politics

You asked, we listened. When you said you wanted more guests we went out and hunted for a guest. Not ONLY did we find one- but we found a darn good one at that! Check it out and decide for yourself: Gamerloop  [02:44] Bboy360 Shout Out [07:18] Bing's State of the Union  [09:00]…

Microsoft just unveiled a crowd-sourced engagement platform called Microsoft Town Hall. The project, a Windows Azure-hosted toolkit, is designed for use by politicians interested in building online communities where constituents can vote on issues, voice their opinions, identify problems, ask…

The Live Search team has just updated their xRank site’s special U.S. election feature with new information. Now, xRank Politician includes all the candidates running for president, governor, and congress. On the site, you can compare the search trends for opposing candidates to see who’s being…

The Live Labs team has just released a new project, Political Streams, and just in time as the U.S. Presidential election draws near. The site mines social media from across the internet, including blogs, newsgroups, and web sites, in order to track what stories are popular and if that popularity…

A recent post on the Windows Vista Blog provides info on a great new resource for Media Center PC users just in time for the vice-presidential debates tonight: Election News! Under the TV + Movies section in Media Center, you’ll now see a new title called MSNBC News Beta. This title will be…

Are you a political junkie? Here in the U.S. it's hard not to be when it's election season. With so much going on - rallies, debates, and economic crises - it seems that the poll numbers change every day. Now you don't have to wait on the news to give you the latest info from the presidential polls…

Xbox and Rock the Vote have partnered up in order to reach out to young voters through the Xbox community. Starting August 25th – the same day as the first day of the Democratic National Convention - Xbox 360 owners will be able to register to vote, participate in presidential polls, and voice…

Donavon West, a regular on Channel 9 and also the man behind HomeServerHacks.com, has created a gigapixel Deep Zoom from Obama supporter thumbnails - 12,000 to be exact, spread across a 10,000 x 10,000 pixel photo of Barack Obama. Some of the images are higher res than others (higher res images…

What a great time for BLEWS...while blogging about politics is at an all-time high, BLEWS simplifies the debates for you...here's what I found out at TechFest 2008.  While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader…

A new Live Search promotional site, Left vs. Right, has been launched. The site features two new anchors, left-leaning "Patrick O'Neil" and right-wing "Britt Hayes," who represent both sides of the political spectrum. In the middle of the page is a search box which will perform…