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- Obama's Google Moderator stats
- The White House asked to use Google's moderator program for President Obama's town hall meeting, which garnered huge participation numbers. Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, explains to Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo how people were able to not only ask questions, but to vote for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Obama, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, President, Barack Obama, White House, Google, Web 2.0 Expo, Moderator, questions, voters
- Videos 2009-04-03
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- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware
- Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...
- Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply
- Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...
- Tags: oil, Bakken
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Why not pay for what works?
- If this was Betsy McCaughey's intent, she is fiendishly clever. By taking science and evidence out, she has left voters with a choice between paying for political voodoo or keeping the present wasteful system alive. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Apple bans bobble head Congress app
- There are few people in this country more desserving of ridicule......than politicians.A couple of observations from Rasmussen:"Only four percent (4%) of voters say most politicians keep their campaign promises. Forty-five percent (45%) believe they deliberately make false promises to get elected.""Voters by more than two-to-one think high congressional reelection rates...
- Tags: Smart phones, U.S. Congress, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iDont
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- GOP will present a health care bill
- Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- GOP will present a health care bill
- The Republican proposal is guaranteed to be rejected, but now they have something they can offer on the campaign trail next year when voters complain about whatever does pass. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: GOP, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- ZDNet readers don't care about celebrity endorsements
- An overwhelming number of ZDNet readers voted that they don't care about celebrity endorsements when it comes to digital cameras and camcorders. In a poll opened on October 21, 97% of 147 voters said (as of October 22) that a celebrity endorsement means nothing when throwing down hundreds of dollars...
- Tags: Camcorder, Camera, Celebrity Endorsement, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Boomi issues Dream Widget challenge ahead of Dreamforce show
- A company called Boomi is so confident of its application integration technology that it has issued a challenge ahead of next month's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco: tell Boomi which application you'd most like to see integrated into salesforce and Boomi will create the "Dream Widget" to give away at...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Integration, Boomi, Application Integration, Sales Force Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade
- Even where I live voter turnout is pathetic! Barely 60% of eligible voters did so! We are even given allowances of up to 4 hours away from work by law to go vote. It’s mandatory in 19 countries - Brazil and Australia are noteworthy. by Doug Hanchard
- Tags: E-voting, Microsoft Windows, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- For ZDNet readers, tripods are casual accessories
- The majority of ZDNet readers don't use their tripods often, according to an online poll opened on October 2. 24% of voters said they only use a tripod once or twice a year, and 20% said they use one every few months. Only 7% of participants said they use a...
- Tags: Accessory, Poll, Camera, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
- I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Snowe and enemies push health reform forward
- Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform
- more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?
- What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Did content management help Obama win the Presidency?
- P.T. Barnum had it wrong!There has got to be more than one born every minute, to explain the number of voters who fell for this scam. To quote our president "Come on!". This clown has no experience at ANYTHING, served 147 days before announcing his run, and takes advice from...
- Tags: Web technology, content management
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Lower costs or mandate coverage
- More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
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