11 posts and columns on elections

Mike Bloomberg Sings! With Help From Nick Jonas. (Video)

in News on April 1 at 12:30 pm PT

At least one of these guys will grace the D10 stage in a couple months.
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Votizen Gets a Celebrity Round of Funding to Connect Social Media and Politics

in Social on February 23 at 9:21 pm PT

The latest political donation in this election year, from Sean Parker, Ashton Kutcher and other celebrity tech investors, is a $750,000 convertible note to political social network Votizen.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mall in Seoul (Video)

in News on October 28, 2011 at 4:15 am PT

AllThingsD’s Ina Fried was headed to dinner during her trip to Seoul on Monday when she ran into a crowd of Koreans line dancing. Apparently, this is the Korean political system in action.
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Multitouch Pioneer Jeff Han Starts to Think Small (Devices)

in Mobile on December 13, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Jeff Han has been a pioneer in multitouch, but he is best known for his work on big screens, such as creating the touch wall used by CNN. Now, he’s beginning to apply some of his talents to the mobile space, with his first mobile efforts likely to surface early next year.

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Election 2010: Facebook Fan Favorites Fare Well

in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Well, what do you know–in elections, the most popular candidate usually wins. True in the real world, and apparently true in the virtual world. Plumbing its community sentiment for political insights (as it did all Election Night on ABC), Facebook today noted that in 98 key U.S. House races, the candidate with the most Facebook fans won 74 percent of the time. In 34 Senate races, the figure was 82 percent. Lots more fun facts on the site.

"Changing the World Through the Web": Video Interviews with Zuckerberg, Kutcher, Rospars and Shah

in News on October 28, 2009 at 7:19 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown moderated a panel at California’s Women’s Conference titled “Changing the World Through the Web” for a crowd of several thousand people. The panelists included Hollywood actor/producer, Katalyst co-founder and Twitter demigod Ashton Kutcher; Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, who leads the social networking site’s elections, breaking news and social change initiatives; Premal Shah, president of online microloan site Kiva.org; and Joe Rospars, founder and creative director of Blue State Digital and new media director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Here are video interviews I did with each of them.
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Icahn Announces Proxy Bid for Technorati 100

in News on June 19, 2008 at 11:05 am PT

Carl Icahn’s a busy guy–busier than usual lately penning broadsides against Yahoo. So he can be forgiven the 138-day delay in lauching “Icahn Report,” the blog he announced back in February. Earlier today the blog offered nothing more than a placeholder page, but a few moments ago it went live with Icahn’s promised anecdotes on “the desultory state of corporate governance in America.” And, specifically, Yahoo.