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Social Networking Vital to Obama Campaign

August 28, 2008 1:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

by Eric Pfeiffer, CQ Politics Blogger

At the "Big Tent" outside the DNC perimeter, MyBarackObama administrator and former Facebook employee Chris Hughes held a chat with online activists about the role of social networking in the Obama campaign.

Tags: Chris Hughes, Facebook, McCain, Obama, social networking

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Obama May Have Social Media Advantage

August 25, 2008 2:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The presidential campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain have learned to use the Internet to target potential voters and contributors. But the CEO of Rapleaf, a San Francisco company that analyzes data about people available on the Internet, says in BusinessWeek that Obama has the lead when it comes to using technology to his advantage. He says the Obama campaign is drawing on social networking concepts to build an army of volunteers, each of which is asked to do only a small amount of work.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Business Week, McCain, Obama, social networking

Social Networking May Stimulate Science

July 31, 2008 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A new social network site, Labmeeting, is designed to let scientists easily upload their papers and lab notes to be shared with other members of their research team. TechCrunch tells us the site was started by Harvard graduate Mark Kaganovich with a $500,000 in seed round funding and opened last week to anyone with a college email account. His hope is to spur researchers to talk with each other more.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Harvard, Labmeeting, social networking, TechCrunch