Our customer Radio-One - continues to rock. Or shall I say hip-hop?

Last week we went live with OnOne - their new social network, built on PeopleAggregator. Please notice BTW how radically different the OnOne UI is from our generic demo UI. That’s called CSS and our templating system.

The backend is totally decoupled from the front-end. As many times as I tried to explain that to certain TechCrunch writers - they didn’t seem to grok it. Hopefully they will now.

This week we went live with NewsOne - a content channel built on a new aggregator/pages system we built for them.  This system has a ‘Vignette-style’ giant CMS behind it, allowing editors, publishers, media folks, etc - all to work in tandem - with special editorial objects, collections, media management, workspaces, etc.  This CMS integrates the content channels (or which they’ll eventually be 5+, the social networks (we’ve started with one - more coming) and all these widgets - which we’ll be ‘distributing to the wind’.

This effort was led by Paolo Valdemarin and his team in Gorizia, Italy as well as Manish Dhingra and a team in Gurgaon, India. Congrats to both teams on the hard work they put into making this possible!

And now today - they announced they bought BlackPlanet - to get the inventory going.

They’re building a Black/Urban ad network.

We got several more content channels coming for them including: theUrbanDaily and HelloBeautiful.

Oh and congrats to Gaurav Bhatnagar and the team in Gurgaon that got OnOne going and live - with a completely new UI front-end! And to Phil Pearson, Tony Fader and Mark Garey for their hard work - as well! I’ve learned more about db replication and hot swap systems then I ever knew I wanted to know!

And of course to David Levitt, Zoron Medic and Martin Spernau as well. And to the ultimate homeboys - Brian Colbert and Chad Williams.

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