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Political Campaign In The Cloud: Three Hot New Social Apps For Election 2012

Stan Freck (Park City, UT) — Everyone knows that the 2008 Obama/Biden campaign for President of the United States made sophisticated use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, not to mention creatively tapping into America’s young voters in other innovative ways. But if you thought technology in the 2008 presidential race was a big ... Read more »
Apps, Gadgets and Mobile, Geo, Politics
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Geo-intelligent Local Impact Stories

Tara Grumm (Redmond, WA) – Every day, hundreds of nonprofit organizations are hard at work improving the educational process, facilitating research on important topics, and empowering citizens with skills critical to finding work or starting a business.  This doesn’t happen in isolation. When a nonprofit truly connects with its surrounding community, it becomes more effective. This ... Read more »
Apps, By the Numbers, Corporate Citizenship, Geo, Nonprofits, Real Impact
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Interactive U.S. Public Transit Maps

Joanne Harrell (Bellevue, WA) — The Brookings Institution and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new online data visualization tool that is designed to help cities and counties align public transportation resources to job creation goals. Built on Windows Azure and Bing Maps with Microsoft partner EastBanc Technologies, the application ... Read more »
Academia, Big Data, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Corporate Citizenship, Geo, Nonprofits, People, Real Impact
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Mapping The President’s Daily Brief

Christopher Tucker (Washington, DC) — Over the past couple years, we have been watching the slow yet inevitable collision of the Open Government Initiative and the White House’s so-called Place Based Policy Initiative. While Government 2.0 has progressed quite far since William Eggers coined the term “Government 2.0″ in 2004, many of its most interesting examples ... Read more »
Books, Defense, Geo, Government
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Automotive Mobile

Cars are now electronic mobile devices – at least according to Toyota and Microsoft, that is. These two companies recently announced a strategic partnership to build the Ultimate Mobile Device. Through a 1 billion yen investment in Toyota Media Service, the partnership teams the companies to collaboratively build a global cloud platform to ... Read more »
Cars, Gadgets and Mobile, Geo, Green Tech, Next at Microsoft
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