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The State of the Union Meets Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is getting a place on mainstream America's map of emerging technology, thanks to a Mozilla project that is incorporating its use in President Obama’s annual state of the union address this week. Tuesday's State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by citizens around the world via new web tools fro  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 23rd 2012

Industry Buzz & News: 6/04/10

Online Ad Market: Google quietly brings Twitter feeds to display ads. Publishing: Publishers see signs the iPad can restore ad money. Social Media: Why small businesses shouldn't   [...]
Posted: Friday, June 4th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/05/10

Campaigns: Adidas rewards consumers for sharing in online push. Analytics: Real time analytics makes for happy customers. Ad Technology: Study calls for more user choice  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 5th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/11/10

Campaigns: Aflac is leaving its agency and taking the duck. NJ governor's race yielded small online spends. Analytics: 5 tips for investing in analytics. E-Mail Marketing:  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 11th 2010

Help For Loud TV Commercials?

They're more annoying than anything, and some feel it's a waste of the government's time, but the issue of loud TV commercials is once again coming under scrutiny in Washington. Introduced by California Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, the   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 9th 2009

FCC Puts Wireless Spectrum Plan on Backburner

A project to avail portions of advanced wireless services-2 spectrum to telecommunications companies, in exchange for free nationwide public internet services, has been put on hold until next year, when the new administration takes office. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled the meeting in which members would vote on the initiative soon after two Democratic lawmakers asked that it be temporarily suspended, Mediapost   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Obama's Fireside Chats Hit YouTube

With what The Guardian called "an ultra-modern echo of Franklin D. Roosevelt's regular folksy radio broadcasts," President Elect Barack Obama has launched a weekly address to the nation -- via YouTube. Like Roosevelt's "fireside chats," Obama uses a contrived intimate setting to discuss issues plaguing the country -- the economy, energy, healthcare, education -- and outlines plans to resolve them:   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 17th 2008

Ten Key Online Predictions for 2008

eMarketer has issued predictions for 2008 in key online areas, including advertising, videos, social networks, e-commerce and entertainment. The forecast finds online advertising will ride out potential economic storms in the US -- and YouTube will decide political elections -- reports MarketingCharts. The 10 predictions  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 7th 2008

Yahoo Launches Election Dashboard

Yahoo has added a political dashboard to its 2008 presidential election site. The dashboard tracks each candidate's stats from four sources: Polls, buzz on the Yahoo search engine, total real-dollar bets placed on each candidate at Ireland-based Intrade, and   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 17th 2007

YouTube Becomes Battleground for 2008 Election

The 2008 Presidential race marks the first election in which YouTube has become a battleground for which candidates are fighting for views and user comments, reports Globe and Mail. It's also the first battlefield where voters can affect the outcome as much as the candidates themselves. Take the Obama Girl for example. Her video,   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 9th 2007

Obama Media Charge Touts Secret Weapon: Facebook

Barack Obama isn't just young; he's quick to make friends. MySpace has been a clear ally from the beginning of his campaign push, and Facebook has recently leaped onto the train, reports The Wall Street Journal. The networking darling for coeds is not just hosting an Obama page; they are actively campaigning. At the heart of Obama's Facebook  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 29th 2007

Stealth Browser Hides IP Addresses

A group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts has released a Firefox-based fully portable browser designed to allow anonymous web surfing. Called Torpark, the browser created by the Hacktivismo organization establishes an encrypted connection to the TOR (The Onion Router) network, which supplies a succession of different IP addresses,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006

FTC Says CAN-SPAM Works Well

In its report to Congress on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the law is indispensable in the war on spam but subsequent anti-spam measures must be technological, writes ClickZ. FTC officials summarized the report's findings during a press conference, during which they also discussed enforcement initiatives undertaken together with Canada and those with some southern states. However, only 2  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st 2005

Broadband for All and a Chicken in Every Pot

Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed an "innovation agenda" calling for affordable broadband access in every home within five years, writes AdAge. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) said the goal is to keep the country the "most competitive and innovative nation in the world." The plan calls for, inter alia, a national broadband policy that takes broadband to rural and underserved communities and supports new broadb  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 16th 2005

Estonia Votes via the Net

The Baltic state of Estonia last week became the first country to open up local elections to internet voting on a national level, and about one percent of votes in its local government council elections were cast online, reports CNET. With a population of roughly 1.4 million, Estonia counted a total of about half a million votes, with 6,000 of them cast online. Election officials told the Associate  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 19th 2005

GENI Project Aims to Reengineer the Internet

The National Science Foundation is planning to re-engineer the internet to overcome its shortcomings and create a network better suited for a computerized world, reports the New York Times. The new project, the Global Environment for Networking Investigations (GENI) was publicly described last week. The new network would focus on security; "pervasive computing" environments consisting of mobile, wireless and sensor netwo  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 29th 2005

Japan Wants to Feel, Smell TV

Aldous Huxley must be turning over in his grave... If Japan has its way, we could all one day be enjoying feelies and scent organs: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will set up an industry-academia-government research and development unit this year that will work to commercialize virtual reality television by 2020," writes Japan Today. VRTV would generate three-dimensional, high-definition images that can  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 18th 2005

NSA, CIA Building Better, Smarter Search

As powerful as they may be, search engines can be time sinks - and sometimes "pathetically weak," according to a New York Times article - for anything other than simple keyword queries. And they certainly can't answer searches in question form, despite the current best efforts of Ask Jeeves and others, because they don't really understand the questions. That's where a government effort, the unclassified Aquaint proj  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 13th 2005

New Search Tech Finds, Interprets 'Hidden' Info for Terror War

University at Buffalo researchers recently finalized a new search technology that finds "hidden" information on websites, Pandia reports. The technology, designed for use in the "war on terror," is called Unintended Information Revelation, or UIR, and does not refer to information not available to search; rather, it is an attempt to interpret found information to reveal hidden connections. The   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 7th 2005

Google Responds to French Fears of Digitized Library

In an otherwise completely derivative piece, The New York Times managed to eke out a response from Google on the ginning up of nationalist pique at the idea that the "Anglo" Google might become the arbiter of what gets published in its massive Google Print project. Said a European G  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005