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Industry Buzz & News: 5/24/10

Social Media: FarmVille creator Zynga moves into real-world branding. Twitter cuts cord on third-party ad networks. Yahoo allies with Nokia on maps. Can location-based services   [...]
Posted: Monday, May 24th 2010

Top March Websites Indicate Spring's Arrival

Increased consumer interest in website categories including home improvement, baseball and theme parks indicated that consumers were preparing for the arrival of spring in March 2010, according to Compete. Home Improvement Every spring, there is typically a spike in home improvement-related traffic online. March 2010 followed this trend. Home improvement sites Bedbathandbeyond.com (5,058,487 unique visitors), l  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 5th 2010

Obama Admin Delivers Video Streaming App

The Obama Administration has developed an app for the iPhone and iTouch that provides constituents with such features as news, web chats with Administration officials and live footage from the President's public events at the White House. It joins a small but growing numbe  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 21st 2010

Obama Solicits Texts to 'See What's Happening' in Africa

Prior to his Friday trip to Ghana, President Barack Obama has received thousands of text messages about Africa -- messages of both support and criticism, says the White House. The texts were sent after the Administration set up country-specific SMS codes to which inhabitants of Africa were invited to send messages. The codes include: • Ghana - 1731 • Nigeria - 32969 • South Africa - 31958 • Kenya - 5683 Acc  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 10th 2009

Google To Facilitate Indian Elections

Google launched the Google India Elections Center to help engage and prepare India’s 700 million eligible voters for next month’s general elections, reports TechCrunch. Google has organized similar web-based election centers in the US and Australia in the past, but Google India’s election center offers new features which  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009

British PM to Give Citizens Online 'Voice'

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a plan to reform Britain's public services by using the web as a forum for the public voice, receiving online feedback from the electorate, writes the Globe and Mail.In the proposal, called "Working Together," the PM optimistically outlined the idea of setting up an online system for people to cr  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 11th 2009

Twitter Users Black Out to Protest 'Guilty Upon Accusation'

Avatars on Twitter are blacking out their avatars in protest against a new law, Section 92A, that has passed in New Zealand. The law stipulates that internet service providers (ISPs) "adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances of the account of a repeat [copyright] infr  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 17th 2009

State of the DTV Transition: House Defeats Bill to Delay, Updated 1-29-09

1-29-09: House Defeats Bill to Delay Transition House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a bill to delay the upcoming DTV transition. The vote failed to clear the two-thirds threshold, with Republicans voting against the bill, in part, they say, because a delay will simply confuse consumers, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. As of last week, approximately 2.6 million consumers were on the waiti  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 30th 2009

State of the DTV Transition: Senate Approves Digital Delay

1-27-09: Senate Approves Digital TV Delay The Senate has voted to delay the transition to digital television - originally scheduled for Feb. 17 - until June 12, because some viewers are not yet ready for the switch. Similar legislation awaits action in the House, reports The New York Times (via  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 28th 2009

North America: Positive Outlook for Obama Presidency

Most Americans think many of the top national issues - including the economy, healthcare, education, the Iraq war and energy - will improve over the next four years with President Barack Obama in office, according to a pre-inauguration survey by HCD Research. The study, conducted January 13-15 among 3,772 participants representing the the top three political parties and  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

Facebook Plays Host to Presidential Suggestion Box

With the assistance of a homepage tool developed in tandem with The New York Times, Facebook users can now make proposals to President Elect Barack Obama. Through Presidential Select, members of the socnet giant can submit questions or comments in the site's suggestion box. Selected opinions will be showcased on a NYTimes.com microsite, but it isn't clear in what other ways user engagement will b  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 16th 2009

Israeli Gov't Holds First Twitter Press Conference

On Dec. 30, microblogging service Twitter hosted its first governmental press conference on behalf of Israel's Defense Forces -- whose microblogging tag was @IsraelConsulate. Questions and answers were limited to 140 characters, the standard length of a Twitter message or "tweet." So even answers to the most complex questions -- about which entire books have been written -- had to be short and swe  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 5th 2009

NY Governor Proposes iPod Tax

Hoping to expedite the close of the state's $15 billion budget gap, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on music and other downloads made online. To download online content from a site like iTunes, for example, users must create an account with a billing address, so additional fees to New York residents can be applied with relative ease, observes the New York   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 17th 2008

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

Change.gov Opens to Questions, Comments, 'American Stories'

Change.gov, the site where President Elect Obama's administration communicates with Americans, now permits users to submit questions and vote on those they most want answered. The "Open for Questions" feature launched Wednesday, at which time over 1000 questions were logged  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Indian Gov May Censor Google Earth

Following last month's terrorist situation in Mumbai, legal advocates in India demand that the country's High Court implement a "blur" on certain locations featured in Google Earth. Earlier this week it was revealed that the terrorists used a number of so-called "new" technologies, includi  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Google Zeitgeist Unearths Global Interest in Socializing, Politics

Equipped with data from over 30 countries, the objective of Google's Year-End Zeitgeist is to hone in on topics of global interest. In 2008, "Sarah Palin," "Beijing 2008" and "Facebook login" topped the fastest-rising topics worldwide: Meanwhile, top-of-min  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 10th 2008

Army Puts Overseas Soldiers Behind Recruitment Webcasts

Beginning today -- Veterans Day -- the US Army will integrate a series of webcasts, labeled "Straight from Iraq," into its website and overall media campaign. "Now you can find out what it's really like to be deployed in the Middle East from the men and women stationed there," claims the subsite on GoArmy.com. The effort -- where users can field questions to Iraq-based soldiers -- is targeted to Americans between the a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 11th 2008

Obama Campaign Launches iPhone App

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has launched an iPhone application that enables supporters to communicate with each other and consume breaking news, reports The New York Times. Available for free on the App Store, it is compatible with the iPhone and the iPod touch. The unit organizes contacts by "key battleground states," keeps you abreast of campaign news via text and email, and helps target local e  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 3rd 2008

First Presidential Debate Draws 57 Million Viewers

Last Friday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain drew 57 million viewers, according to early Nielsen estimates - well below the record debate in 1980 between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Though Friday night's Presidential debate was expected to pull record numbers, it didn't even make the top 10 most-watched debates in history, points out Media Life  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 1st 2008