Where do you get your news online? For many of us, it’s through the Facebook newsfeed. As US election 2012 buzz heats up with scandals and gaffes, we took a look at how candidates are using social media to connect with their supporters.
From a social media marketing perspective, here’s how they stack up:
Two Occupy stories to check out, one because it’s awesome and the other because it’s a hell of a metaphor. First, part of the Occupy Day of Action in New York involved laser graffiti projected onto a Verizon building:
What an API does, in essence, is make it easy for the information a service contains to be integrated with the wider Internet. So, to make the metaphor here clear, Occupy Wall Street today can be seen like the early days of Twitter.com. Nearly everyone accessed Twitter information through clients developed by people outside the Twitter HQ. These co-developers made Twitter vastly more useful by adding their own ideas to the basic functionality of the social network. These developers don’t have to take in all of OWS data or use all of the strategies developed at OWS. Instead, they can choose the most useful information streams for their own individual applications (i.e. occupations, memes, websites, essays, policy papers).
Showing some serious geek cred, he next explores the various database calls that would underlie a conceptual OWS API framework. Dude.
