The Importance of Being Everywhere: VAs McDonnell and NYC's Bloomberg Go Full Google

Oh,
those time-honored traditions of democracy. Spreading leaflets
door-to-door. Holding up signs at busy intersections. And, at least in
recent elections, the Google network blast. Two candidates whose
chances for victory tomorrow range from pretty likely to
go-ahead-and-bet-the-rent-money-on-it are taking no chances, employing
the somewhat cutting-edge Google network blast technique to blanket the
Internet experience of potential voters in their regions with
advertisements touting their bona fides.

Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With a Widget

Since it was turned on for all users late last week, everyone is talking about Twitter’s new Lists feature. Most people seem to like it, but some have no idea what it’s good for. Perhaps those people will understand a bit more about Lists potential with a new widget that Twitter has launched today.

The List Widget is exactly what you’d expect: A widget that you can place on your blog that displays a list of your choosing. One nice thing is that this can be a list you made or one any user has made (that is public). If you simply type in a user’s name, it will show their lists in a drop down menu. You then give the list a title, a caption, customize its look and feel, and you’re good to go.

10 Twitter List Widgets You Can Grab & Embed Right Now

The good folks at Twitter recently rolled out list-making capabilities for all users, finally catching up to functions that many desktop and web apps have featured for a while.

In addition to allowing users to create their own curations, Twitter has also added a basic widget-maker for adding tweets from any user's list to any given website. And since re-embedding the code for Twitter's widget is still kind of a pain, we've hand-picked ten great lists and created widgets from them for your expedited enjoyment and copy-pasteable hijacking. You're welcome!