"Oops": Rick Perry's Viral Classic Hits a Million Views Overnight
What will the viral video guys track once the Republican primaries are over? But yes, for the record: Rick Perry’s on-stage brain leak last night has quickly become one of the Web’s biggest hits....
View ArticleFacebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users' Political Sentiments
Counting Twitter mentions would have you believe that Ron Paul is the most popular Republican candidate in the ongoing U.S. primaries. Umm, right. But some social media analysis of politics is going...
View ArticleThe President of the United States Visits Intel Again (Video)
The president of the United States loves Intel. A day after delivering his annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Obama paid the second visit of...
View ArticlePulse Creates a One-Stop Shop for Election News
Want to pull yourself out of the “filter bubble” and read political news from a wide variety of sources? You might try Pulse’s new election section. The mobile news-reading app has compiled some 25...
View ArticleIPO Mafias, BODM and Brands Born From the U.S. Election: Three Mobile Trends...
With more than one month of 2012 down and still two weeks to go until the largest mobile and gaming industry trade shows — Mobile World Congress and Game Developers Conference — here are three trends...
View ArticleWhen Will Social Media Elect a President?
The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 took place over seven venues, with 10,000-20,000 attendees and no microphones. One candidate would speak for an hour, followed by a 90-minute rebuttal and then a...
View ArticleHere Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly...
View ArticleRemember Obama's National Broadband Plan? Neither Does Anyone Else.
Like it or not, 2012 is an election year in the U.S. That means there is, and will be, a great deal of political rhetoric slung in multiple directions — lots of speeches and debates; lots of ads, both...
View ArticleSticks and Stones: Third Point Launches "Value Yahoo" Blog (Which Does Not...
In another high-profile parry in its increasingly aggressive proxy fight against Yahoo, activist shareholder Third Point has launched an extensive Web blog to support its case with investors called...
View ArticleAmerica’s Town Hall Moves Online
Almost four years ago, the United States experienced the first national election in which social media was seen by many as the key that opened the door to the White House and, no doubt, it will play a...
View ArticleVotizen Live Dashboard Gives Structure to Endless Streams of Political Tweets
If you’ve been following the U.S. presidential election through your social media friends, you may have gotten the sneaking suspicion that everything people say is filtered through their preexisting...
View ArticleHow Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question
Toward the end of last night’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, asked a perfectly legitimate question, one that Obama himself...
View ArticleViral Video: The 2012 Celeb Singalong for Obama
In 2008, a group of well-known singers crafted the music video, “Yes, We Can” to support the then fresh-faced Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Now, as the days to the election count...
View ArticleAfter Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting
Holding an election is complicated. Holding an election eight days after a historically significant disaster? Probably exponentially so. This is the circumstance in which the state of New Jersey will...
View ArticleOne Last Pre-Election Chat With Pundit Slayer Nate Silver
Yes, there’s Obama versus Romney today. But many of you are going to be at least as excited about Nate Silver versus the Commentariat. Here, via Stephen Colbert, is one last conversation with the...
View ArticleYep, There Have Been Problems With Email Voting in New Jersey
As might have been expected, that idea to let displaced voters in New Jersey cast their ballots by email isn’t working out so well. First there are the technical issues. People requesting voting...
View ArticleNew Jersey Gives Its E-Voters -- and Voting Officials -- More Time
Voters in New Jersey who have been displaced by Hurricane Sandy now have until 8 pm Friday to return their email and fax ballots under a directive issued by the state’s lieutenant governor. The order...
View ArticlePost-Election, CrunchGov's Ferenstein Talks About What's Up Next for Tech and...
Even though the results are not in yet, no matter who wins in this most contentious and dead-heat of elections, what happens afterwards is something to start thinking about for the tech sector. The...
View ArticleHere's What the New York Times' Nate Silver Traffic Boom Looks Like
You thought we were done talking about Nate Silver today? Think again! Here, for instance, is an excellent piece by the New Republic’s Marc Tracy, which details the huge spike in traffic the New York...
View ArticleSo, Mitt Romney Doesn't Think the iPad Is Just a Consumption Device, Either
Critics of the iPad have long tried to position the popular Apple tablet as just a toy, something for watching a movie, but not serious work. Apple has been working hard to counter that notion, but the...
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