Posts Tagged ‘President Obama’

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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses (The New York Times / Bits)
Yesterday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing. The glasses are not yet for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public. Cnet A video of this augmented-reality experiment was posted by Google on YouTube showing someone wearing the glasses as he made his way around a variety of Manhattan venues, receiving up-to-the-minute updates as information streamed into his glasses. The Wall Street Journal / Digits Instant walking routes on maps, video chat, voice notes and a camera may be included in the glasses, Google suggests. Wired / Epicenter It’s also a timely means for Google to remind the public that its engineers have visions that transcend the current spats with Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, the DOJ and the European Union. Read more

President Obama is not the only social-savvy candidate in the 2012 presidential elections. In his race to the primaries, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich has also stopped by Pinterest to delight his supporters with campaign tour photos, artsy Instagram shots, and cover art from his books.

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The Obama Administration has announced a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” that will better protect users from companies that share their personal information on the Internet.

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President Obama completed his first live Google Hangout on Monday, and the results were pretty good.  Google has put up the video, and you can see that whether you agree with the answers or not, the overall effect of having Americans from all over the country asking live questions to the President is a very effective way to see the President in a variety of situations.  Unfortunately, for this particular interview the questions were strongly moderated and the questions were a bit too vague — the whole interview had a positive vibe and some tough questions weren’t addressed.

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The introductory post invites people to post comments, send photos of campaign t-shirts and other mentions like jokes or whatever.

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“We know that people around the world are interested in labor statistics,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “The Labor Department is continuously exploring how to share important information using the fastest, simplest, most wide-reaching means available, and this app allows us to increase the accessibility of our statistical data.”

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The infographic also points out the top industries on LinkedIn are higher education, marketing and advertising, information technology and health care.

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According to the WSJ, the President will take questions from a live audience and from LinkedIn members who submit questions through a LinkedIn group, “Putting America Back to Work.”

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It is official, according to Obama’s campaign posting on its website late last week, Obama will tweet regularly from the well-known social media platform. How will you know it is from our president? He will sign his personal with “BO,” which has many meanings in the American language. We will know it is from our beloved president. Not all tweets will be from President Obama according to the campaign. They will be managing both Obama’s Twitter account and Facebook page.

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While visiting the US Embassy in Ireland, President Obama’s Cadillac got stuck on a curb. The video’s description says it all—”It might be bullet proof, it might be missile proof – but a teeny weeny curb has defeated the Presidential car!!!!”

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