Foursquare has two big announcements: the first is a site feature called Tip Lists. The second is that United States President Barack Obama has joined geosocial network Foursquare, checking in at presidential events as he tours the country. The White House blog says the President’s Foursquare profile will feature tips with “the places President Obama has visited, what he did there, plus historical information and more.” The account already has more than 12,000 followers. Mashable theorizes that this may be a watershed moment for Foursquare as people join the network to follow the President’s travels.

As a kid in the 90s I was very excited that the White House website had an option for people to email the Clintons’ cat Socks. As a voter in 2011, I’m pleased to see the Obama administration keeping up with technology and using social networking as a productive way for voters and the government to interact. Today President Obama tweeted, “The time for putting party first is over. If you want to see a bipartisan #compromise, let Congress know. Call. Email. Tweet. —BO.” A few minutes later the President’s Twitter team added, “You heard the President. So here’s what we’re doing: throughout the day we’ll post the Twitter handles of GOP lawmakers in each state.” The team has already provided the handles of reps from Alabama, Alaska and Arkansas.

Is the US government tech savvy enough to maintain .gov websites without traffic crashing them? Well, that depends on how apathetic the voters are. On Monday, President Obama addressed the nation with instructions for citizens to contact their local congress reps. The servers for some of those reps just couldn’t handle the traffic, including the sites of Ohio’s John Boehner, South Carolina’s Jim DeMint, Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann and New York’s Elliot Engel. Mashable compares the effect to a denial of service attack.

You may remember The Presidents of the United States of America band from the 1990′s.  They had hits such as “Lump,” “Kitty,” and “Peaches.”  I still remember in the music video for “Peaches” there was this awesome ninja scene at the end of it.  People had their songs memorized in my elementary school days.

Dave Dederer, a former singer and guitarist for The Presidents of United States of America (PUSA) is now the VP of Business Development for Melodeo, a software company that develops nuTsie.  nuTsie streams iTunes playlists from PCs, Blackberrys, and Facebook.  One of Melodeo’s latest creation is an iPhone application that distributes PUSA’s music.  Four of PUSA’s albums are available in a $3 application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The application contains the music and exclusive material that is updated from servers.

“IPhone apps are exploding, including for musical artists, but nobody’s done anything like this,” stated Dederer.  “The possibilities around these open app stores, with Apple being the first and foremost, and hopefully RIM, Anroid, and others to follow in terms of size and impace — they’ve radically changed the mobile application, because they’re open.”
PUSA owns the right to all of their own music which makes it easier to distribute at a price that they decide.  In order to listen to PUSA’s music through the iPhone app, a connection is required since it streams for their servers.  Melodeo plans on taking a similar approach for several other bands from another label.