The times they are a changing. This year the politics of fear go head to head with the audacity of hope. Democrats have come out in record numbers to vote in the presidential primaries and caucuses to date. The current Democratic front runner, Barack Obama, has inspired a new generation of young and independent voters. Both he and Hillary Clinton are promoting plans which would help create a more fair and equitable United States.
But the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton is very close. No matter what happens in Pennsylvania or any of the other remaining states, neither candidate will have clinched the nomination when all the voting is finished in June. The next presidential candidate will be determined by the remaining Democratic superdelegates.
No matter who is chosen, it will be a proud and groundbreaking moment for the United States. If a Democrat is elected, the next US president will be either a woman or a black man.
If you were a superdelegate, how would you vote? The Yahoo! Media Innovation Group has built an app called Be a Superdelegate, which runs on both Facebook and MySpace. It lets you cast your own superdelegate vote and show support for your presidential pick by putting a virtual campaign button on your Facebook or MySpace profile page. What’s especially fun about the Superdelegate app is that a vote you cast on MySpace will appear on Facebook and vice versa. Like the Texas prima-caucus, you can even vote twice – once on each network.
Earlier this month, MySpace went live with their application platform, which supports OpenSocial. Now we’re starting to see the emergence of cross platform social apps – a pretty cool development. Could it be that leading Internet companies large and small can work together and share content and data to make the Web a better place for everyone? Yes we can. Yes we can.
Be a Superdelegate today!
Hillary Obama battle by mr_magoo
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William White, March 21st, 2008 on 4:34 pm
Superdelegates have enormous power in the 2008 US Presidential election. Voters have already cast millions of votes for the Democratic nominee, but neither candidate will have enough votes to win outright. It looks like a few hundred superdelegate votes will determine whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton faces off against John McCain in the US election later this year.
Be a Superdelegate is an app that runs on either Facebook or MySpace and lets you cast your own superdelegate vote. Follow the results of all superdelegate voting in real time on our interactive map and show support for your favorite candidate by displaying their badge on your profile page.
Don't let your candidate lose this all important superdelegate race! Add this app today and get your friends to vote too!
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Vibes is a social experiment tracking the flow of kindness across the world. Do you have a friend with the flu? A brother or sister with a big job interview tomorrow? Or do you just want to let someone know you're thinking of them?
Send them some good vibes, and watch in real time as people across the world share their kindness.
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Vibes is a Facebook app. You must be a logged in Facebook user to add the Vibes application. If you're already using Facebook, you can grab the app here.
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“How much kindness is there in the world?” I asked myself one morning as I showered (my best inner-monologues take place in the shower). “Can it be measured? Does it change hour by hour? Season to season? City to city?”
“Every day,” I thought, while shampooing, “people send one another IMs, text messages, emails, comment on each other’s MySpace profiles, and write on each other’s Facebook walls, leaving affirmations of friendship, love, and support. It’s disorganized now, but let’s try to channel, visualize, and measure it.”
The Apps Studio team agreed that this was a pretty cool idea, and thus was born Vibes (an application initially for Facebook). We describe Vibes as a social experiment tracking the flow of kindness across the world. Have a friend with the flu? A brother or sister with a big job interview tomorrow? Or do you just want to let someone know you're thinking of them? Send them some good vibes, and watch in real time as people across the world share their kindness.
The Apps Studio is a small, new tiger team committed to building best-in-class social applications for Yahoo!, sometimes extending existing Yahoo! services and sometimes creating entirely new ones (like Vibes). When my mom used to cook, her guiding principal was “everything’s better with cheese.” When the Apps Studio cooks up new apps, our guiding principal is “everything’s better with friends.”
We are very excited by the recent advances in social application platforms and the types of new online experiences they allow. Our goal is to bring your favorite Yahoo! products to you and your friends, wherever you all may be.
So, we hope you’ll check out Vibes and send a few to your friends. Stay tuned for more from our team.
P.S. At the time of this writing L.A. and S.F. seem to be the kindest cities. East Coast, consider that a challenge.
Scuba diving aftermath photo by Delgoff.
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Matt Kozlov, February 22nd, 2008 on 12:15 pm
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