How Obama Will Use Web Technology

President Barack Obama was sworn into office this week as our nation’s 44th president. Despite running into a few technical challenges in the first few days at the White House, the Obama Administration will embrace technology in unprecedented ways. Led by forward thinking, web savvy technologists, President Obama’s new media team looks poised and ready to fulfill President Obama’s vision of open-source democracy.
Coincident with Mr. Obama being sworn in, the Obama Administration’s new media team assumed control of WhiteHouse.gov at 12:01 PM EST on Tuesday. This is the official website of the sitting administration. The new media team has identified three top priorities of the new administration – communication, transparency and participation. Let’s examine how the new administration has been leveraging web technologies to meet these priorities.
Communication. This administration’s use of Google’s YouTube during both the campaign and after winning the election leverages Internet video to reach a generation of Americans and global citizens who no longer tune in to AM radio on a regular basis. President Obama has vowed to continue video recording his fireside chats and publishing them via YouTube and other video sites. With the transition of WhiteHouse.gov to the new administration, for the first time ever an official White House blog came online. You can sign up for email updates from the president. Through the blog, Mr. Obama is the first U.S. president to have an RSS feed!
During the campaign President Obama relied heavily on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter to build support, communicate with constituents and develop a core audience. By far, Mr. Obama has more followers on Twitter than anyone else (168,000). His fan page on Facebook has more than 4 million fans.
Transparency. Mr. Obama promises to run the most open, honest and transparent administration to date. Through the Your Seat at The Table section on the CHANGE.GOV transition site, the Obama transition team posted the minutes of hundreds of private meetings with then President-Elect Obama.
Even all of the content on the CHANGE.GOV site, unless otherwise noted, is licensed to the public at large via a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The Obama-Biden Transition Team used my company, blist, to disclose the names of all donors to the transition project. Two key points of note are that the disclosure was entirely voluntary and the tool they chose to use made the data itself much more consumable by the mainstream public. Compared to a plain HTML table, which is bulky, cumbersome and hard to work with, by publishing the data via a blist widget the data can easily be sorted, searched, filtered, downloaded, printed, emailed and even republished – all capabilities not previously enjoyed by most consumers of public data sets.
Participation. The Obama Administration has been conducting bold experiments in interactive government. The Citizen’s Briefing Book, powered by Salesforce.com, has allowed citizens to suggest topics Mr. Obama should consider upon taking office. Once a topic was submitted, other visitors to the Citizen’s Briefing Book could vote the topic up or down and comment on it. Voting, ranking and commenting are hallmark features of web-based, social media applications.
The new Administration has brought forth a new era of honest, open, participatory and transparent government by creatively employing web-based software from innovative companies like Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com and blist. We’re eager to see the use of these technologies extended to WhiteHouse.gov initially and from there we’d love to see more government agencies quickly embrace web technologies to promote communication, transparency and participation.

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Bermuda Triangle Mystery

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared in mysterious circumstances which fall beyond the boundaries of human error, pirates, equipment failure, or natural disasters. Popular culture has attributed some of these disappearances to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings.[1]

A substantial body of documentation exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have gone on record as stating that the number and nature of disappearances is similar to any other area of ocean, however proponents of paranormal phenomena claim that many incidents remain unexplained despite considerable investigation.

Friends

Whenever we feel alone and dejected we always think about company of a good friend, its the first thing which comes into our mind and the persons who accompany us any time we need them, we should also think about our friends need, how he feels about us and if he is in trouble how can assist him. Think how you can become a good friend after eliminating your habits which all friends dislike.

some days are cold and dark.
Some make us feel so alone.
Some days are hard to understand.
On those days God knew we'd need
an extra hug or two.
So he gave us friends.
So that we would always have
an angel close when we needed one.

Save Power..!!

Entertain these cost saving ideas.

• Turn off your electronic entertainment devices when you aren’t using them and watch your savings add up.
  
• Computers, TVs, VCRs, CD and DVD players and other home electronics use energy even when they are turned off. In the average home, 40 per cent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Consider unplugging your electronics or turning off the power bar when you’re finished with them.
  
• A plasma T.V. that’s the same size as your older T.V. can use twice the energy. And the bigger your T.V., the more power it uses.
  
• Save up to $57 a year by shutting down your computer for 12 hours a day.
  
• Screen savers don’t save power; they just protect your screen. Instead, use the sleep-mode or energy-saving feature on your computer and save $18 a year.
  
• Save power by turning off your computer monitor when you'll be away from your computer for more than 10 minutes.
  
• Consider using a laptop instead of a desktop computer. Laptops use up to 90 per cent less power.
  
• The smaller your computer monitor is, the less electricity it will use.
  
• Flat-screen LCD computer monitors use about 66 per cent less electricity than standard monitors.
  
• Turning a computer on and off doesn't use any extra electricity and won't damage your computer. Shutting it down reduces the wear on your computer and cuts down on your power use.
  

Every country in the world is going to be the victim of power crisis. But developing countries like India are going to face real problems very soon if we do not conserve power. So here are some basic tips which will help to reduce the power consumption in daily life.

Power saving tips:
Air conditioners
Keep the temperature at 23 degrees which is sufficient normally.
Use coolers instead of air conditioners.
Keep doors to the air conditioned area closed so less power is utilized.

Cell Phones
Use car chargers instead of plugging the charger into a wall socket at home.
Do not keep your phone for charging overnight it can also damage your battery by over charging.
When using the computer, charge your phone using the USB port (if possible).
This uses the power from the PSU-which may otherwise be wasted.

Desktop
Use LCD (TFT) monitors or TVs instead of CRTs whenever possible because CRT consumes more power.
If you aren't keen on playing games, avoid installing a graphics card, especially models with liquid cooling solutions.
Avoid over clocking your processor or graphics card if not necessary.
Set the monitor to automatically shut off or go in standby mode when idle.
Turn the monitor off when your computer is unattended.
Reduce the monitor’s luminosity till the point it is visible.

Laptops
Reduce the luminance of the back light.
Keep the wireless switch turned off if you are not connected to a network.
Charge your laptop batteries only after the battery is fully drained.
Use the balanced mode in power options which will help to utilize the processor only when needed.

General
When alone, use stereo headphones instead of Hi-Fi speakers.
When family members dine or watch TV in the same room, the need for lights and fans elsewhere doesn't arise so ensure that all other lights and fans are switched off.
Instead of keeping the television, music system, printer, scanner, speaker and any other appliance and device, on standby mode, switch them off completely. You can remove the power plug of devices which are not used from the socket and conserve power.
Keep a regular check on your monthly bill to curb power consumption.

So remember the above tips whenever you are dealing with electricity. This can help the country to overcome the power crisis to an extent and also you will be benefited by saving cash paid for your electricity bills.

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born on May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer-songwriter, model, and actor.

Iglesias started his musical career with Mexican indie label Fonovisa, which helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latino market in the United States, selling more Spanish language albums than any other artist in that period of time.

Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover into the mainstream English languagemarket, signing a unique multi–album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums.

Iglesias has sold over 60 million albums worldwide,^[1] has had two Billboard Hot 100 #1s and one #3, and holds the record for producing 19 number #1 Spanish–language singles on theBillboard's Hot Latin Tracks.