jcarbaugh

It runs automatically, but only on a whitelist of sites. You can edit the list in the extension settings.

It's a loss because Chrome is moving from the HTML5 video must-support category to the Flash fallback category.

Campaign web site software is often poorly written. If you enter a negative number in the amount field you can usually transfer from money FROM the campaign TO your bank account.

Okay, not really. It's probably a refund. Not sure what the exact specifics of the transaction are. We get our data from OpenSecrets.org and they list the same negative contributions on their site.

http://transparencydata.com/filter/#Y3ljbGU9MjAwNiZjb250cmli...

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=garber,+do...

Feel free to start your own event in LA! We'll be hanging out in #transparency on freenode during the hackathon.

Wow, this is great. A web app ABOUT the contest. How meta! Seriously though, we are really honored that Wired would support the contest like this.

And just to clarify, the entries were not limited to GPL: "All software you write has to be licensed under the MIT, New BSD or the GPL family of licenses."

I've been outed! And there goes my plan to covertly push my radical government transparency agenda. Damn you, ALee!

I've only been involved in this for a little under two years and it is amazing to see how quickly the government has become interested in open data. There is still a LONG way to go, but I think we are going to see some great things in the coming years.

This isn't quite getEveryDollarSpent, but check out http://usaspending.gov/. The site tracks all federal contracting dollars spent. It has an API and a fairly detailed set of data.

Rather than one giant government API, we will probably see each agency slowly create more meaningful ways to get at their data. I expect there to be some exciting open data initiatives from the Obama administration.

Yeah, this is real. We put Hiro up as a joke, but I'll take him down now.