Posts Tagged ‘White House’

Aneesh Chopra, an Assistant to the President and the U.S. Chief Technology Officer is embracing new social media in his latest move.  He’s decided to use Quora to ask some key questions regarding the use of new technologies to help the people.  This is part of President Obama’s “Startup America” plan, and is focused on [...]

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The 12-page strategy delineates procedures and tactical measures to respond to violent extremism, promises stating, “We will continue to closely monitor the important role the Internet and social-networking sites play in advancing violent extremist narratives.”

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer admitted to Brian Stelter of The New York Times that the deluge of tweets directed toward lawmakers, encouraged last Friday by President Barack Obama, were a factor in the agreement between congressional Democrats and Republicans on the debt ceiling, announced Sunday night.

The administration of President Barack Obama wants to know what the general public thinks of its Facebook page, so it turned to SurveyAnalytics.

The White House doors are now open to all smartphone users across the country – Democrats or Republicans, iPhone devotees or Android fans. If only the politicians in Washington could get along so well.

President Barack Obama’s claim as the first “Web 2.0 president,” along with his ties to the tech industry, may be getting a little deeper with rumors of two impending personnel moves between his presidency and Silicon Valley.

Marking a new front in the battle over online privacy, the Obama administration, for the first time, explicitly called on Congress today to approve a “consumer privacy bill of rights” that would regulate the collection of personal data on the Internet. The push from the White House will likely give a boost to the many privacy bills floating in Congress, but what’s next, and what does it all mean for consumers, and constituents? We take a look at the road ahead

The @PressSec Twitter account is back in business, now in the hands of new White House press secretary Jay Carney, who took it over from his predecessor, Robert Gibbs, Yahoo! News’ The Cutline reported.

Carney kicked off his tenure on Twitter with this Tweet, sent late Monday morning:

Ok, let’s turn this machine back on. Jay Carney here, send your Qs my way and I’ll answer a few soon

Still confused about Presidant Obama’s Startup America program? Well, Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has drawn everything out for you on a white board.

As part of the White House White Board series, Goolsbee explains how the public-private initiative is trying to get entrepreneurs over the “valley of death.” He actually presents a fair overview of how it’s all theoretically supposed to work: Entrepreneurs need capital, less red tape, mentorship, and low taxes.

He goes on to say that “Americans understand the business model of a kid in a garage who creates the giant company. We invented it! We’ve done it before, we’re doing it now, and with Startup America we’re gonna do it better than ever!”

You said it Michael Scott! Er… I mean Chairman Goolsbee.

First it was Twitter, then widgets, then Android and the iPhone, Facebook apps, and now Firesheep. Against the drumbeat of almost daily reports of new online privacy breaches, the federal government has done what it does best: create a committee.