Back in March, we wrote about how the White House didn’t want YouTube to “cookie” visitors that were watching the videos that appear on the official Whitehouse.gov channel and website.  YouTube usually does this automatically with all visitors.
To satisfy the White House, YouTube added an option to set cookies in a sort of “delayed mode,” [...]

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“What matters to you and your families and what people here in Washington are focused on are not always the same.  This isn’t about me, it’s about you. It’s about the families whose letters I read every single day, and, for the American people, what’s going on is not a game.”
Thus began President Barack Obama’s [...]

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The annual White House Easter Egg Roll 2009 will be held on April 13, and this year for the first time, you can get tickets online.
You can get tickets online for the White House Easter Egg Roll 2009 beginning Thursday, March 26.  Previously, the only way to get tickets was by waiting in a [...]

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The White House has quietly ditched YouTube as its provider-of-choice for embedded videos on President Obama’s official website.
With the release of this week’s video address, the White House has started using a Flash-enabled video player based on the Akamai network.
The White House made the move in response to concerns voiced by privacy advocates over YouTube’s [...]

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