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- Presidential Campaign 2008: Rudy Giuliani 'In to win' too?
- While Democrat Barack Obama made a formal and rousing declaration to supporters in Illinois of his determination to do all in his power to become the next president of the United States today (see Barack TV vs. Hillary TV: Obama ‘08 announces saying ‘the campaign is about you’), Republican Rudolph...
- Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Rudy, Digital Markets, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
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- Twittering through Campaign 2008
- Is this the Twitter campaign? The Times reports that both reporters and politicians are embracing Twitter as a way to get rapid fire messages to audiences. On the politician side, we've known this for quite a while. Internet-heavy candidates like John Edwards and Ron Paul have been twittering since...
- Tags: Problem, Freedom, Twitter, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Can open source cut campaign costs?
- Having followed computing and politics since 1996 I have long been fascinated with whether scaled Internet-based computing can, in fact, cut the cost of campaigning. This year represents the best test yet of that proposition. Every Presidential candidate has a Web site. Most run Linux. By...
- Tags: Republican, Amazon.com Inc., Candidate, Linux, Open Source, Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Googlers stump in N.H. for Paul
- Googlers stump in N.H. for Paulwondering if google hires him backIf you have to put bread on the table you won't leave google for a political campaign with slim chances.So far I know that Paul is the only republican against the war, but I'm wondering what's his position on offshoring,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul, Googlers
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Iowa Electronic Markets pick Clinton, Romney
- If Barack Obama lands a No. 1 finish in the Iowa caucuses tonight, it will be a stunning political upset, but the odds are almost 3-1 that the Democratic nominee will be Hillary Clinton. An even greater upset would be Iowans' selection of Mike Huckabee as the candidate. But ...
- Tags: Candidate, Romney, IEM 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Markets, Investment, Spam, Finance, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Rudy's brilliant new idea: a virtual border fence
- Here we go - another tech-clueless politician believes technology will provide a panacea for difficult problems. Rudy Giuiliani says he wants to build a virtual fence to monitor the whole - or at least much of the - US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The...
- Tags: Software, Associated Press, Fence, Border, Rudy, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Social Networks: Giuliani's family network exposes inherent weakness
- I don't personally care whether Rudy Giuliani's daughter had joined the One Million Strong for Obama group on Facebook, because it doesn't constitute an endorsement in the sense that the press has asserted. Friending someone isn't the same as saying you want them to be your president. And candidates' sons...
- Tags: Social Networking, President, Network, Candidate, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Giuliani's daughter a member of Obama's Facebook group
- Those social networks just keep creating problems for politicians. In the latest twist, Republican Rudy Guliani's 17-year-old daughter Caroline is a member of Barack Obama's Facebook group, Slate reports.Or at least she was until Slate emailed her about it. She has since removed herself from that group.In what may be...
- Tags: Facebook, Giuliani, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Republicans shy away from YouTube debate
- Are the Republicans running scared of YouTube? So it seems. The Washington Post reported last week that only two candidates â€" John McCain and Ron Paul â€" have agreed to participate in the CNN/YouTube debate, in which candidates respond to user-taped questions.Although many candidates post videos to YouTube, it seems...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Inventor of political microtargeting applies his craft for Romney
- Alex Gage is the guy who invented microtargeted election campaigning, the trend that sealed Karl Rove's reputation as political wunderkind. Using the wealth of personal data on Americans that's available for a price, the strategy was to use databases to identify Republican voters on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood, even home-by-home basis. In...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Most Presidential candidates use open source
- Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted.(Why is this fellow here? All will be revealed soon, grasshopper.)Karr's methodology was not rocket science. He used Netcraft. You can do it,...
- Tags: politics, Microsoft, mass market, management, Linux Server OS, Linux, Internet, Implementations, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Dell vs. NY Attorney General: What's the risk?
- Dell vs. NY Attorney General: What's the risk?Most of the claims against...Grasso were dismissed because the Court felt that the NYS Attorney General did not have jurisdiction, not for lack of merit.Wall Street firms paid over $1 Billion in fines as a result of Spitzer's suits. While that may...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber
- Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while actively avoiding contrary information. The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...
- Tags: Unanswered questions, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Giuliani vs. McCain? It's debatable
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Eight Democrats lock horns online: So what? last Thursday. Tonight, ten Republicans get their chance.The first Republican debate in of the 2008 presidential race is set for 8pm EST. As with the Democrat’s show, the...
- Tags: Presidential Race, Politics, Political Campaign, John McCain
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- For sale: Giuliani, Obama, Dodd
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Want to show your support for your favorite presidential candidate, but dont have the big political bucks for a donation? How about flying a Rudy Giuliani pennant instead, or sporting a green for the enviornment...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...
- Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Open source becomes political wedge issue
- Last year, in Massachusetts, we saw open source being used as a political football. But the underlying issue in that case was technological, the states adoption of ODF as a standard format.Now, in England, were again seeing open source being used by politicians. This time, however, its entirely on behalf...
- Tags: open source, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race
- Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- YouTube: Presidential candidates cool in 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008
- Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Did you ever want an online place where you could go to watch all the slick presidential campaign videos produced by the candidates?YouTube to the rescue: A “You Choose ‘08” channel...
- Tags: Social Software, President Clinton, John Edwards, Presidential Race, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Politics, User Generated Politics, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- YouTube: Must see TV? 'User Generated Politics' presidential campaign 2008
- On January 23, I announced: Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.In Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?, the first story in my continuing coverage of what I have dubbed “User Generated Politics,” I analyzed how Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign headquarters...
- Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Legal, Local, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Television, TV, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Video, Wikipedia, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
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