Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old who built a digital clock to impress his teacher and got arrested because police and school authorities thought it was a hoax bomb, has revealed that he is still suspended by the school. Neither has he received an apology from the school but it doesn’t matter, he told a press conference, because he is […]
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Obama Backs Net Neutrality
President Obama has come out with a clear message in favour of “Net Neutrality”. In a video published earlier today Obama uses similar language to other supporters of Net Neutrality and states unequivocally that he’ll be getting the FCC to assist him by making it illegal for any company to prioritise traffic or access to […]
Obama Breaks Records on Both Twitter and Facebook
The importance of social media and the internet in general during this year’s US Presidential elections is probably going to be talked about for months if not years. But what is really fascinating to see is that Obama’s official social media channels on Facebook and Twitter broke records by themselves. Around 4am this morning (Irish […]
Croatian Startup To Power US Presidential Debate Twitter Interaction
UX Passion hail from Zagreb, Croatia. They’ve got a couple of interesting and cool things in the works, but their flagship product has been up and running for the last year or two – Wall of Tweets. It’s been used at a lot of tech events around Europe over the last couple of years and […]
Facebook and CNN Launch Elections Insights
We mentioned Amazon’s election barometer recently. Facebook have teamed up with CNN to launch “Election Insights“. Using Facebook’s “insights” the site displays the volume of activity on the social network related to the various US presidential hopefuls Full announcement here.