It's official: The President has joined Pinterest. The @BarackObama Twitter account made the formal announcement yesterday.
What to do when the strict system of Internet censorship around you briefly breaks down? Take your grievances directly to the most powerful man in the world. A quick visit to Barack Obama’s Google+ page reveals a flood of comments written in Chinese.
If there’s anything remarkable about President Obama’s new “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” it’s that it hasn’t raised much of a ruckus in Silicon Valley. Internet giants such as Google and others aren’t raising hell; in fact, they’ve happily enlisted themselves in the fight for privacy by agreeing to implement “Do Not Track” buttons.
The Obama administration just rolled out something it’s calling a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.” It’s a first draft at this point — think of it as a blueprint for legislation down the road, a statement of principles companies can voluntarily sign onto — but given what it’s meant to do, and how it could impact future law, it’s definitely worth canvassing the key points.
As previously reported, President Obama will be holding a Google+ Hangout to field live (albeit pre-selected) questions about last Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
President Obama will be delivering his State of the Union address tomorrow night at 9PM Eastern, which will be shown on major TV networks and streamed live online via YouTube. And next Monday, January 30, the President will be fielding questions on Google+ from average Joes “in the first completely-virtual interview from the White House.”
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could tweet my support for this political decision, but I just can’t think of the right words to show my appreciation for this idea?” Is the notion of typing 140 characters to register your approval of a bill headed to Congress too daunting a task? [...]
Here’s how serious President Obama is about making jobs the subject on everyone’s lips: His next Town Hall meeting—to discuss job creation, obviously—will be hosted by LinkedIn.
When President Barack Obama asked Twitter to join him for a virtual town hall meeting by tweeting him questions using the hashtag #AskObama, it’s possible he was expecting a few people to join him. What he got was an impressive 169,395 tweets, and enough new followers that he broke the 9 million barrier for the [...]
President Obama wants to reinvigorate the U.S. economy with a little help from some robots. Lots of robots.
If you’re President of the United States, you’ve probably got bigger fish to fry than worrying about writing 140-character updates online.
