Money is the way (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
I have always considered Chris Hughes at the Financial Times a rational man, but check this: 'No more easy money! Evil spirits have taken all our money! Japanese drums! Oh! The end is nigh! O Jesus H. Christ, come and save me! The death of banking! Evil spirits, sick angels, fire from hell, Jack Pickles smiling at me, smiling in nightmares that last the whole night! I must repent....
The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Change.gov. My sources in Chicago just leaked to me an internal memo from Obama's tech adviser Chris Hughes to the campaign's web development team: Hi guys, thanks for getting onboard with this. I know you are swamped just keeping up with our tech needs for my.barackobama.com , our MySpace page , Facebook page , Twitter stream , Second Life virtual headquarters , iPhone app , video...
Slaw (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... are proving futile. The Obama campaign realized the potential of social media when they hired Chris Hughes , formerly of Facebook. This was the first election in some time with a higher youth turnout, and over 60% of them voted for Obama. Wood explained what he did on Facebook, searching for his firm’s name. They chose not to create a group and allowed one to organically develop by...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... Sarah Parish, Angela Griffin and Lisa Faulkner.Holden, who will tie the knot with record producer Chris Hughes in December, has been wed once before to TV presenter Les Dennis.
The Sun (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The beauty, who marries record producer fiance Chris Hughes next month, will have her girls’ night out on Saturday in sleepy Burnham Market in Norfolk where she has a cottage.
Every Day is Election Day (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... of perhaps the most vital doner to Obama’s campaign; a 24 year-old, average-looking guy named Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the man driving Obama’s unparalleled use of social media throughout his campaign. As Obama’s self-styled ‘Online Organisational Guru’, Hughes has helped the President-Elect build an online movement of supporters worldwide, with an incredible...
Chris Pirillo (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Chris Hughes writes from the UK: Alright, I’m a journalism student in Britain right now, and I have just started my dissertation on blogging, titled ‘are bloggers journalists’ obviously I went through Google to find out peoples opinions and your Google video came up. (...)
*michael parekh on IT* (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
DIRECT LINEBy now most students of the recent Presidential Election know that one of the important catalysts in the Obama victory was his campaign's use of the internet and mobile phone technologies. Specifically, the campaign early on tapped some of the key folks in Silicon Valley like Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, to plan and implement it's strategy online, not just in the...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
By Chris Hughes Over the past 21 months, millions of individuals have used My.BarackObama to organize their local communities on behalf of Barack Obama. The scale and size of this community and its work is unprecedented. Individuals in all 50...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has told The Mirror how she would love another baby and wants to start trying next year. Amanda, 37, and fiance Chris Hughes have one daughter called Lexie, who will turn three in January. She said, “We’ll definitely start trying next year. It feels like the right time. But I [...]
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
As regulators put pressure on banks and appetite for risk diminishes, a big increase in the cost of doing business is driving consolidation in the City of London, writes Chris Hughes
Business Economics (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
China After the Olympics Date: Tuesday 2 December 2008 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers : Professor Chris Hughes, Professor Athar Hussain, Martin Jacques, Professor Chen Jian, Mark Leonard Chair: Professor Arne Westad Whether we think sport and politics should or should not be mixed, it is clear that in the case of the Beijing Olympics the two have never been more...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008 Obama’s use of online social networking to raise money, organize supporters and solicit ideas for his campaign - an effort organized by Chris Hughes, a 24-year-old co-founder of Facebook in Palo Alto - was unprecedented in Source: www.sfgate.com
garykamen / blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
It’s no secret that President elect Barack Obama was the more tech-savvy of the two candidates. He ran a very technology-driven campaign, launching his own social network that attracted over 1.5 million participants (built by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes), and built up a Facebook profile to over 2.7 million supporters. In the end, he was [...]
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Lots of people are wondering what will happen to the Obama campaigns huge network of online supporters and on-the-ground organizers, and . But so far there's little hard information. Yesterday, Chris Hughes, one of the Obama new media team's key staffers, posted a short note on his blog at myBO , that began to offer some answers...
