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OpenID Foundation Board of Directors: 17 Candidates Vie For Seven Spots
Few elements of the "Open Stack" have garnered as much attention - or as much support - as OpenID, a way to use a single digital identity across multiple Web sites. That acceptance led ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick to call the OpenID Foundation "one of the leading organizations in the new standards world." In that same post, Kirkpatrick urged people to participate in the elections for the OpenID Foundation Board of Directors. Now, the time for that participation has come.
The OpenID Foundation Needs You
Do you think that open standards, data portability and questions of online identity are important? We do; we think these issues are the foundation upon which many of the most exciting and important online innovations are being built.
That's only going to be more true in the future, so if you'd like to have a say in how it all goes down - now's the time to get involved. The OpenID Foundation is one of the leading organizations in the new standards world and it's having its first ever election of community board members this month. Nominations close Monday and the voting begins on Wednesday.
OpenSocial Foundation Elects Parikh, Smarr to Board
Not to be outdone by the recent US Presidential hoopla, the OpenSocial Foundation - a non-profit corporation that facilitates the development of OpenSocial specifications - held its elections for "Community Directors" this week. The elections determine who will fill the remaining two seats on the Foundation's Board.
The votes have been tallied and the results are in. OpenSocial Foundation members have selected Jay Parikh of Ning and Joseph Smarr of Plaxo as their community representatives.
Google on Election Day: People Are Voting for Free Chicken and Ice Cream
The official Google blog just posted some interesting data about hot search trends early in election day and while there are a lot of important questions being asked by millions of people - several of the hottest queries are about getting free chicken, ice cream and coffee as a reward for voting.
Starbucks, Chikfila and Ben and Jerry's are all doing election-day giveaways and apparently those are among Americans' top priorities. Let's keep that in mind when the press reports on record turnout!
Are The Kids Voting? (And Why Web Users Should Care)
With Election Day upon us, one segment of the U.S. population is under heavy scrutiny: the youth voters. Will this typically apathetic group of voters actually turn out at the polls? Will Gen Y show us that they're not just all talk? For obvious reasons, politically, the actions of this group of voters will have big impacts on today's election. But their actions (or inactions) will also have further impacts on the web and tech, as well.
Your Election Day Web Toolkit
Everything you need to find voter information, report on your experience, and track election results using social media and the web.
Over the past few weeks, we've heard of several different ways we can use the web to keep track of the U.S. Election coverage. We can use Google to locate our voting locations, record our voting experience for YouTube, and even Twitter our voting issues. Now that E-Day is finally upon us, it's time revisit those tools as we prepare for the most digitally enhanced election ever.
OMG I Cost Obama the Election
I don't like to talk about politics too much here on the blog. Oh who am I kidding, I do too. Even if I didn't though this new website from MoveOn would be worth a post because it is hilarious. In a frightening vision of the future, it appears that my personal apathy could end up being the deciding factor in the upcoming political election.
You've seen this done with church signs and parking tickets, but check out this particular manifestation of the personalization meme. I'm guessing that many of you will want to send it to friends and family. Hopefully at least 51% of you.
OpenSocial Foundation Announces Elections for Community Directors
The OpenSocial Foundation has announced elections for its Board of Directors, the governing body that helps the non-profit organization "sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications."
Thirteen candidates have been nominated to fill two "Community Director" Board seats. Among the nominees are several familiar names including Chris Messina, Krishna Sankar, and Joseph Smarr. (For more information on each of these candidates and the other 10 nominees, visit the OpenSocial Foundation.)
Google Launches U.S. Voter Info Site
With the upcoming U.S. elections only 12 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration. According to a blog post about the new U.S. Voter Info site, Google found it hard to believe that in 2008, this type of important information isn't better organized on the web. Because organizing info is what Google is all about, they took it on themselves to step in where government has not and have created an incredibly useful site for all U.S. citizens.
Hulu Goes Live: Will Stream Presidential Election Debates
Hulu made its name by providing time-shifted access to one of the web's largest libraries of television shows. For tonight's second presidential debate in the U.S., Hulu will also introduce live streaming. The feed will be provided by NBC and Hulu will make a recording of the debate available after the broadcast. It is not clear if Hulu will expand these live offerings to other events, though with the infrastructure in place, we will probably see Hulu stream other political and sporting events in the future.
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