First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
Check out Hillary Clinton’s South Carolina victory announcement on Facebook: We just won the South Carolina primary! Text CONGRATS to 47246 to tell Hillary you’re proud to be on her team today. Posted by Hillary Clinton...
Good catch by NPR’s Scott Detrow: both Clinton and Sanders are relying in part on text messages to drive turnout in the Iowa caucuses. With voters harder to reach by traditional methods, SMS is one of the few ways to connect with the mobile...
Regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) is back with us, this time to help you survive the onslaught of cell phones and other mobile devices. Did your website survive Mobilegeddon? What should you be...
Be sure to check out the latest episode of Digital Politics Radio, hosted by Karen Jagoda. Topics this time, in a data-focused episode: Josh Cohen of the Open Supporter Data Interface talks about defining a common API to support interoperability of...
Beware the Borg… The topic of Google Glass and other wearable tech was hot at South by Southwest Interactive this year…not that I saw more than one or two people actually USING Google’s information-displaying, photo-taking...
Our friends over at The Brick Factory came out with a revealing infographic/report today: a look at how mobile usage has changed for their 60+ client content websites over the past few years. The upshot, of course, is that many more people are now...
A few days back, I was on my way to a meeting with folks at NGPVAN, where I’d get a look at the company’s new CRM tools. On the way, I fired up the mobile web to get the exact address, and lookie here! Something interesting popped onto...
Great observation from Shannon Chatlos at CampaignTech: mobile devices are like your toothbrush, in that they’re deeply personal. She was talking in the context of political targeting, since reaching someone on a cellphone is far more...
Inspired by an amusing autocorrect moment on a listserv last week (“hashtags” converted to “hostages,” in the context of a discussion of online activism around marriage equality and the Supreme Court) it’s a serious...