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Hillary and Sarah’s Starbucks Summit

11/16/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Politics

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The Story: Wonder what Hillary and Sarah would talk about if they ever met up for coffee?  We’ve got an idea or two.

The Search: Palin Clinton

On this weekend’s broadcast of NBC’s Meet The Press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told host David Gregory that she’d find the prospect of sitting down with Sarah Palin over a hot cuppa joe “very interesting.”  All of this hullabaloo stems from a passage in the former VP hopeful’s book “Going Rogue” where the hockey mom intimates that if the two ever meet up for some java they would “fundamentally disagree on many issues.”

While that assessment is probably an understatement, we think these two ladies could stand to learn a lot from one another.  We’re not sure if this Starbucks Summit will ever take place, but we have a few ideas about what might come up should these two very different female heads of state ever sip together in or out of the political realm:

1.) Geography- Ms. Palin knows where Russia is and now has even seen parts of Asia. That’s a lot of foreign soil.  However, as a former first lady and current Secretary of State, we think Hillary can help school Sarah on world capitals and foreign leaders that she can’t see from her porch.

2.) Hockey- As a self-professed Hockey Mom, Ms. Palin sure knows her way around the rink.  SP could explain to Hillary why after the 2004-2005 NHL lockout the league’s decision to abolish the two-line pass rule and institute overtime shootouts were pivotal to the survival of the “coolest game on earth.”
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OneRiot Realtime Search Goes Mobile with Taptu

11/10/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under OneRiot News, Politics

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Today OneRiot is excited to announce a partnership with Taptu, the leading mobile search engine. As of this morning, Taptu searchers will find realtime results within Taptu.com’s mobile-optimized search experience, signifying the first integration of realtime results by a mobile search provider.

Taptu is the first mobile company to make use of the OneRiot realtime search API, incorporating the web’s freshest, most buzzed about content into Taptu’s mobile touch-friendly interface. Mobile users can now search the realtime web or browse trending topics, fulfilling a need for people to discover realtime, socially-influenced content on the go – one of the most significant developments in mobile search to date. picture-280

We had lots of fun working with the Taptu team while bringing this alliance to life, picking up lots of fascinating things about mobile search in the process. It’s interesting territory – rapidly expanding, increasingly significant territory – and it’s more dependent on realtime information than anything before.

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Fun facts about mobile search:

+ The majority of mobile searches originate from smartphones, a market that represents 15% of the handheld market (and that grew by over 105% in 2008)

+ With the advent of the iPhone, mobile search has grown by 5x in frequency

+ Mobile search requires a different version of optimization than desktop search, supporting a different set of desires and expectations. According to behavioral research, mobile searchers expect to be entertained as well as informed, and want to discover web pages that are optimized for mobile (many of the websites indexed by traditional search engines are not).

+ A full 41% of cell phone owners (smart or otherwise) say they fill in free time when they are traveling or waiting for someone by making phone calls, and many of these owners do so using search

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These realities and more serve to confirm one of the most buzzed about revelations of the past few years: People are thinking of their mobiles as a portable computer, relying on their cell phones as a source of information, entertainment and sociability. But like we said, these on-the-fly information seekers are distinctly different than their desktop browsing counterparts. Sometimes, they’re searching for distinct pieces of information – for example, the phone number of a restaurant they’re hoping to make a reservation at – but frequently they have other goals in mind. Mobile search is more social, discovery-driven and experience sensitive than its predecessor - which is why its taken a new, specified engine like Taptu to make some sense of it all.

As we’ve chatted about before, realtime results help people find what’s happening, right now, for any subject. Not long ago, finding that fresh information required a steady perch at your desktop, but today that ‘nowness’ is in no way confined to a monitor. OneRiot believes that the mobile web is inherently suited for the fresh, buzzworthy events of the realtime web – in fact, it is frequently the very source of it - and we know that the future of mobile search is bright.

The Taptu/OneRiot partnership has brought a new level of accessibility to realtime search, allowing people on the go to find the news that matter most, right now. We know you’ll love the first result of our ongoing collaborations with Taptu, and we can’t wait to show you the rest in the coming weeks.

Learn more about realtime and mobile search with the Taptu and OneRiot Whitepapers:

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taptu-logoTaptu search with OneRiot results is available on the major touch devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Nokia N 97 and 5800, and the Blackberry Storm 1. Read Taptu’s blog about the partnership here!

BBC Triggers Controversy Over Free Speech

10/22/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under International Affairs, Politics

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It’s not often that matters solely encompassing political affairs of the British Isles make lasting impressions throughout the course of the day. The fickle nature of trending topics tends to guarantee that almost precisely at the moment we choose to tackle one in blog form, it disappears. Today, however, “BBC” and “Nick Griffin” have managed to stay afloat atop our fair list of topics. On first glance, these two seemed separate. We thought perhaps the BBC was trending because Monty Python is celebrating their 40th year of hilarity, and maybe everyone in Britain was checking feverishly to see what time a special is going to air on BBC…and not really knowing who Nick Griffin is, we figured that maybe he was a new dynamite contestant on Britain’s Got Talent. Upon further investigation this could not be further from the truth. (more…)

Census Reports 150,000 Same Sex Marriages

9/22/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Politics, US

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Although America at large has been slow to accept gay marriage, the gay community seems to be carrying on with the business of official couplehood without much notice of legislation that doesn’t favor their lifestyle. The census shows that almost 150,000 same sex couples reported being married despite their particular brand of marriage being illegal in their states. (more…)

Steel Cage Match: Dodd vs. McMahon

9/16/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Politics, US

Over the last several months the debate over healthcare has made congress look like it was embroiled in WWE Battle Royale. Barack Obama’s big speech made us feel like he was the last man standing in the ring, just before Joe Wilson made it apparent that Republicans were still hanging onto the top rope and about to charge directly at the president’s bill with a folding chair slung over their shoulders. All Wrestling metaphors aside, it looks like another Royal Rumble may be coming to the Connecticut political arena just in time for the 2010 election!

picture-2315Linda McMahon, CEO of the WWE and wife of the organization’s Chairman, Vince McMahon, has announced her intentions to run for the Republican nomination for Connecticut Senatorial Seat currently occupied by “Kid Dynamite” Chris Dodd. Instead of the engaging in the typical electoral process, The Moderate Mawler is aiming at a steel cage ladder match lasting three falls. Should Mrs. McMahon take the Senatorial Championship, CSPAN is expected to become a lot more interesting as it will feature frequent filibusters from the likes of Macho Man Randy Savage and The Rock, not to mention every Monday Night you’ll be able to catch CSPAN Raw where government disputes are settled in the ring. Now that’s what I call Government!

Carter Calls Out Racism

9/16/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Politics

picture-2222Jimmy Carter has nothing to lose, which is why you can believe he’s being sincere. In a nation where racial tensions have yet to be addressed in their entirety, few credible speakers have the balls to call a foul when one is due, so when distrust ran rampant and decorum degraded into childish name calling in response to the nation electing its first black president, no reasonable voices rose to the occasion. Yesterday, former president Carter called it what it was: fear of a black president. (more…)

RiotFeeds Spotlight: Pulse On Politics

9/15/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Politics, US

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Question: However are you supposed to impress ivy-league ladies with your all-encompassing political knowledge when new stories are always emerging?

Answer: Riotfeeds. Specifically PulseOnDems, PulseOnGOP, and PulseOnNews.

With press releases here, new policies there, and a dash of government scandals thrown into the mix, it’s easy to fall behind on the current events - but when you follow one of these accounts via Twitter, you’ll find a steady fill of the freshest rightly and leftly inclined stories and political updates. Because nothing’s sexier than a man who knows his Obama trivia, right ladies?

If politics ain’t your thing, check out the our full list of Riotfeeds at http://riotfeeds.com

Rep. Joe Wilson Knows Politics

9/10/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Politics

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As the president spoke, they held up signs, refused to clap or stand up, and even yelled stuff - honest to goodness mean stuff - right at the president.

For years, our houses of Congress maintained a level of decorum, at least when in the same room. Through the veils of polite speech and diplomatic discussion, these elected do-gooders simply managed to smile and pat each others’ backs, only passively representing their respective constituencies. For all those years, no one recognized that in order to represent your people, you have to be one of them. And dammit, lunatics at town hall meetings are Americans too. (more…)

Lady Bush Supports Obama, Literate Youth

9/08/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Politics, US

picture-349President Obama inherited a lot of undesirable elements from the previous presidential administration: two wars, a flailing economy, and a sizable debt, to name just a few. While Dubya has yet to offer so much as a whimper of an apology for putting the next President into such a politically precarious situation, The Decider’s legacy as a generally crappy decision maker has been overshadowed by his party’s quest to vilify any and all suggestions the current President makes in the attempt to get us out of this mess. Granted, not all of President Obama’s decisions have been golden eggs, but the dude is trying.

Unfortunately, partisan politics seems to follow him at every turn, whether he’s being labeled “the great indoctrinator” for trying to merely tell kids to stay in school or a “socialist” for his attempt to (gasp) get people cheaper health care. As the President continues to dodge slanderous projectiles from the extreme right and even extreme left, he’s finally found himself some conservative support from the unlikeliest of places… the wife of the man who got us into a good deal of this mess. (more…)

Brainwashed Parents Fear Same Fate for Children

9/03/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Politics, US

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When you don’t agree with a guy on one thing, not only are you likely to have disparate views on everything, but he’s probably going after your children too. Patches of parents across the country are trembling with fear over what President Obama might say in his scheduled address to the nation’s students on Tuesday. Many fear that he may, with his proven special powers, brainwash our nation’s incandescent youth to fulfill the world domination scheme that began when he announced his candidacy for president. (more…)

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