Congressman for California’s 15th congressional district, Mike Honda, has decided to put the fate of his website in the hands of his supporters.
More precisely, he used crowdSPRING, an online marketplace for creative services, to have designers create designs for his new site, and the public can vote on the design they like best. Honda, however, doesn’t take the concept of crowdsourcing all the way, because the final design will be chosen on criteria other than public votes.
From the official press release:
“Many government websites have good content, but the content is often very hard to find. Full story...
Earlier this afternoon, Google announced Google Buzz, a semantic approach to social status updates that live inside Gmail.
It’s no shocker that the web is buzzing about Google Buzz (terrible pun intended), Google’s most aggressive push into social media yet.
Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying.
Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz.
It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray.
Facebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app, blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night.
Don’t know what Lexicon was? That’s OK, a lot of people didn’t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool.
Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm.
In an effort to remind you that WordPress can be just as flexible and e-mail-friendly as Posterous, the company has released a Posterous importer for users who want to “graduate” from the mini-blogging site to “a full blog with the features, flexibility and reliability of WordPress.
Legendary music festival Bonnaroo is announcing the lineup for its 2010 festival today, and instead of doing so in one fell swoop, the fest is releasing info via its MySpace page all day long.
If Dear Abby and your therapist just aren’t cutting it this Valentine’s Day, you can tweet at the world’s longest-married (living) couple, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, for the scoop on how to score and sustain love.