In many ways, this election was a testament to the impact of the information technology. We are in a kind of "second age" of information technology--it isn't maturing, it has matured.

Social-media apps like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, realtime video chat, broadband connections, web-2.0 mashups, and rich community websites (e.g. barackobama.com) have come together in an unprecedented way to bear witness to history in the making.

I take home a couple of lessons from this.