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Obama Gives a Shout-Out to MEET, the Israeli-Palestinian Youth Tech Project
The MIT-backed effort was one of the original Global Voices chosen for D: Dive Into Mobile.
Unpredictable, Agile, and Short
Campaigns are serious tests of your creativity and foresight. They are unpredictable, agile, and short — an 18 month, $1 billion, essentially disposable organization. Hackers can thrive in an environment like that, to a point where I’m not sure anyone else really can. Everything is over far too quickly to get boring.
– Scott VanDenPlas, lead DevOps for Obama, in an email to Ars Technica about the relative IT efficiencies of the Obama and Romney campaigns
Dan Stands Alone
Election night television, it seems, hasn’t changed much in the past four years — the same guys in the same bad suits, pointing at maps, reading wire updates, and trying not to screw up. The biggest difference, I noticed, is how the main tool I really used was Twitter.
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale
Despite a torrent of tweets from across the globe, Twitter engineering managed to keep the site’s head above water.
If You Want to Stay out of Jail, Don’t Instagram Your Ballot
In some states, there’s good reason to leave the smartphone at home — or at least in your pocket.
Tuesday Is Election Night, Be Careful What You Tweet
No one wants the comment “Fake!” in their stream.
Wavii Gives a Fresh Look at the Political Landscape
A news aggregation site makes Election 2012 a whole lot prettier to look at.
ProPublica’s New App Explains Why the President Sent You That Email
We aren’t just voters anymore — we’re customers.
Voices
Understanding the IP Wars
Today, technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are getting a scary wake-up call on the importance of IP issues.
To Mitt: Here’s Your Digital Etch A Sketch
Why race to buy a plastic Etch A Sketch when you can download an app or make a Kinect-a-Sketch?