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Obama Homepage: Before and After

The Barack Obama campaign has been rolling out new features on its website at an impressive clip. A campaign timeline. Headquarters pages for each of the early primary states. A mobile program. Good stuff and they are clearly doing a wonderful job online.

But in the process of launching this stuff,...

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Making Profiles Portable

I’m someone that is eager to try out the latest Web 2.0 tools, be it Twitter, Powcne, Jaiku, etc. One of my frustrations is that I have to essentially start over every time I create an account on one of these things. I have to enter the same profile information over and over,...

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MSNBC Launches Interactive Game

In a link post a few days back, I briefly mentioned MSNBC’s new interactive news game, Newsbreaker. The game was given a positive review by the excellent Influential Marketing Blog. In the link post, I called it pointless and left it at that. I wanted to expand a little and offer two additional thoughts:

(1) Any promotion you launch should be consistent with your brand....

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Link Roundup 6/29/2007

Facebook is the New AOL

Jason Kottke expresses the concern a growing number of people are having about Facebook:

“As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools,...

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The Fight Against Comment Spam

Our blog has run off WordPress for awhile now and for the most part we’ve been pretty free of comment and trackback spam. The Akismet plugin combined with some manual intervention on occasion has usually been all that was needed to keep our comments area relatively clean. Akismet has blocked 300,000 spam comments since we started using it....

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