Global Grind

09.30.2009

Global Grind

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About Global Grind:


Global Grind is the hotspot linking you to web content that puts you up on things you need to know. There's a lot of information out there, but getting to the important content is probably taking up more time then you have to spend. That's where we come in. Global Grind brings together people like you. People who know what interests you, topics that stir up controversy and content that might make you laugh (or cry). Alongside our staff, the GG community brings the most relevant and intriguing stories; those that are essential to the survival of our community. Yes, it's that serious.

Featuring thousands of articles, photos and videos, GG makes it easier to find (and share) what you want to see on the web. Global Grind puts you in the center, so you get the best of the web; the world according to hip-hop.


Additional Information:


Visitors to Global Grind, which launched in beta on September 26, can choose RSS feeds, widgets, and other content -- confined within windows called "grinds" -- from categories such as entertainment, gossip, and "politricks" that are organized into tabs on their homepage. The layout is similar to other Ajax-based aggregators such as NetVibes, Pageflakes, and Google's iGoogle. But Global Grind has the advantage of a $4.5 million investment from hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, and venture capitalist Jim Breyer, whose company Accel Partners also funded Facebook.

According to last year's study by MarketResearch.com, this investment, too, holds great promise. The study estimated that the urban community has 24 million members and a purchasing power of $500 billion. Navarrow Wright, Global Grind's CEO, says he can attract more users than popular hip-hop sites such as SOHH.com, which, according to him, have not yet broken through a ceiling of four to six million users.

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