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My.Gov: How Obama Can Use the Net to Improve Government [GigaOM]
President-elect Obama promised during his campaign to create a “ Google for government. ” Now that he’s on his way to the White House, let’s imagine what this might look like, and how such a tool could change the way people relate to those tasked with running our ...
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updates.zdnet.com — Additional Resources Who will lead Obama-era FCC? Monday morning may continue the speculation that Hillary Clinton will... be named Secretary of State, but in more technical climes the wagers are on what will happen with the Federal Communications ... (more) president-elect obama Resources
If and how will Obama get citizen feedback?
venturebeat.com — What is president-elect Barack Obama’s new transition site, Change.gov , going to become? Right now, the site... just contains basic information that the campaign has already made public. But it promises to help make the U.S. government more ... (more) If and how will Obama get citizen feedback?
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First Bytes: Facebook, Apple, IBM, More
Tech Observer — How President Obama can use the web to improve government. [GigaOm] A billion dollar business for Facebook? [SiliconAlleyInsider] Is Apple building a search engine? [TechCrunch] Nuke site converted into green data center. [Slashdot] IBM will develop power-line broadband. [eFluxMedia] --Andrea Chalupa Related Links First Bytes: Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, IBM, AMD, Sony Ericsson First Bytes: Google, Bezos, Facebook, more First Bytes: Wink, Reunion, Kindle, ...

This Is Cool: Social News & Obama’s CTO: [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... . They are using Digg-like social voting to figure out what are the top priorities for this new job. There are some interesting ideas there and hopefully some of them will actually make it to Washington. I like this idea — now lets hope that people actually listen and not just use these as cute tricks. (Related link: How Obama can use the net to improve the government.) ...

This Is Cool: Social News & Obama’s CTO [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... . They are using Digg-like social voting to figure out what the top priorities for this new job will be. There are some interesting ideas there and hopefully some of them will actually make it to Washington. I like this idea — now let’s hope that people actually listen and not just use these as cute tricks. (Related link: How Obama can use the net to improve the government.) ...

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