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Hitwise reports that Fred Thompson’s campaign www.fred08.com continues to lead other candidates in web traffic ( 34.73% market share) with web darlings Barack Obama ( 13.49%) and Ron Paul ( 12.88%) coming in second and third for the week ending September 8, 2007. It will be interesting to see if Fred Thompson’s recent announcement is [...]

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Nielsen/NetRatings is reporting that Barack Obama’s website attracted the most unique visitors in the month of July compared to any of the other presidential candidates at 717,000. Hillary Clinton’s site led with the longest time per visitor with 8:17. The top republican candidates in those two categories were Fred Thompson, who was undeclared in July, [...]

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And here I thought that it was just a geek like me who would be interested in stuff like this, but the Boston Globe made SEM by presidential candidates front page news! Wired and a few blogs had already covered this issue, but I am glad that the Globe considers this front page news. While [...]

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Mitt Romney’s campaign is soliciting user generated ads using Jumpcut the online video editing site. There are plenty of elements to work with in putting together a 30 or 60 second campaign ad. The winning entry will be run at some point I suppose. With all of the user generated campaign ads out there this [...]

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The following is an entry that I wrote a couple of months ago for a blog that I am no longer contributing to. It relates to some of the political issues that I wrote about the other day so I am including it here. A month or two ago I was asked about the use [...]

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Back on the issue of politics and Web 2.0, Global Market Insite, Inc. released a poll the other day on the impact of social networks on political campaigns. According to this poll of 2130 consumers between the ages of 14, while only 17% of people have viewed candidates profiles, 53% of visitors felt more likely [...]

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Richard MacManus is posting that Web 2.0 favors democrats based on the number of friends that Democrats have versus the number of friends that Republicans have. That and a digg profile for Obama. This seems like a pretty flimsy argument to me. If you assume that Facebook and MySpace have a younger population than the [...]

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