, the site was built using fireworks and dreamweaver, the server is using .php for html generation. All extra eyes, ideas and input on whats wrong with urbanexpose.com will be
accepted
and appreciated.
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Cris,
To make your site netscape 4 compatible, you will have to embed the the face attributes in the <font> tag
<font face=arial, etc>
If you leave out the face, you will get times new roman text. Netscape 4 don't know how to fucking process CSS tags correctly. Also netscape 4 draws a blank if the tables are not correct, go into IE, turn table border=1 on and look at what tables are messed up.
Netscape 4 is the shittiest browser ever developed.....ever.... |
Free ads in Oneworld? Does that mean Johns Passmore is working at Hookt now? |
Hey, I'm down with any black websites that are trying to do it, but I can say one thing, I ain't pleased at all with Hookt and those damn pop up ads. I'm trying to get the skinny on their Master P story and what happens? The Phillips Rush ad keeps coming up....over and over and over. Enough already! If I click it off the first time, I don't want to see it again.
I can understand if I hit the back button and it pops up, but not while I'm reading the damn story!
It's a good chance I won't be checking them out many more times. |
Y'all need to check out the www.hiphopgame.com site.. So far looking good.. (This is for the french yout that wanted info about his site!)
Also.. check out www.rushmag.com.. |
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miranda jane...
you're the one who came vile and juvenile, sweetness. you can quote foxy brown all day, but she's still wack. everyone knows that. she's the one who decided to sell her pussy cheaper than them $49 scooters that the people are buying, so i don't feel sorry for her trick ass. but you, computer hag (look how much ue clout you have; get a life, trick) are a sorry sow. point blank.
as for stress or any other independant venture, i wish 'em the best. and if it doesn't work out for the folks at stress, i know you're like, manager at kinko's. you've got a lot of juice, and i know you'll put them on. |
Kevlon,
Don't front...managers at Kinko's got mad pull and they get profit sharing. T'wouldn't be an insult. |
I suspect Kevlon A. Blaque is a teenager that is pretty smart. |
P.S. Spell check...Independent
and stop hating on MJ. When you're witty,you're pretty, but when you come on the misogynist tip you're just straight FOOGLY!
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A teenager in need of a butt shot of Ritalin |
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sorry, people. you're right.
independent--funny. you got me.
sorry again. i should not say mean things about my sisters. but she started the beef...honest!
urban expose a great place to make friends. i won't trouble my friends any longer.
sorry, miranda jane. i didn't mean to play you (and myself). |
Oh, so sweet! Apologies and the whole enchilada.
It's all good. Smooches. |
ALLLLLRIGHT NOW!!!!!
MAKING UP IS GOOD AND MAKES US ALL FEEL MUSHY INSIDE. BUT A NEW EXPOSE WILL MAKE US ALL FEEL SPECIAL.
SEEMS LIKE SINCE UBO SHUTDOWN, THE EXPOSES' HAVE LOST THEIR UMMMPH!!!!!! |
this board is a wack place to make friends
so does hookt geting platform mean there are layoffs on the way |
MS. Miranda Jane,
Actually, just to add insult to injury..Ms. Foxy "stank to the max" Brown...isn't even an Asiatic Black Woman...SHE'S A FREAKING TRINI! That's right, she's a Trinidadian, guess being "Part Filipino or Chinese" would add to her mystique or something...Lord knows she has nothing to impress me about.
Kevlon, WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF WACK ASS NAME IS THAT?
Actually, I wish to enlighten y'all (if you even still care) about another wonderful caring thing UBO did for all of it's employees. They waited till November 23rd to send out a letter telling 350 plus employees (one of whom was myself), that our COBRA coverage would expire on November 30th. Anyone who has half a brain knows, that in order to get continuous coverage with another company or even the same one, you have to have your paperwork and first payment in by the 15th of the prior month to be covered for the 1st of the next. Therefore, 350 employees, had they been notified earlier, could have been covered for health insurance immediately if they chose to...and now can't be covered till January 1st.
That...is fucking ridiculous. After those stupid motherfuckers ran their sorry ass company into the ground, don't you think that that they KNEW THAT THEY COULDN'T KEEP A HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY OR COBRA PLAN EFFECTIVE? Guess that required another stupid meeting with a stale nasty bagel platter from Sundance...
Did they ever think of the people? Nah, not even some women I know who were pregnant and about to give birth......
I hope that UBO never gets out from under and I know that they are still trying to reorganize and the likes and rape a bunch of talented people further.
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eCritical iMinded:
"us" = ?
U & U R Conscience ... ore ... ?
Rasta Far Eye & U2 x 724 =
Peaceful Journey .e.
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kevlon, with the crazy-diesel ue clout (thanks former vibe staffer!)
says i love you for dissing my nubian name.
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..And it goes a little something like this...
The following is an interpolation from the "10 Crack Commandments" by the Notorious B.I.G. keep that beat in your head as you read:
10 DOTCOM COMMANDMENTS
I been in this game for years
It made me a animal
There's rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual
A step by step booklet, for you to get
Your game on track, not your dot com pushed back
Rule number one, always play this game for fun
Watching the Matrix while programmin cold fusion dont make you The One
Cashing a big check don’t mean that you catchin wreck
Listen to what the Wu said and just protect ya neck
Number 2, never let 'em know your next move
Don't you know bad boys move in silence with silence
Take it from your highness, uh huh
I performed mad Jedi mindtricks on these "urban" cats, for they ram and chips
Number 3, never trust nobody
Your CEO set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodied and masked up, for that fast buck
he be layin in the conference room to light that ass up
Friends and co-workers have things they afraid face to face to say,
Uploaded next day on Urban Expose
Number four, know you heard this before
Dont believe the hype, of your own MS Word type
Number five, always know the terms of the deal
A signed piece of paper aint worth $20 mil, trying to keep it real
Nino Brown ran the Carter so Phuck that ex-Navy seal
Urban is defined as pertaining to the characteristic of the city
Trying to control it and not know it ,makes it a pity
Level playing field , come with what whatever you got
You cant define us with them 3 W's or that muthaphucking dot
Number six, never ever fall for tricks
I know plenty websites with the same free javascripts,
SVP’s/Web Producers all cocky and bold, never taught but always told
need to back their shit up with the basic knowledge of HTML code
Seven, this rule is so underated
Keep your fly women and business completely separated
Money and sex don't fit , like two male serial cables, and no interconnect bitch
Find yourself in serious shit
Number eight, never keep no ones New Jack dream alive for except for you
Them british cats that wish they were blak can hold nightmares true
Its a "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" to wait
4 days to announce the companys bankruptcy fate
Number nine should've been number one to me
If you ain't with due diligence, stay the fuck from VC's
If niggas think you slippin, they ain't tryna listen
youll be settin up for hiring
They Waitin to start firing
Number ten, a term called “set new trends”
Strictly for live sites, not for wacksites
If you ain't got the next shit vision, say hell no
Cause investors gonna' want they money , rain, sleet, hail, snow
Follow these rules, you'll have mad bread to break up
If not,no IPO on the wake-up
Empty box office, watch your frames shake up
Brown Eyed Intelligence with code and rap
Back my mindspray up on Operation: FILETAP
Was down with UBO from the start until it fell,
But im ok cause I can still think and link my thoughts up in html
Gotta go, gotta go, more files to hack up
Peace
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