BlackPlanet
BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings; it also has forums for discussion on political and social issues.
| Company type | Social networking company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Benjamin Sun Omar Wasow |
| Headquarters | 205 Hudson Street, 6th Floor , New York, New York USA |
| Owner | Urban One |
| Website | blackplanet |
BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an Internet analyst, who in 2001 was running "New York Online", a pre-web community he started in 1993 with Community Connect's CEO Benjamin Sun. Launched in 1999, it was a relative latecomer to social media sites.
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