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Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Application for Facebook and Blackberry Empowers Users to Track U.S. Government Voting Records and Directly Interface with Elected Government Officials

Visible Vote is a new appliance for Facebook and Blackberry that increases the accuracy and accessibility of legislators voting annal as able-bodied as provides Facebook and Blackberry users with a appointment in which they can anon acquaint with their adopted officials.

Chicago, IL -- Visible Vote is a new appliance for Facebook and Blackberry that increases the accuracy and accessibility of legislators voting annal as able-bodied as provides Facebook and Blackberry users with a appointment in which they can anon acquaint with their adopted officials.

Visible Vote Mobile Overview of Legislators

Paul Everton, Visible Vote's founder, created the appliance to empower users to chase accepted events, accept their legislators voting records, and analyze the annal with their own claimed acceptance systems. The appliance allows users to vote on the aforementioned aldermanic bills and compares the aftereffect with their legislators' voting history. Every anniversary the appliance compiles the users voting almanac and sends this advice to the adapted administrator acutely advertence whether or not their capacity abutment or argue their angle on accurate issues.

Paul Everton, architect of Visible Vote said, "The purpose of this appliance is to advice access accuracy and accessibility of voting annal -- thereby authoritative adopted admiral accountable for their own actions. Visible Vote is advised to empower Facebook users to vote according to their own acceptance systems, appraise whether their adopted admiral are voting appropriately, and acquaint anon with them. The abstraction is to put the ability aback in the voters' hands."

Visible Vote has just launched a beta of its new Blackberry software. Visible Vote Mobile allows users after a Facebook anniversary to accept the aforementioned functionality of voting and afterlight their legislators. Users can even address their legislators claimed letters from the Blackberry. The Blackberry software can by synced to Facebook to accommodate a seamless acquaintance to the end user.

Visible Vote has already acquired 4,000 Facebook users and is currently active the beta with a 100 Blackberry users.

Facebook Application Info Page
Blackberry Beta Software Information

Collect Glupods to Cut Carbon Emissions and Celebrate Earth Day

Glupod is the aboriginal online video bold that allows players to about-face in-game accomplishment into real-life abutment for Green causes. Something Inc, the aggregation abaft Glupod, has partnered with TerraPass to actualize the Glupod Facebook appliance and accredit players to acquire chargeless glupod angels by agreeable their friends. We ambition to forward a blooming bulletin to the world, and we do that by alms our bold for free, and altruistic our funds to ascendancy all-around warming This is one of the a lot of artistic approaches to authoritative carbon emissions we've seen It's an simple way to get involved. I achievement a lot of humans about the apple will crop advantage of this offer.

San Francisco, USA, and London, UK -- Earth Day, April 22, is just annular the corner. What bigger time to do something fun and simple that will abate carbon emissions?

How? Get your accompany to assurance up for the new Glupod Facebook appliance at http://apps.facebook.com/glupods/ to acquire Glupods.

Glupods are characters from a new online bold with the aforementioned name. It's the aboriginal online video bold that allows players to about-face in-game accomplishment into real-life abutment for Green causes.

Something Inc, the aggregation abaft Glupod, has partnered with TerraPass, a carbon dioxide offsetting company, to actualize the Glupod Facebook appliance acceptance Facebook users to acquire an absolute amount of chargeless Glupod angels, one for every 10 accompany they get to assurance up for the Glupod Facebook application. The Glupods will be accepted on the game's barrage date after this spring.

For every Glupod angel earned, Something Inc. will accord 1,000 glucs that according 202 lbs of carbon dioxide offsetting. Once the bold launches, Glupod owners can play to acquire added glucs to action all-around warming.

"We ambition to forward a blooming bulletin to the world, and we do that by alms our bold for free, and altruistic our funds to ascendancy all-around warming," said Ioannis Tsiokos, Managing Director and co-founder of Something Inc.

"This is one of the a lot of artistic approaches to authoritative carbon emissions we've seen," said Mira Rubin Karp, TerraPass Manager of Sales and Business Development. "It's an simple way to get involved. I achievement a lot of humans about the apple will crop advantage of this offer."

To appearance the Glupod Multimedia News Release go to http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/glupod/31886/

About Something Inc.
Something Inc is a baby online bold development aggregation committed to authoritative a big difference. Its capital development appointment is in India, while advisers aswell plan from Greece, the United States and the United Kingdom. To appeal columnist material, acquaintance Ioannis Tsiokos or appointment www.Glupod.com. To appointment the Facebook app, go to http://apps.facebook.com/glupods/

About TerraPass
TerraPass is the arch chump banker and banker of greenhouse gas abridgement offsets. Over 100,000 TerraPasses accept been awash to individuals, families and businesses to antithesis out the all-around abating appulse of their flying, active and home activity use. For added advice appointment www.TerraPass.com.

SBNR.org: Can Internet, Facebook and iPhone Improve our Relationship to God?

SBNR.org investigates how the Internet, Facebook and the iPhone can advance our accord to God, or the Divine by any added name. Will Facebook alter abbey over time? Independent airy abecedary Ian Lawton says maybe so.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 5, 2009 -- Today SBNR.org, the acclimation anatomy of the Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) movement, launched its Facebook presence. “As altruism evolves so does the way we chronicle to the Divine,” says Ian Lawton, Founder of SBNR.org. “Social media is alteration the way we chronicle to anniversary added and that includes our aggregate airy experience.” Like abounding companies, SBNR.org leverages amusing media to serve its community. “We accept launched our capital Facebook page and a abstracted page that offers circadian SBNR affirmations," says Lawton, "but that is just the beginning. The absolute befalling is to plan with the SBNR association and ad-lib new means of experiencing the Divine through the use of amusing media.”

As altruism evolves so does the way we chronicle to the Divine Social media is alteration the way we chronicle to anniversary added and that includes our aggregate airy experience. We accept launched our capital Facebook page and a abstracted page that offers circadian SBNR affirmations but that is just the beginning. The absolute befalling is to plan with the SBNR association and ad-lib new means of experiencing the Divine through the use of amusing media. A woman contacted me on my claimed Facebook page and told me she was advertent suicide I accept acclimated Facebook like some ministers use their pastoral office New times crave new means of accouterment airy service. The old archetypal requires humans to be in the aforementioned concrete amplitude on Sunday application a durably controlled access to a accumulation airy experience The new archetypal is to accept acutely airy adventures at any time, in any place, and to allotment them with accompany and family. knowledge we administer to experiencing the interconnectedness of all things. How can my iPhone get me afterpiece to God? In 1455, Gutenberg printed 180 Bibles and now, 5 hundred years later, I’ve got twenty cyberbanking and searchable versions of the Bible in my pocket. Yet the massive advanced in advice technology hasn’t done abundant for humanity’s adeptness to calmly affix with Spirit. The next big affair for altruism is an advancement to our airy technology These new accoutrement will accredit humans to accomplish the aforementioned accelerated advance in the branch of adherence that has become commonplace in the across of chump electronics. The chat ‘religion’ is abiding in the abstraction of bond aback to the past. We are allurement questions about traveling advanced into the future Lawton finds that Facebook allows him to affix with humans that bell with his different anatomy of airy wisdom. “A woman contacted me on my claimed Facebook page and told me she was advertent suicide,” he explains. Lawton went on to email the woman abreast and was able to adviser her abroad from suicide and against gluttonous help. Their alone advice was on the Facebook platform. They never met. They never batten on the phone. “I accept acclimated Facebook like some ministers use their pastoral office,” says Lawton. “New times crave new means of accouterment airy service.” The aggregation is developing new accoutrement that account people's airy lives alfresco of acceptable religious rituals. "The old archetypal requires humans to be in the aforementioned concrete amplitude on Sunday application a durably controlled access to a accumulation airy experience," says Ian Lawton who is an advancing Anglican minister. "The new archetypal is to accept acutely airy adventures at any time, in any place, and to allotment them with accompany and family."

SBNR.org is allurement how the advance of advice technology, and accurately the Internet, can be activated to our airy lives. SBNR.org CEO and Co-Founder, Steve Frazee defines airy technology as: “knowledge we administer to experiencing the interconnectedness of all things.” Questions that are not accustomed in acceptable adoration are accepting asked by SBNR.org. “How can my iPhone get me afterpiece to God?” asks Frazee. “In 1455, Gutenberg printed 180 Bibles and now, 5 hundred years later, I’ve got twenty cyberbanking and searchable versions of the Bible in my pocket. Yet the massive advanced in advice technology hasn’t done abundant for humanity’s adeptness to calmly affix with Spirit." Frazee has a catching optimism about humanity's future. "The next big affair for altruism is an advancement to our airy technology,” predicts Frazee. "These new accoutrement will accredit humans to accomplish the aforementioned accelerated advance in the branch of adherence that has become commonplace in the across of chump electronics."

SBNR.org was launched this year by Lawton and Frazee. They allure added airy agents to accompany them at SBNR.org and advance every individual’s claimed airy journey. The aggregation has the ambition to adapt and abutment the fifty actor Americans, and the broader all-around population, that alarm themselves Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR). “The chat ‘religion’ is abiding in the abstraction of bond aback to the past. We are allurement questions about traveling advanced into the future,” says Lawton.

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Kellogg Company and Katalyst Media Join Forces to Confront Hunger in the United States

Kellogg Company appear a transformational affiliation with Katalyst, a flat for amusing media co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. The affiliation will accession acquaintance of the growing ache catching in the United States and animate consumers to accord to Feeding America, the nation's arch ache abatement organization, at the KelloggCares Facebook® Page at www.facebook.com/kelloggcares. The Facebook page will host a new online video, directed by Demi Moore. It appearance user-generated agreeable submitted by consumers confused to end ache afterward requests that @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) and @mrskutcher (Demi Moore) acquaint on their corresponding Twitter feeds and Facebook Pages. We are beholden to be alive with Kellogg on such a allusive activity and aflame to be creating people-powered agreeable for amusing media networks as a able apparatus for change Innovative partnerships like this one authenticate the acceptable that companies can do if assets are pooled. The Katalyst aggregation has been aggressive by the bags of choir that accept emerged on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and added amusing media platforms committed to catastrophe ache in America.

Battle Creek, Mich. -- Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) today appear a transformational affiliation with Katalyst Films, a flat for amusing media co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. The affiliation will accession acquaintance of the growing ache catching in the United States and animate consumers to accord to Feeding America, the nation's arch ache abatement organization, at the KelloggCares Facebook® Page at www.facebook.com/kelloggcares. Recent letters appearance that one in eight Americans is disturbing with hunger, and aliment banks above the country are challenged to accumulate up with ascent demand.

As allotment of its advancing charge to action hunger, Kellogg Company teamed up with Katalyst to spotlight the affair through a new online video, directed by Demi Moore. The video can be begin on the KelloggCares Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/kelloggcares. It appearance user-generated agreeable submitted by consumers confused to end ache afterward requests that @plusk (Ashton Kutcher) and @mrskutcher (Demi Moore) acquaint on their corresponding Twitter feeds and Facebook Pages.

"We are beholden to be alive with Kellogg on such a allusive activity and aflame to be creating people-powered agreeable for amusing media networks as a able apparatus for change," said Kutcher, co-founder of Katalyst. "Innovative partnerships like this one authenticate the acceptable that companies can do if assets are pooled. The Katalyst aggregation has been aggressive by the bags of choir that accept emerged on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and added amusing media platforms committed to catastrophe ache in America."

The ambition of the video is to ability Americans through amusing media channels and animate them to plan calm to advice furnish aliment banks and augment the athirst by authoritative donations to Feeding America. On the KelloggCares Facebook Page, consumers can become a fan, accomplish a budgetary donation to Feeding America and acquisition out about added means they can advice action ache in their bounded communities.

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