http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:15:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/white-house-drops-youtube-clips-due-to-privacy-issues.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:27:14 +0000 The Obama-YouTube love affair is at its end…at least in its official role on whitehouse.gov.  The Obama administration recently bailed on its embeddable YouTube videos and chose clips powered by Akamai, a web service hosted on local servers rather than those of Google.  The administration cited concerns over privacy voiced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Digital Democracy. Google tracks visitors with long term cookies through YouTube and because Obama’s Weekly Address is an official government function, the underlying technology should be hosted and controlled by government servers.  After running a campaign driven by internet media andRead more...]]>