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Practically everyone [at the White House] has an iPad
- icefox 16y agoThe only interesting thing I could think of would be to ponder what apps would be extremely useful for the white house to have.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoNews app that takes the latest world news, uses crowdsourcing/mechanical turking to generate coherent paragraph abstracts of news events, then spit back out in a beautiful layout. Much like the NPR app but summarizing all world news (normalized into one language, of course).
- ugh 16y agoThey probably have their own sources for news and I guess they won’t get around looking at the real deal when they want to know how something is reported. They could probably do all kind of cool stuff if the wrote their own apps. I have, however, a hard time believing that will ever happen (after all the problems with getting the President a Blackberry). Security concerns might also be the reason why entertainment dominates in the article.
- philwelch 16y agoAs I recall, the CIA has an entire office for that. They already aggregate all world news (news is considered "open source" intelligence, and they find out more than you'd expect from it) so rest assured there are dozens if not hundreds of intelligence analysts every day who filter all the world news up the chain up to the guy who compiles the president's daily intelligence report. EDIT: Ha, it gets better! They even have their own classified wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia
- waterlesscloud 16y agoHmm. Now see, here is where a list of ipad user's email addresses might be useful.
- BenWalker 16y agoI wonder who is the "mayor" of the White House?