"Hot on the heels of its Web news tracking service Political Streams, the Live Labs team at Microsoft has a new tool called Thumbtack. Similar to Listas, a previous Microsoft Live Labs project, Thum read more » DiscussBury
An Xbox 360 gamer reports a billboard supporting Obama in the game. Wagner James Au writes "This is either a brilliant Photoshop job, some canny viral political campaigning, or both." The authenticity of the ad has not been confirmed...keep an eye on Au's Gigaom site for updates. read more » DiscussBury
"Andy Baio and Joshua Schachter teamed up to create a totally interesting project for the political season: a way to immediately visualize the links from political blogs on Memeorandum based on how they tend to link -- to more conservative (shown with red tint) or more liberal (shown with blue tint) blogs." read more » DiscussBury
Steve Gillmor writes an interesting article on the effect or lack thereof of social media on political campaigns. Part of TechCrunchIT. read more » DiscussBury
Garrett Rogers reports on a new service from Google that allows one to see what stories politicians and political commentators are following. read more » DiscussBury
ABC and Facebook have announced a cooperative effort that will bring more political reporting to Facebook and allow ABC to gather additional eyeballs. Brian Stelter at the New York Times has more. read more » DiscussBury