Tagged Tanakh CTO wins Golden Dot Award for Best Mash-Up

Earlier this week, the Tagged Tanakh’s Chief Technical Officer Sze Wong, walked away with a Golden Dot Award for his work on the Twitter Vote Report Project. Given away at the 2009 Politics Online Conference, the Golden Dot Awards honor individuals or organizations whose online initiatives influence the political sphere in significant ways.

Sze worked with over twenty other contributors to create the Twitter Vote Report, a mash-up that tracked voter responses during the 2008 presidential election. Twitter Vote Report captured on-the-ground reports from polling stations, recounting long lines or malfunctioning voter machines to capture the varied experiences of American voters. Talk about sentiment analysis?! As Sze describes in his personal blog, “In plain English, it’s using social network technology to allow the public to document political events.”

In addition to his work with the Tagged Tanakh and FlipSide5 (creators of one of the most addictive iPhone games out there), Sze still manages to find the time to work on important and innovative projects like the Twitter Vote Report. Congratulations to Sze for supporting democracy through information technologies that build community and transparency).

I hope that your track record for success bodes well for the Tagged Tanakh.

Check out this video about Twitter Vote Report to learn more about the project: