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Behind the Scenes: The Technology Driving Television-Quality Live Streaming at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention, held August 25-28 in Denver, Colorado, officially kicked off the Obama-Biden 2008 presidential campaign. The DemConvention.com site served as the hub for live and on-demand information, photos and video for the event. The company wanted to reach a broader audience of voters by delivering "The most...

Tags: Level 3 Communications Inc., Democratic National Convention, Live Streaming

Case studies 2008-10-07

Photos: Getting around Democratic convention

There's plenty to see at the Democratic National Convention, including tight security, a tent full of bloggers, and a donkey on a Segway. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Democratic National Convention, Blogging, Internet, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-08-26

Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National Convention

Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National ConventionGlad MS picked a winner...unlike Google who picked the RNC to back this election cycle.I guess this means that Google stands for: misleading the US to war, torture, gutting of the Bill of Rights, right-wing social conservative nut jobs, wiretapping, incompetence,...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Democratic National Convention

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National Convention

Yesterday Microsoft became the "official software and HD web content provider" for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. I'm not entirely sure what the software part entails, but the HD web content provider means that we'll be seeing a lot of Silverlight content coming out of the DNC. In fact, Silverlight...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Content Provider, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Democratic National Convention, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in convention race

Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in convention raceAnd McDonald's are providing the health food I suppose.RE: Microsoft lands Democratic National Convention, ties Google in convention raceIs Google going to revolutionize the counting of "chads" for the republicans?I believe Microsoft's technology will be a showcase event for the world...

Tags: Microsoft-land, Democratic National Convention, Google Inc., home market, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

Barack Obama 2008 Screensaver 1 (Windows)

Images and video clips of Barack Obama on the 2008 Presidential Campaign trail. Includes moments from key speaking points at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, 2007 Presidential Announcement in Springfield, and IL.

Tags: Democratic National Convention, GeeksForObama, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-02-23

Additional Resources

What's on the Queen's iPod?

While on an official visit to the UK, the President and Mrs. Obama enjoyed tea at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and her husband Prince Philip. Not one to come empty handed, the President gave the queen a fully loaded, engraved iPod and a rare, signed songbook from American...

Tags: Apple iPod, Music, Queen, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-02

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

British police can now hack citizens' PCsDifferences...The only difference between Britain and the US... Britian is public with its plans and has government approval. The US has faced scrutiny of Congress but intelligence agencies pressed ahead anyway and already data mine all of your communications.Say hi to your Uncle...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Spyware, British Police, PC, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranch

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranchbecause it is a matter of national security...to provide a senior senator and the next president of the U.S. with reliable service.Just imagine the commander in chief not being able to order a strike against the terrorists in Iraq for instance.HypocriteThis all...

Tags: WIRELESS, McCains, Cell Tower, Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Secret Service, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Get your Flash on during the presidential debates

In a big indication that we're only beginning the social revolution for politics and that RIAs will play a big part, CurrentTV is going to be doing live streaming and a real-time overlay of Tweets using Flash. The broadcast will be available on the CurrentTV Hack the Debate site as...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, TV, Rich Media, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Fastest-growing searches in August 2008

Rank Search Term Volume 1. sarah palin 0.08% 2. hurricane gustav 0.03% 3. dancing with the stars 0.02% 4. how to get a tax refund 0.02% 5. sarah palin vogue magazine 0.01% 6. palin 0.01% 7....

Tags: Taxes, Free Trade, Network Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Photos: Your ticket to the Democratic convention

You don't have to fight crowds or pay for airfare to view these scenes from the last couple of days of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-08-29

Democrats: Twitter, text, or telephone?

How are the Democratic delegates getting out their party's message while at the Democratic National Convention? Are they texting like Obama? Social networking on Twitter or Facebook? Or relying on the old standards: phone and e-mail? CNET's Kara Tsuboi wanders Denver's Pepsi Center to find out.

Tags: Phone, Twitter, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Quality, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, News, kara tsuboi, dnc, colorado, delegates, mccain, obama, clinton, texting, cell phones, internet

Videos 2008-08-28

EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell

On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about that ongoing Apple-Psystar legal showdown, Cisco and Microsoft's collision course, the Democratic National Convention and Dell's plans for the cloud. On Wednesday Psystar--that little Mac clone maker in Florida--sued Apple for antitrust violations. The big question:...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Bigger blogger presence at DNC

There are 15,000 members of the media credentialed for the Democratic National Convention and 120 of them represent blogs. That may seem like just be a drop in the bucket, but as CNET's Kara Tsuboi explores the blogger lounge known as "The Big Tent," it's clear the nontraditional media...

Tags: Presence, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Internet, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, dnc, colorado, obama, mccain, clinton, bloggers, green, environment

Videos 2008-08-27

The role of media in the Internet age

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-27

News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move

Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Updated: Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move

There was a lot of buzz around the fact that Silverlight was going to be use at the Democratic national convention for video my post here and off the heels of the Olympics, it seemed like a good thing for Microsoft to get into and I was really looking forward...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Plug-in, Move, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-25

X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands

The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today’s “in” device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...

Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-25