Campaign 2010 Open Seats

Now that it’s officially an election year, we have decided to add a feature to Congress in Your Pocket that will help you follow the most competitive races for Congress. To see the open seats, and the reasons why they’re open (retirements, running for other offices), please tap on the Search button. Remember, you can search for anything in the application’s database. In this case, please type in “open seat in 2010″. This will pull up the list which you can sort by name or state.

For now, CongressPro users can do this since we have modified the database. Congress and Congress+ users will have this “feature” when we submit an update to Apple soon. We are thinking of adding this feature to the “More” section in a future update as a separate tab just in case you’d like to have it there on your toolbar. Let us know what you think.

Pennsylvania in Your Pocket

Up next, the Keystone State!  We are proud to welcome Tom Nissley, who is hard at work constructing the database for the application.  Tom is a retired principal, a part-time life historian, and now in his free time, a partner.  The application page for Pennsylvania is located here.  Remember, if you want to help with an app for your state, please send us an email.

A New Look

When we launched Congress in Your Pocket we felt that it would be an extension of our core business, which is gathering and providing information to our clients in an interesting and compelling way.  So we went with our main website’s look and feel.  Over a year later, it looks miscast so we have redesigned the site to look more independent, streamlined, and user-friendly.  We also relaunched our blog with WordPress with more of a focus on the applications themselves and not other parts of our business. We hope you like it.