As tax time approaches, you've probably been asking yourself: Can I track the status of my refund on my smartphone? Well, the answer is, you betcha! Get yourself on over to the App Store or the Android Market, and download the IRS' slammin' new app, IRS2Go!OK, maybe you haven't been asking yourself that. It's true that everything in the world need not be turned into a mobile app – there are some things that can wait until you get home or to the office to access. But it's good to see the tax man making efforts to be user friendly. Now if they can do something about their ghastly web site, they'd really be getting somewhere.
As you may know, the Obama administration has been making serious efforts to web-ify as much of the federal government as possible, with things like Recovery.gov, Data.gov, and HealthCare.gov. It makes one wonder what the state of the government's technology efforts would be had John McCain – who in 2008 said, "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon" – been elected president.
-- Paul Waldman
