Barack Obama - "President 2.0"

Zascar

"John F. Kennedy was helped into the White House by the increasing popularity of a new medium: television. The same can be said about President-Elect Barack Obama, who was greatly helped by a new medium: Social Media"

Obama the first president who really 'gets' the internet. He used Web 2.0 Technologies such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to aid his campaign, and his www.change.gov website is excellent, based on very up to date technologies, now even using the Open ID Standard to allow people to leave comments on his blog posts. He posts a weekly address speeches on Youtube - its being described as a 'Transparent Presidency'.

Back during the presidential race, Obama was planning to appoint a Chief Technology Officer for the USA. The CTO will establish the national broadband network, securing state computing systems and creating an electronic medical records system like the one the UK has been trying to deliver.

Lets hope for big changes resulting in good things for Technology

towel401

you realise this is all spin rite? and that its unlikely that he personally uses all of those ****ty web 2.0 social sites but rather has an army of PR artists doing it for him

Zascar

He's the President of the United States. If he had time himself to be using twitter and facebook I'd be very worried. He has teams of people doing this for him, the point is that he is technology focused and personally I think this is going to mean some really great things. Think if McCain was president how different it would be - the guy does not even use email.

towel401

I think it's just going to mean more DRM, censorship and surveillance but i'm a bitter old sod.

if someone else is doing it for him it might as well not be done at all. it's just pretending he's something he is not.

look he's already taken over the 'missing email' case and voted for a controversial wiretapping law. obama is overrated