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Goodbye to the YouTube Address: White House Goes with Akamai Instead
The president's weekly video address was often called the 'YouTube address,' but after complaints from privacy activists, the White House has now decided to leave YouTube behind and use Akamai's content delivery network to embed the president's weekly address on the White House web site. The White House will still post videos to YouTube, but, by default, it now directs visitors to Vimeo instead of Google's streaming video service.
White House Continues to Give Preferential Treatment to Google: Exempts YouTube from Privacy Rules
Just a few days ago, we wondered why the White House was giving preferential treatment to Google's YouTube. As CNET's Chris Soghoian points out today, the federal government has very strict rules about using persistent cookies on government sites. However, the new privacy policy for the WhiteHouse.gov site explicitly exempts YouTube from having to follow these guidelines, as the Obama team wants to be able to continue to embed YouTube videos on the new White House blog.
Whitehouse.gov: Looking Back at 12 Years of the US President's Web Presence
As the eyes of the world were focused on the pomp and circumstance of Barack Obama moving into a new role as President of the United States, Obama's Web team was hard at work - with far less fanfare - moving their Web property to a new address: whitehouse.gov, the official Web site for the President. And while, at first blush, the site may appear similar to Obama's President-elect site, change.gov, it is strikingly different than the predecessors who have occupied whitehouse.gov over the past 12 years. How different? Let's take a look.
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