Posts Tagged with ‘politics’

As part of the ongoing series about politics in social media, we turn our sites to political web site Ameritocracy. To its credit, this site differs somewhat from other political social sites. It doesn't try to be a strict social network around political candidate or opinion. It has a twist to help it stand out.
What Ameritocracy does is focus on what the candidates say. They are a quote submission, searching, rating, debating and sourcing site. Users log in, create [...]

Cloud computing is one of the latest buzzwords to circulate through social media circles. Cloud computing could be the key to a true global society and economic growth, but international politics is holding it back. Defining cloud computing to someone who doesn't live and breathe the heady air of the Web 2.0 bubble can be difficult. Explaining why it is affected by international borders and political issues demands an understanding of what cloud computing is.
Cloud computing is [...]

Barack Obama and Ron Paul aren't the only two politicians who've made the most out of Web 2.0 tools in running their campaigns. Just like her Western counterparts, 89-year-old grandmother and Malaysian parliament candidate Maimun Yusuf has turned to the Internet for her campaign, fighting for a parliament seat controlled by Malaysian's current ruling coalition.
Maimun has 7 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and is registered as an independent candidate. With very little money, she has turned to supporters (24 volunteers) to [...]

Tossing its hat into the ring of political web 2.0 applications and social networks, If I'm President (in alpha mode) wants you to share your political views. As part of my ongoing series on Politics and Web 2.0, I decided to check it out. Earlier in the series I look at sites like 20DC, VocalNation, ElectionTV, Essembly, Maplight and the individual candidate social sites. How did If I'm President compare?
It lost a few points right away for visual presence. [...]

There are a few political social networks out there in this tech savvy election year. We've already reviewed a few of them for this series, and today we turn our sights to Essembly. Essembly began as a place for people to find like-minded people on the political spectrum, as well as a place to get political news and information from all sides of a debate.
The moment you sign up you are presented with a series of “Resolves” to vote [...]

Our politics and social networking series continues with a focus on the tech savvy candidates who have decided to host their own social network or work within an existing social network to communicate with their supporters. Perhaps the most well known of these is Barack Obama with his own network, but even unexpected candidates have harnessed the power of the social web.
Barack Obama's MyBarackObama network harnesses the community of the internet to power a grass roots online movement without [...]

Social Networking and Web 2.0 are changing the face of politics. This year you no longer have to rely on outdated news outlets or slow newspapers, nor do you need to depend on television news channels with an obvious party bias. You can get all of your candidate information delivered to you 24-7 via the Web 2.0 application of your choice.
How is Web 2.0 bringing candidates to you? For starters, there is Twitter. You can immediately tell which candidates [...]

We all know of Google?s established time limit for user-submitted material to be uploaded to YouTube. Ten minutes. That?s it. No more. Have a good twenty minutes or more of highlights from that Little League baseball game you?ve wanted to share with the extended family via the video host? It ain?t happening. At least not in one whole shot. Long-form podcasts? Nien!
And we all know why the cutoff point was established some time ago. To combat piracy and copyright violations [...]

LiveJournal has been around since 1999 as a “standby” of blogging and social networking. Yesterday Six Apart (which owns LJ) agreed to sell the company to SUP a Russian online media company. The complete terms of the deal are not available but SUP will evidently create an American management company to manage the social network's operations. Media company buyouts have been abundant in a sort of “feeding frenzy” for social media traffic and I think we can expect [...]