The Google Politics team posted about a new initiative today, wanting to get user assistance in spotting political campaign trends. It has long been thought that political campaigns could be...

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Facebook has filed to establish FB PAC, a political action committee intended to "give [Facebook's] employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process," presumably over and above voting and contributing independently to campaigns and other PACs.

The company has spent about a million dollars lobbying over the last three years, according to Senate records and documented by OpenSecrets, with the sum spent increasing every year. For comparison, Microsoft, which also has its own PAC, [...]

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QR code has slowly crept into our daily routines without any fair warning, which may not be the most catastrophic concept in our world, but it sure has people questioning the reason for QR. For those of us who understand its existence, we are always trying to find new and clever ways to incorporte QR into our social marketing campaigns and daily routines. Todd Ogasawara discussed the use of QR for making presentations to a group, which is a great way to catch the group's attention. For those of [...]

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On the same day we reported that Twitter, Facebook and RIM were being hauled in front of the UK government again to discuss the recent UK riots, it transpires that three of the UK's top politicians have all joined Google+.As the FT reports, Prime Minister and Conservative party leader David Cameron, Liberal Democrats leader and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour party leader Ed Milliband all signed up to Google's social network today. And here's what they each had to say in their inaugu [...]

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