Like every other geek in the world I was listening/watching/tweeting iPhone 2.0 today as Steve Jobs announced the 3G iPhone and the new iPhone apps.

Most of the new apps make use of GPS (and other location finders) to feed you data, relevant to your location. Also announced was the "Enterprise Apps" which allows an organization (or other group) to create a private app that can only be used by authorized iPhones. My first though/tweet was...

Imagine 100 poll workers, door to door teams, etc. all equipped with iPhones which are being fed local relevant data. You could walk down the street and have all the information for each house being sent directly from headquarters, you could take a poll and have instant data analysis, check off all the contacted people so no one is visited more than once.

All this can now be done by volunteers in their free time, after work, lunch break etc.

Most campaigns have already made the switch from land lines to cell phones for call centers. iPhone 2.0 takes this to the next level.

These are just a few possibilities I thought of, Aaron Marks over at TheNextRight.com had more thoughts.

Your turn, how do you see the new iPhone being used in political campaigns?

New changes at facebook were announced today.

Today, Facebook Ads launched with three parts: a way for businesses to build pages on Facebook to connect with their audiences; an ad system that facilitates the spread of brand messages virally through Facebook Social Ads™; and an interface to gather insights into people’s activity on Facebook that marketers care about.

Politicians and facebook have been around for a while now and a politician on facebook is a strange animal. While they are people they don’t mess with their profiles. With the advent of new facebook pages a politician can now fit in a little better.

So far Barack Obama has the first facebook page that I have found

The new pages look like a profile/group hybrid. They are designed for companies to have a facebook presence and gather fans, the ability to do a mass mailing to all your fans, as well as way to integrate targeted facebook ads.For a politician on a grand scale i.e. presidential elections this will have an impact but on a smaller local scale I think pages will have a tremendous effect.A county commissioner can set up a facebook page, gather supporter and also run targeted facebook ads to just the conservatives in his town above the age of 18. Think google ads combined with a facebook page for your politician/business with targeting down to, age, sex, region, keywords etc.To bad it was released after the Nov 6th election cycle, it would have been fun to test out.

Those are my half formed thoughts after messing with pages for an hour so put on your thinking caps and discuss how this can help us techrepublicans.

IMHO - it's going to be BIG

Episode one of my new vlog, "Hit or Miss," which identifies some positive "Hits" and "Misses" for Republicans.