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President-elect Barack Obama has started posting weekly video addresses on YouTube. As president, Obama will will deliver both the traditional weekly radio address and a weekly YouTube address. The “weekly fireside coffee talks” are a throwback to FDR, who delivered 30 evening radio addresses between 1933 and 1944 (Wikipedia: Fireside chats).
I think the weekly YouTube [...]
If you don’t use Google Reader or don’t know what it is, then you should watch this video:
This video is by the people at Common Craft, who are experts at explaining technology. One of their best and most popular videos is Twitter in Plain English. I actually think that video helped increase Twitter usage!
Facebook is notorious for launching features seemingly without any user research. In 2006, Facebook launched the “News Feed”, which led to an unprecedented backlash in social networking. Ironically, two years later it seems that all Facebook users have gotten acclimated to the News Feed and now enjoy the feature. (It was actually the lack of [...]
The 2008 election is the first to harness the power of user-generated content. The Internet is causing a renewal of interest with young voters unlike any Rock the Vote movement could provide. I thought it would be interesting to compile some of my favorite pro-candidate YouTube videos.
“We Are The Ones” by Will.i.am
Will.i.am was the [...]
This (French) visualization shows what the most popular social networks are around the world. I’ve always found it interesting how some regions will rally around a certain social network, even though others have clear benefits.
(larger image on Le Monde.fr; via Neatorama via Geek Like Me)
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