Comments on: MyBarackObama: Who Built This?

By: Maymuncuk.org

Maymuncuk.org — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:49:00 +0000

It is blue state digital.

But my site maymuncuk.org is superior than that site

By: James Pederson

James Pederson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:19:23 +0000

The site was (as previously stated) created by BlueStateDigital and the content management system they most often use is Expression Engine 2.0 (which is the system used to implement the Obama site).

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By: Choi Young

Choi Young — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:50:10 +0000

hey dear drupal is powerfull than all other who can create. obama’s site is well visual designed. but it has no technology. The best web sites will be created in drupal and in adobe flex & php.

By: Lee Lawrence

Lee Lawrence — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:11:06 +0000

It was created by “Blue State Digital”. The latest issue of MIT’s Technology Review has information regarding this site.

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By: Mike Trotzke

Mike Trotzke — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:53:25 +0000

I’m not sure which Mike the last @Mike comment was directed towards. I posted a while back.

I was never trying to say that managing traffic is easy. I don’t care what type of software it is, SN or not, load is hard to mange.

Great article on this topic about MySpace growing pains:

http://www.cioi...,2084842,00.asp

My complain is about the automatic assumption that an extended beta is a prerequisite for something to work well. I think the whole concept has become overused. If you’re expecting your web based app to eventually reach this magical point where it’s perfect and can go out of “Public Beta”… good luck.

By: been there. done that.

been there. done that. — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:57:01 +0000

@Mike,

Back up what you’re claiming. Have you BUILT a social network? How many registered and active users did it have? How many concurrent requests per second did it handle? How many concurrent database transactions per second were sustained at peak, and what was the performance like?

Until you put up some data, you’re full of sh!t. It may be easy to conceptualize YASN and it is in fact fairly straightforward to graft a good UI (not that developing a good UI is itself easy) on top of a bunch of RAD scaffolding without months and months of development and testing, HOWEVER, actually launching and growing a successful SN is anything but easy.

Yes, there are packages based on OS projects out there that provide solid building blocks, but they — necessarily — have inherent functional limitations that must be dealt with in the course of growth.

By: Dave Harding

Dave Harding — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:47:19 +0000

It’s BlueState Digital. The CMS of this part of the site is done in Textpattern.

I know because we use the same system at ProgressOhio.org

By: Neil Kelty

Neil Kelty — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:08 +0000

To #11: 2010 is the year he’ll be up for Senate re-election – I assume they either don’t care to register a new corp. or just haven’t updated.

By: Chrissie Brodigan

Chrissie Brodigan — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:54:16 +0000

The person behind Obama’s site is the former IT director for Howard Dean’s campaign. If you contact Garrett Graff at ggraff@washingtonian.com he can help you get in touch with him.

By: Tony Angelo

Tony Angelo — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:10:52 +0000

Someone else mentioned that it seems to be the same software that is running on democrats.org. Indeed it is. The question that comes to my mind then is, did Obama, Inc. see what democrats.org had done and license that same software from the makers. Or, does the DNC own the software and Howard Dean really likes Obama that much that he let him borrow it?

By: Thomas Barker

Thomas Barker — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:13:27 +0000

That last post required a @ the end.

By: Thomas Barker

Thomas Barker — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:12:39 +0000

I wouldn’t be as cynical as Colin.

Very few MySpacers know anything about the “personal empowerment of social media” either

They’ll just see it as an aglomoration of hotmail, MSN contacts lists and their local classifieds. Which is pretty much all any SNS is …

(I could be wrong, maybe all his supporters will go Emo on him and just sit there writing incoherent posts about how depressed they are and how their parents don’t understand.)
http://www.mega...journal-theater

By: rapture

rapture — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:13:05 +0000

I use Drupal and it looks very Drupal-ish. I haven’t been able to find any signatures confirming that it is Drupal, though.

FYI: http://www.draftobama.org/ runs Drupal.

By: Colin Dowling

Colin Dowling — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:01:43 +0000

As for it’s purpose, the site will be an excellent study in to how quickly a community can be cobbled together and how widely accepted the social network idea is in today’s society. While Obama is likely to draw a wide range of people under the tent of his campaign, I would wager that a fair number of them know very little about the personal empowerment of social media. Lots of people who are likely to support Obama probably have little/no experience on a social network. Considering that there are about 650 days between now and election day, I imagine those people will need to get up to speed in a hurry for this to have any real effect.

By: Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:25:45 +0000

For the record, the “my” portion looks to be running php5.0.4/apache2 on a unixy system.

http://my.barac...A9-4C7B08C10000

shows the php5 credits page.

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:08:43 +0000

Guys you can stop chiming in about what you think is powering the site. It has already been figured out. It’s not me.com, it’s not Drupal, it’s not “hand coded” and it’s not surprising at all that there are “no bugs” (like that can ever be true…). It’s a pre-packed solution from Blue State Digital. With a nice template. It should probably work for him nicely. In my first comment, #12, I even linked to the admin page. There is no room for argument.

FWIW it’s not hard to launch a social networking script. What’s hard is fostering a good community. Especially in politics. Helping trade text messages and hate speech for a bunch of political zealots will not help you win.

By: Steve Parks

Steve Parks — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:33:59 +0000

I think they might be using Drupal 5. A lot of previous campaigns ran on civicspace which was a fork of drupal, but this has a few bits and pieces that make me think it's running off the latest drupal release - but with a very nice template on top.

By: thesubjective

thesubjective — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:49:36 +0000

Nice to see collective efforts being put to use by the good guys but it’s going to take a major blue tinted federation of technologist to offset the Fox political agenda.

They have our children.