Will web viewsers touch MC Hammer's Dancejam.com?
Published: Thursday, January 03, 2008
-CHUCK CARLINVILLE- TECH & MEDIA CONTRIBUTOR The biggest rapper of all time back in the 90's MC Hammer who burned through millions of dollars supporting everyone in his hood, is now trying his luck via the Internet with a new start up called DanceJam.com. The former rapper who serves as Chief Strategy Officer already landed $1 Million in start up capital. Hammer may be on to something here. Rupert Murdoch may one day take notice and want to slap DanceJam together with K-solo.com, the karaoke website News Corp swallowed a little while back.The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet's hub for sharing and watching dance videos. DanceJam then hopes to make money by grabbing a piece of the rapidly growing Internet advertising market, which is expected to rake in $27.5 billion in 2008, according to eMarketer. MC Hammer's next act: Tech entrepreneur [AP] Labels: Digital_Media, Newscorp, TechMedia |




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Anonymous said ... (11:33 AM) :
post a commentLets hope he doesn't burn through that million.