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As TV Networks Focus on Mumbai Landmarks, Local Captures Ground Shots On Flickr

Shortly after he heard explosions outside of his home in the Colaba district in Mumbai, 27-year-old Vinu Ranganathan grabbed his camera and ran outside to take some shots. For hours, his graphic photos of the destruction wrought by the terrorists in ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  27 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Flickr,  Google Inc.

Change.org Crowdsources An Agenda For Incoming Administration

Barack Obama's transition team is soliciting feedback from US citizens on where they'd like to see their country go through Change.gov, but it turns out that a rival web site named Change.org might beat the incoming administration to the punch when it ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  25 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Joshua Levy

Barack Obama's Privacy Challenge

"We used as much information as we could to increase the likelihood that Barack Obama would win the election," he says. "That's a good thing." VAN is a company that builds tools that enables political campaigns to access their own voter files. It was ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  17 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe the Plumber,  University of California Berkeley

Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC

Susan Crawford, a visiting professor of internet and communications law at Yale Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team's ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  WIRED Magazine

Obama Turns To YouTube For Weekly Broadcast

As predicted, President-elect Obama will use YouTube in addition to radio to deliver his weekly address to the nation. This will be the first time that a President-elect will use online video to deliver his weekly message. "President-elect Obama will ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Joe Biden,  George W. Bush

Obama Team Taps Venture Capitalist And Tech Company Execs To Organize Transition

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team unveiled its agency review chiefs and working members for the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury and several other departments and agencies Wednesday. The job of agency review teams will be to ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  12 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Yahoo!,  Center for American Progress,  Joe Biden

Obama Caught Palling Around With Google CEO Schmidt

It seems as if Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been President-elect Obama's constant companion since he officially unveiled his endorsement of the candidate late last month. Schmidt was again by Obama's side Friday when Obama met behind closed doors with ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  7 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Google Inc.,  Joe Biden,  Warren Buffett,  Time Warner Inc.

Obama Tech Policy Advisor Is On The Transition Team

President-elect Barack Obama has named a telecom policy and internet business veteran to his transition team, a move that signals the kind of people and policies that we might be hearing about in the days to come. Rock Creek Ventures' co-founder Julius ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Federal Communications Commission,  Bill Clinton,  Craig Newmark,  White House

US Election Results: World Have Your Say

As jubilant as citizens of the world were over America's election of Barack Obama, much of the joy came from the prospect of the end of the Bush administration. It's hard to express the scope and depth of President Bush's unpopularity outside of the ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Spammers Seize On Obama's Moment

"From what we are seeing so far, the social engineering tactic being used coupled with the interest of the election and its outcome, high volumes of this tactic are already being observed as many users are being tricked and infecting their PCs with ...

From SARAH LAI STIRLAND, Wired,  5 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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