What Did the Xbox Ever Do to Obama? Xbox helped President Barrack Obama on his US election campaign but now he’s ditching the Xbox. President Obama has been quoted as saying “That means putting away the X-Box.”, when he stressed the importance of parenting and responsibility in the recent NAACP 100th anniversary. Check out the video after jump.

Pres. Obama Address to NAACP Video

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The 2008 presidential campaign of Barrack Obama has been dubbed one of the successful political strategy of this information age. No election mediums were spared during his campaign as he was able to utilize the xbox360 console. He took advantage of the in-game advertising (IGA) by putting up his electronic billboard ads to various Xbox360 titles such as Burnout Paradise. Within this day (Saturday July 11th, starting at 8am EST), President Obama is gearing up to give a historic address in Ghana, Africa and he wants to make sure his voice will be heard by everybody. Now, the two known online social networking games, the Second Life and Metaplace, will simultaneously broadcast live his video feed to the actual game which they would expect massive interaction and debates within the avatars in the virtual world.

According to USPublicDiplomacy.com blog:

Additionally, the White House team for new media has created multiple platforms to encourage responses. These include text messaging with unique country codes, a Twitter feed (#obamaghana), and Facebook online chat for the event. Each of these venues promotes citizen participation in shared public spaces.

In short, these initiatives demonstrate the very best potential for new technology to facilitate public diplomacy for dialogue and citizen engagement. It allows Obama to answer tough policy questions in ways that encourage maximum participation while strategically influencing the general African population. No other U.S. Administration has thus far been either willing or able to create such an open public network.

And despite this “new media” push, there continues to be an emphasis on even more ubiquitous means of communication such as radio to acknowledge those who are on the other side of the digital divide.

Source: http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com

Update: President Obama’s address in Ghana simulcast in Second Life Video

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Do you still remember the Tamagochi handheld digital pet that millions of people got hooked on it sometime on 1996. Even the parents  at that time were very upset about the Tamagochi hype because the minds of their kids were so occupied at all times with the conditions of their virtual pet –as it can get starve, sick, and even die. Anyway last June 18, the Nintendo released  a new DS game called “Tomodachi”, which simply means friend connection. Its gameplay is like a crossover of Tamagochi and The Sims game, in which one of the highlight features is that they can import their Mii avatars from Nintendo Wii console to their Nintendo DS portable. So they can manage or play their Mii-based digital self  everywhere any time and it can even interact live with other Mii characters from other co-Tomodachi fans via wifi internet connection. Check out how the Tomodachi is selling like hotcakes in Japan after the jump.

According to Media Create, the Tomadachi sales report is off to a flying start in Japan with 102,000 sold. There is no release date announced for North America yet.

Below is the Japanese sales charts for the week ended June 21, 2009, courtesy of Gamasutra.com:

By the way, I’m just wondering if their Mii-self could possibly meet the fate of death just like the Tamagochi? But do you know there’s bizarre cemetery in Japan where you can literally bury the actual Tamagochi hardware unit.

Tomadachi TV Commercial Video

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