The presidential election of 2008 has been memorable for many reasons, among them were new apps for tech.

The Obama campaign used text messaging to announce the VP choice. Social networking, such as with Facebook, helped recruit, organize and inform the troops. Huffington Post recruited citizen reporters to cover the campaign in new ways. The Obama Girl's crush was a big hit on YouTube.

And Skype was right at the forefront as the technology was used to reach out to voters, from Silicon Valley as well as Europe.

Obama's Silicon Valley crew used Skype early on to reach out to Republican voters in Iowa in January and at the end was using Skype to make 10,000 calls a day to encourage voters to come out for the Nov. 4th Election Day.

Skype's Jennifer Caukin gives her take on this use of Skype on the main blog. Here's a video showing Roger Hu and his crew putting Skype to work to rock the vote.

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