The digital campaign

The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You
Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com

Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead…

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TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission

TechAmerica Foundation : TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission
techamericafoundation.org

TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission

Data in the world is dou­bling every 18 months. Across gov­ern­ment every­one is talk­ing about the con­cept of Big Data, and how this new tech­nol­o­gy will trans­form the way Wash­ing­ton does busi­ne…

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Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets

Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets
By Michael Colombo, makezine.com

At the same time, the name of the piece, Forêt (trans­lat­ed to “For­est”) harkens to the mate­r­i­al ori­gins of the pal­lets them­selves. As the user sits in the mid­dle of the struc­ture, light pass­es through the slats much like the sun…

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Google Search Mocks Romney

Google Search Mocks Romney
thedailybeast.com

OOPSIE

Team Obama got a good chuck­le Wednes­day when it was revealed that a Google Image search of the phrase “com­plete­ly wrong” yield­ed a series of pho­tos of GOP chal­lenger Mitt Rom­ney. A spokesper­son for the search giant says that ther…

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Measuring debate performance on Twitter

Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com

How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare

How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare

What Teddy Bears, Picture Frames, And Condoms Have In Common

What Teddy Bears, Picture Frames, And Condoms Have In Common | Fast Company

What Teddy Bears, Picture Frames, And Condoms Have In Common

Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate

Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate
by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com

The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’

The gov­er­nor was manic and t…

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Google+ Goes Looking For Love

Google+ Goes Looking For Love
By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com

Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra.

An inter­view with Google’s senior vice pres­i­dent for engi­neer­ing, Vic Gun­do­tra, about…

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Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends
Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com

You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y…

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