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Monthly Round Up: May
So here’s the deal: at the end of every month we’re going to give you our unsolicited commentary on what happened during said month. From politics and pop culture to pretty useless information, you’ll be able to find it in our Monthly Round Up. (you don’t have to tell us how …
Oh, What A Night.
How’s your hangover? Ours is still kicking and we’re confident it will see us through the rest of the week. This past Saturday was the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but the partying started well before the weekend and Sunday hangovers were nursed with more booze and brunch. It was the eighth and final …
Click the Vote
Google’s New Patent Would Enable You to Vote Online. Can you imagine electing the next president of the United States with a simple click? Google was recently awarded a new patent that outlines a proprietary voter user interface (or VUI for those of us who can only handle three letters …
Don’t Google That
Rick Santorum just dropped out of the presidential race. Back in the day, however (when he was still in the running) he showed up to our first pre-debate event in Cleveland, Ohio. Even further back in the day, the name “Santorum” was displaced by a neologism and instead of getting information …
Steven E. Johnston Making Serious Moves
Steve Johnston has joined Google as an Account Executive on the Republican politics team. Most recently, he ran digital for Dan Sullivan’s winning Senate campaign in Alaska. He previously did product marketing for the Silicon Valley tech startup Quora. His political experience includes working in the Office of the House Majority …
Hyper Hill: Promise of Hashtag
Goodbye, DC’s last video store [Movies to Go Since 1981] Goodbye, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Hall [for five years] Festival month is approaching [prepare yourself] Step into the past [with a Google Streetview time machine] Juicy Couture closed [new shortage of pants with script on rear] Popville found …
Google City Experts “Suddenly Spring Social” Party
Google is throwing a big soiree to kick off their D.C. Google City Experts program at the Long View Gallery tonight from 6:30-8:30. Google City Experts is an exclusive program offered in less than 25 cities across 7 countries that relies on local experts like you for the real scoop …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL #MondayNumbers; Congrats, Seahawks!; Facebook turns 10; The Beatles turn 50; CVS puts out its cigarettes; We wish you all the best, Jay Leno; Stress at Sochi — it kind of sucks; How popular is your favorite DC anchor on Twitter?; Super Bowl aftermath; Stupid baby panda falling on its stupid face; Uncle Joe Biden can’t think …
Map of the Entire Internet
A brave cartographer mapped out the entire internet. Yes, Tumblr is in the Hipster sea, Anonymous has their own island, there’s a Stalking Straight (guess what that’s nearby) and Google has a land of indexes. You can’t out-geek this guy. Pretty amusing and worth close observation with above link. h/t …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Is there anything more brutal than a 7am AirTran flight after the Google party?, we’re trading all of our Tuesday & Wednesday night party tickets for anything popping in Charlotte, CCHS > PHS, can Congress pass a resolution to keep Strasburg pitching?, welcome back to our dear old friend, football, …
From the Vault: One Year Ago Google + Was a Thing
Every week FamousDC likes to take a nostalgic moment to look how much we’ve moved forward. Or backward. Yes. Still Confused About Google+? Here’s a solid description of Google+ via Playbook. AWESOME DESCRIPTION OF GOOGLE+, the search giant’s new social-media service (currently invite-only) –MIT Technology Review: “Google has created the opportunity …
Famous Silicon Valley
Rep. Eric Cantor and his wife Diana, accompanied by Majority Leader’s Digital Director Matt Lira, sit down with Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin on their recent trip to Silicon Valley. Photo by Justin Germany
Unfortunate Headline of the Day
Whoever wrote this headline has likely never Googled the word “Santorum.”
Eric Cantor Meets With Sergey Brin (Google, Co-Founder)
According to folks at the meeting, the two were checking out FamousDC.