Posts Tagged ‘2008 presidential elections

A Republican U.S. presidential debate is set to hit the Twitterverse on July 20. While those following the debate will be able to do so on their regular Twitter clients, it will also be hosted on an additional site that will display tweets by the moderator, debaters and members of the public in separate streams. [...]

As we saw in 2008, the U.S. elections are a great time for web companies to showcase their wares. This year, Foursquare is getting in on the action, encouraging civic participation with the introduction of an “I Voted” badge, a digital version of the sticker often handed out at polling places around the country. To [...]

For those of us who like to imagine we’re already living in the future, this 3D teleconferencing setup seems to corroborate our theory. A project of the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, the 3D video teleconferencing setup works by projecting a high-speed video feed onto a spinning mirror. Unlike the CNN newscaster [...]

One of the charts from Facebook showing friend connections across conflict zones. (Credit: Facebook) Facebook’s executives have been saying for a long time that they believe they’ve built something that can make the world a better place. And now they’ve launched a hub for that, called “Peace on Facebook.” “Facebook is proud to play a [...]


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