With Election Day 2010 under way, we thought it would be helpful to compile a brief list of useful resources on the web to find information about the mid-term races, candidates and voting polls. Feel free to add your own recommendations in comments.
Google Election Center: The search platform allows users to input their address to find the closest polling location, state election office, links to the state election websites, and lists the candidates who are running in the races at the Federal level.
Facebook Politics: Facebook has developed a dedicated U.S. Politics page where you can find your polling location, and access a livestream of election coverage courtesy of ABC News and Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg.
New York Times: The FiveThirtyEight, and the site’s U.S. Politics platform provide a comprehensive view into polling stats on the House, Senate and State Governor seats up for grabs.
PoliticsDaily, Politico and RealPoliticsDaily all provide similar coverage of breaking news coming from the races on both the federal and state levels.
Foursquare “I Voted”: Foursquare is tracking check-ins at polling places throughout the day and evening. Foursquare partnered with data visualization startup JESS3 to create a live, interactive map of each check in at polling sites. Twitter is also encouraging users to add the hashtag #ivoted to any Tweets about voting during the day.
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...
Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing...
Foursquare is a geographical location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Users share their location with friends by “checking in” via a smartphone app or by text message. Points are awarded for checking in at various venues. Users can connect their Foursquare accounts to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, which can update when a check in is registered. By checking in a certain number of times, or in different locations, users can collect virtual badges. In addition, users...
Created in 2006, Twitter is a global real-time communications platform with 400 million monthly visitors to twitter.com, more than 200 million monthly active users around the world. We see a billion tweets every 2.5 days on every conceivable topic. World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations and entertainment outlets are among the millions of active Twitter accounts through which users can truly get the pulse of the planet.
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