Add As Friend: Vivek Kundra, Barack Obama's e-Czar of e-Technology

The White House may be building its fancy websites with an Atari, but that won't stop wired president BlackBerry Obama from activating America's first-ever federal tech czar. Let's take a look at Washington, DC chief technology officer Vivek Kundra's profile, shall we?

In just 19 months with the District, Mr. Kundra has moved to post city contracts on YouTube and to make Twitter use common in his office and others. He hopes to allow drivers to pay parking tickets or renew their driver’s licenses on Facebook.

His office’s Web site offers a “Digital Public Square” with links to information on everything from crime to parking to tourism. It provides a map of free wi-fi hot spots, a public library finder, leaf-collection schedules; even a widget to view live snow-plow progress.

Yep, those paragraphs contain all the hot, trendy words I need to confirm that this fellow is a "killer app." LOL! I can only assume that Vivek Kundra's first project will be a federal bailout program for Friendster, because seriously, whatever happened to that thing?

ps. Yes, I realize there's no picture of Vivek Kundra on this post (trust me, he looks like an e-czar). Indeed, our blog is still a bit effed. Um, does anyone have Vivek Kundra's phone number?