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Official White House iPhone App: Download Free

Dean Sherwin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:42:16 +0000

Next week, the president of the United States Barak Obama will be addressing the nation in the annual ‘State of the Union’ speech. Many people will watch it live on TV, others from the White House’s website – some, from the official iPhone app.

The White House have just announced their official app which has been released onto the App Store. There have been other similar apps on the app store (mainly just fancy skins of the White House website) but this one is free and much, much better.

There is a feed to the White House blog, videos, newsroom topics and photos as well as quick updates about national situations and policies. However, the best feature is the video streaming (or ‘Live Content’ as it’s labelled in the app). This enables you to watch news conferences, events and speeches at the White House. So next week, make sure to watch the presidents speech from you cool new, free, White House iPhone app which can be downloaded here.

The Pirate Party List of Countries

Steven Finch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:26:36 +0000

With the emergency of the Pirate Party in Sweden in which won a European Parliamentary place at the last elections, I just wanted to run through what countries currently have a Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party – Sweden

The Pirate Party – Canada

The Pirate Party – UK

The Pirate Party – Germany

The Pirate Party – Finland

Twitter Goes Political with Election 08′

Luis Sandoval — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:56:29 +0000

If you’ve been on Twitter for the last few months, you’ve probably noticed a few of your stateside followers in deep conversation about the upcoming election to replace President Bush. While we all have our own opinion on how the country has been managed, the good news is that finally some change is coming and this election will determine the course of our future. Even our friends overseas are watching closely to see just what will happen, for better or worse.

Twitter has gone the extra mile and included a “Twad” (Twitter ad) at the top of their site to keep users up to date on the election, fundamentally calling it Election.Twitter. At midnight last night, Election.Twitter went live, finally acknowledging just how popular, if not important, this topic has been on their micro-blogging service. The site will be very familiar to long time Twitter users, except for one big difference. “What are you doing?” is being replaced with “What do you think?”, opening the floor for debate, discussion, disagreement, and speculation.

To get the low down on what is going on, stop by get involved, and get informed!