BlackPlanet

Blackplanet.com
Company typeSocial networking company
Founded1999[1]
FounderBenjamin Sun
Omar Wasow
Headquarters
205 Hudson Street, 6th Floor
New York, New York
,
USA
OwnerUrban One
Websiteblackplanet.com

BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings. The company website also contains forums for discussion of political and social issues.[2]

BlackPlanet was launched by internet analyst Omar Wasow on September 1, 2001. Wasow had previously created a pre-web community dubbed New York Online in 1993 with Community Connect's CEO, Benjamin Sun.[2]

  1. ^ "Blackplanet.com". Archived from the original on October 11, 1999. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Corcoran, Cate R. (2004-04-01), "BlackPlanet's Universe" (PDF), Stanford Magazine, retrieved 2011-04-19