One day away from Obama’s Inauguration! I’m excited! Watching the coverage on CNN made me think of the people who he couldn’t have done it without. His family, other politicians, campaign volunteers, $$$, me, you, us and web developers? WHAT?

There were so many people involved with Barack Obama’s campaign that it is hard to say who helped him the most with the victory. But one group of people that we all generally give little or no credit to are the web developers and his campaign technology consultants/advisers. I really want to focus on that because as a web developer, we almost never get the credit for making things possible. The credit always goes to the people who plans it out but on our end we think to ourselves, “duh of course you need a website”. Creating a website isn’t a marvel or a great idea by some guy with money, it’s already second nature to us who understand that it is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to mass communication these days. Technology Specialists the brains behind Obama’s victory, no doubt about it.

From the people who designed Obama’s campaign logo to the web 2.0 social network website barackobama.com that web developers setup. They were all crucial parts to his success. This election more than ever really took advantage of the web and it’s users. I could have easily told Barack myself that this is what you need to be President, many of us could. Next time you need help to get a business off the ground or a way to mobilize people, ask a technology expert. They are your go to guy, not the guy who knows a tech guy, skip the middleman!

Anyway, watch the Inauguration LIVE on CNN at http://www.cnn.com/live. Yet another product of our genius!

I went out and purchased a video game today, I haven’t done that since buying Counter Strike for PC years ago. Game Stop had a deal on Bad Company for Xbox 360 for $19.99 New, funny because the used was $26.00. Whatever, corporations have weird business practices, found the game URL on Game Stop and found the closest location to me with the game. Great so I drove there, went into the store and started browsing around. I found the game on the shelf, there were 2 empty boxes for the game for what I thought was for store demo purposes. I went up to the counter and asked for it, they guy just went to the shelf, picked up a box and inserted the game back into it from behind the counter and attempted to put a plastic seal on it.

Wow, did they just try to sell me a opened boxed game, as new? I didn’t care because it was cheap and I was bored in need of a game to play and it was less than the USED game but this is an outrage! You buy a new game, you expect a new game, not an open boxed game that no one has bought. Besides that display box that I now own has been manhandled by who knows how many people! That’s the last time I’ll buy anything from Game Stop ever again! I also purchased a used Xbox 360 from them, only to find the RROD in less than 2 days playing it, and they wouldn’t take it back!