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  A Freed Change.gov Gets Wigitized, iPhone Apped

  http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33326/a_freed_change...
  35 days ago in techPresident – How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them. · Authority: 791

  Get the Change.gov widget Change.gov the website is so yesterday. Today, it's Change.gov the widget, iPhone app, and mobile tool. We noted a few days ago that online home of the Obama-Biden Transition Project had swapped out traditional copyright for a far looser Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license -- one that invites users to have their way with the site's contents, as long as they give credit back to Obama. Now a new service called Cerado Ventana has packaged Change.gov in a way that makes it easier to interact with the site through other portals, as Christopher Carfi of the Social Customer Manifesto reports. The widget, for examples, includes the sites news feed, "team" roster, and agenda. Then, for those inspired by the president-elect, the app also provides a window on to the new growth field of Obama-inspired books. Cerado Ventana, which only launched in the middle of last month, is oriented towards consumers, giving businesses a way to create to create self-contained apps that provide an alternative to websites, with some social features thrown in. Is Creative Commons Responsible? The question remains is this: would have seen something like these nifty new apps and widget had Obama give a giant bear hug to Creative Commons on Monday and embraced its loosened version of copyright? Consider that once Obama is installed in the Oval Office, whatever comes out of the White House is, of course, free for the taking. Copyright can't be claimed for official government content. But even our attorney president-elect probably isn't about go running around enforcing his copyright claims during this fuzzy pre-presidential period, right? So we're not necessarily looking at causation, here. Maybe we'd be seeing a flowering of mobile tools off of Change.gov either way. That said, setting the tone of remixable government like they did probably didn't hurt. If that's the case, maybe we should be focusing less on the signifier -- Creative Commons licences, scripted video responses on policy topics

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    Change.gov iPhone Web App Now Available

    http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2008/12/changegov-iphon...
    24 days ago in Tech-Ex · Authority: 77

    Barack Obama certainly used tech to his advantage during the 2008 Presidential Election, and he's not stopping there. Since the election, he has opened up his Change.gov transition site, added OpenID login for commenters, and changed the copyright license for the site to a much more liberal Creative Commons license. And last week, largely due to the Creative Commons license, an iPhone web app was released as well. Just to be clear, this isn't an App Store app, but a web app. And it wasn't created by Obama's team, but by Cerado, using their Ventana service. And in all honesty, they also have a web app for other mobile devices, as well as a widget you can post on your site. You can find all of them here. Here's what Christopher Carfi, co-founder of Cerado, had to say on his site, about Creative Commons on Change.gov and the creation of these apps and widgets: This opening up of the content on Change.gov has the stated intent that "anyone can take the policy points and discussions from the site and create their own remix or branch of it." Thanks to this important step by the administration, we were able to create both mobile and widget versions of the site using Cerado Ventana.

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      Change.gov iPhone App Now Available

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      24 days ago in ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media · Authority: 7,553

      Earlier this month we noted that Barack Obama's Presidential transition site Change.gov had added OpenID login for commenters and that the site had traded the traditional copyright for the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Last week, the iPhone app for Change.gov was added to Apple's Web apps page, thanks to the Creative Commons license. Sponsor According to Christopher Carfi, co-founder of Cerado, the company behind the creation of the widgets, the fact that Change.gov is now iPhone, mobile and widget-enabled is largely due to Change.gov opening up its content with the Creative Commons license. In addition to the iPhone app, using their Ventana service, Cerado created a widget version of Change.gov that includes a news and agenda feed, links to the team, as well as links to Obama inspired books on Amazon. You can download it here. Discuss

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        Take Change.gov with you anywhere

        http://www.socialmedia.biz/2008/12/take-changegov.html
        33 days ago in Social Media · Authority: 288

        Christopher Carfi at the Social Customer Manifesto offers thanks to the incoming Obama administration's vision in opening up Change.gov content with Creative Commons and says, "We have created iPhone and widget based versions of Change.gov, and a new conduit for citizens and government to connect. Here's the story. IPhone version (You can get the iPhone and other mobile versions here) Widget version (You can get the widget here)

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          Wow. This is huge.

          http://www.diaryofareluctantblogger.com/2008/12/wow-this-is-...
          34 days ago in Socialfishing... · Authority: 56

          Change.gov goes Creative Commons, and mobile. "What does this mean? It means the following: When (technology + information + inspiration) are allowed to work together, astounding things can happen in the blink of an eye. Innovation can happen, anywhere, at near-instantaneous speed."

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            Creative Commons gov

            http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2008/12/03/creative...
            35 days ago in Everything is Miscellaneous · Authority: 106

            Change.gov, the transition site, has moved its content to a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. So, anyone can use it so long as they attribute it back to its source. Very cool. Open content is, of course, a creativity magnet. Already, apps have sprung up that let you get Change.gov content on your iPhone and as a widget elsewhere. A government whose first instinct is toward openness! What a difference a mere 69 million votes can make! Next: Putting government under revision control, as Tim O’Reilly advocates. [Tags: obama e-gov transparency creative_commons tim_oreilly ]

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              Creative Commons gov

              http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/03/creative-commons-...
              35 days ago in Joho the Blog · Authority: 375

              Change.gov, the transition site, has moved its content to a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. So, anyone can use it so long as they attribute it back to its source. Very cool. Open content is, of course, a creativity magnet. Already, apps have sprung up that let you get Change.gov content on your iPhone and as a widget elsewhere. A government whose first instinct is toward openness! What a difference a mere 69 million votes can make! Next: Putting government under revision control, as Tim O’Reilly advocates. [Tags: obama e-gov transparency creative_commons tim_oreilly ]

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                Why Obama is Smarter Than Your Company

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                35 days ago in Gen-Y + Youth Culture Marketing, Social Media + Music | Greg Rollett · Authority: 31

                photo by 416style Obama and the Change.gov team understand that people like information. They also understand that they like information on their own terms, timeline and in their underwear (personal preference I suppose). As of this weekend, the content on Change.gov has been licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. From their copyright page : Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Content includes all materials posted by the Obama-Biden Transition project. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Change.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. What does this mean. It means that companies like Cerado Ventana can make really cool iPhone and widget applications that people can take with them with the message from Obama and his transition team. It means that the man that is going to lead this country for at least the next 4 years is more hip that most Fortune 500 companies. It means that Obama is not scared to share information for the benefit of the country. (Obviously not counting Intelligence and all that good stuff, come on now haters) It means that we are free to share this information freely, talk about it and hold someone accountable for their actions in office What Obama realized in his campaign is that he wanted everyone to be able to share in his message and he is carrying it across in his adventure to the White House. He knew that one 19-year old girl would better connect on Facebook to his beliefs than the 25 year old gamer who ventures through YouTube and differs from the 40-year old lawyer who reads the Washington Post online to the 33-year old engineer who gets his news on the iPhone. Information is no longer yours. Information is in an abundance on the Internet. Hell, everything is in abundance on the Internet. If you are not bringing your message in as many places as possible, someone else will find your competitor. You may have videos on YouTube that get 100,000 views and choose not to use Viddler or Vimeo due to their smaller traffic. But someone does, and they may be your biggest fan in the waiting. If you knew about TubeMogul , you would know that with one upload you can have that video on every site imaginable for video with the same great descriptive text, tags and title as the one you spend so much time prepping for YouTube. This is just one example people! Stop pretending that traffic to YOUR site is king. Traffic to your INFORMATION is king. Get your information everywhere and you can be the Obama of your industry. He called it Change for a reason. -Greg Rollett (hattip to the Social Customer Manifesto ) P.S. Bonus, hot track from Asher Roth, B.o.B. and Charles Hamilton - Change Gunna Come Change Gonna Come (feat. Charles Hamilton and Asher Roth) by B.o.B Free eBook from Gen-Y Rock Strs - 100 Social Media Resources for Musicians by Greg Rollett

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                  Get Change.gov on your phone or blog

                  http://ext337.org/article/GetChangegovonyourphoneorblog
                  35 days ago in ext337 · Authority: 40

                  Thanks to a nifty application called Cerado Ventana, the content on Change.gov is now portable. Sure, it’s already portable in the way that all websites are. But Cerado Ventana makes it easy to view on your iPhone or other mobile device and to embed, widget-style on your blog. The really interesting part, from my perspective, is the ability to create community around your widget so that you can see who else is following the ideas you’re hooked in to. Check out this post from Christohpher Carfi to find out more. (Side note: I’ve been playing with Cerado Ventana for a bit and think it has some good users for nonprofiteers. So do check it out.) tagged: net2, mobile, nptech, tools, change.gov, cerado ventana

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