Comments on: TechPresident: Tracking Candidate Use of MySpace, YouTube, AdSense http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:48:34 -0800 hourly 1 By: pasmoパスモで行こう！ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1320760 pasmoパスモで行こう！ Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:35:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-1320760 <strong>定期入れから出さないで使えます...</strong> パスモ(pasmo)は、スイカ(Suica)やイコカ(Icoca)同様、改札を通過する際にも定期入れから出さずに使えます。 使い方はとっても簡単。電車の場合はパスモ(pasmo)を定期入れごと改札機にちょこ... 定期入れから出さないで使えます…

パスモ(pasmo)は、スイカ(Suica)やイコカ(Icoca)同様、改札を通過する際にも定期入れから出さずに使えます。
使い方はとっても簡単。電車の場合はパスモ(pasmo)を定期入れごと改札機にちょこ…

]]> By: Jeff Weller http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1012808 Jeff Weller Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:29:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-1012808 One of our employees includes tracking of 2008 Presidential Candidates at www.peopleTrender.com The Summary Heat Map is at: http://www.peopletrender.com/Candidate-Heat-Map.htm One of our employees includes tracking of 2008 Presidential Candidates at http://www.peopleTrender.com The Summary Heat Map is at: http://www.peop...te-Heat-Map.htm

]]> By: Jae http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-976186 Jae Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:51:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-976186 Is it true that obama's middle name is hussien? Is it true that obama’s middle name is hussien?

]]> By: Stoo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-954676 Stoo Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:58:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-954676 It's a misnomer to call them the "Democratic" party. The individual politicians are not Democratics. They are Democrats; thus, a Democrat party. We don't call the opposing party the Republicanics. It's a weak attempt for them to sound more like the only party supporting equality and fairness. It’s a misnomer to call them the “Democratic” party. The individual politicians are not Democratics. They are Democrats; thus, a Democrat party. We don’t call the opposing party the Republicanics. It’s a weak attempt for them to sound more like the only party supporting equality and fairness.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-950150 Andrew Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:38:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-950150 Did anybody else notice that the Contact page on techpresident.com is broken and doesn't show any useful information? Did anybody else notice that the Contact page on techpresident.com is broken and doesn’t show any useful information?

]]> By: Alex Hammer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-949777 Alex Hammer Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:26:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-949777 Seeking leading bloggers from across the political spectrum for Politics 2.0 - The Convergence of Politics and Web 2.0. Join one Presidential candidate and other leading contributors. Send writing samples to me at hscpub@aol.com for immediate consideration. Seeking leading bloggers from across the political spectrum for Politics 2.0 – The Convergence of Politics and Web 2.0. Join one Presidential candidate and other leading contributors. Send writing samples to me at hscpub@aol.com for immediate consideration.

]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-947763 Hasan Jafri Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:45:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-947763 Hi Michah - Thank you for responding, The phased approach sounds great, so long as it is clearly spelled out to your community. When users create content they should know the terms. I agree you shouldn't yourself have to moderate posts all day long, but perhaps you could enlist a group of volunteers to share the work with you. Best Wishes, Hasan Hi Michah -

Thank you for responding, The phased approach sounds great, so long as it is clearly spelled out to your community. When users create content they should know the terms. I agree you shouldn’t yourself have to moderate posts all day long, but perhaps you could enlist a group of volunteers to share the work with you.

Best Wishes,

Hasan

]]> By: Micah Sifry http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-947430 Micah Sifry Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:28:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-947430 I've put a fuller post on this topic here: http://www.techpresident.com/node/54 I’ve put a fuller post on this topic here: http://www.tech...ent.com/node/54

]]> By: Micah Sifry http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-947335 Micah Sifry Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:04:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-947335 Hasan-- Thank you for spotting two problems with TechPresident's user permissions. The site is a group blog, not an open site where any user can blog. Comments are definitely open thread, but as of now we are not allowing random visitors to create blog posts or stories. We have the same policy at PersonalDemocracy.com, and frankly I had thought that's what our developers had installed for TP (it's on the same platform). I apologize for deleting your post instead of leaving it up and using it as an opportunity to talk about our editorial approach. That said, you raise an intriguing point--perhaps we should allow registered users to blog and put all posts in a moderation queue. Right now I give our core group of contributing bloggers free rein to post at will because I know them, we've discussed editorial policy, and I'm confident they will be responsible. If we opened the site to anyone who wanted to blog on it, I have an immediate worry that people will start using it to score partisan points for or against particular candidates, which is what most people want to do on political blogs, and which I think will really detract from TechPresident's purpose. So then I get into moderating posts all day long. There's a middle ground I think, which is to grow the site's blogging community by reading people's comments (on the site and on other blogs) and inviting new people in as it becomes clear that they grok what we're trying to do. What do you think? Micah Hasan–
Thank you for spotting two problems with TechPresident’s user permissions. The site is a group blog, not an open site where any user can blog. Comments are definitely open thread, but as of now we are not allowing random visitors to create blog posts or stories. We have the same policy at PersonalDemocracy.com, and frankly I had thought that’s what our developers had installed for TP (it’s on the same platform). I apologize for deleting your post instead of leaving it up and using it as an opportunity to talk about our editorial approach.
That said, you raise an intriguing point–perhaps we should allow registered users to blog and put all posts in a moderation queue. Right now I give our core group of contributing bloggers free rein to post at will because I know them, we’ve discussed editorial policy, and I’m confident they will be responsible. If we opened the site to anyone who wanted to blog on it, I have an immediate worry that people will start using it to score partisan points for or against particular candidates, which is what most people want to do on political blogs, and which I think will really detract from TechPresident’s purpose. So then I get into moderating posts all day long.
There’s a middle ground I think, which is to grow the site’s blogging community by reading people’s comments (on the site and on other blogs) and inviting new people in as it becomes clear that they grok what we’re trying to do.
What do you think?
Micah

]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-945784 Hasan Jafri Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:20:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-945784 @SorenG, I think you're right on the money. I looked closely at the site and though it's slickly packaged the editorial end doesn't hold up TechPresident needs better fact-checking and editing. Here's how their editing operation works: No sooner had I posted my last message than I got a damage control e-mail (note they did not engage me in an open thread) from TechPresident’s edtor Michah Sifry stating “unfortunately, I had to take your post (of the flubbed Romney video) down because we are not an open site.” Not true. Why else does TechPresident give its members a blog function and a Digg-like form to link and introduce stories? Or at least it did till two hours ago. Sure, you don’t have to be open thread (as this blog is) but in that case you should at least include a note to users saying posts are moderated. Duh! Three tips since this is obviously a learning curve for these guys (and I still like their site): 1. Fess up when you mess up. 2. Don’t make excuses. 3. NEVER try to control an open thread conversation, especially about a new product, through backdoor e-mails. @SorenG, I think you’re right on the money. I looked closely at the site and though it’s slickly packaged the editorial end doesn’t hold up TechPresident needs better fact-checking and editing.

Here’s how their editing operation works:

No sooner had I posted my last message than I got a damage control e-mail (note they did not engage me in an open thread) from TechPresident’s edtor Michah Sifry stating “unfortunately, I had to take your post (of the flubbed Romney video) down because we are not an open site.”

Not true. Why else does TechPresident give its members a blog function and a Digg-like form to link and introduce stories? Or at least it did till two hours ago. Sure, you don’t have to be open thread (as this blog is) but in that case you should at least include a note to users saying posts are moderated. Duh!

Three tips since this is obviously a learning curve for these guys (and I still like their site):

1. Fess up when you mess up.
2. Don’t make excuses.
3. NEVER try to control an open thread conversation, especially about a new product, through backdoor e-mails.

]]> By: SorenG http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-945666 SorenG Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:50:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-945666 From the site: "Four Republicans (Romney, McCain, Giuliani, and Tancredo) are using search to reach voters compared to two Democrats (Vilsack and Richardson)." Do a search for Barack Obama and a sponsored link paid for by barackobama.com comes up second. Why is everyone reporting that he is not, and do not even bother to check? If they are paying for a sponsored link, it seems like they are using search to reach potential voters to me. Everyone seems to just jump on the bandwagon without taking two minutes to check. From the site: “Four Republicans (Romney, McCain, Giuliani, and Tancredo) are using search to reach voters compared to two Democrats (Vilsack and Richardson).”

Do a search for Barack Obama and a sponsored link paid for by barackobama.com comes up second. Why is everyone reporting that he is not, and do not even bother to check? If they are paying for a sponsored link, it seems like they are using search to reach potential voters to me. Everyone seems to just jump on the bandwagon without taking two minutes to check.

]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-945246 Hasan Jafri Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:24:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-945246 On second thoughts I am going to qualify my endorsement. I just tried posting a video of the Mitt Romney flub on Iran to TechPresident and it didn't work. The link went live for five minutes and then disappeared. It disappeared from TP's front page and from MYnewly created blog space on TP's site. Great cosmetics, but the blog function needs fine tuning. Either that or little green men from the Romney campaign are stopping embarrassing video downloads. On second thoughts I am going to qualify my endorsement. I just tried posting a video of the Mitt Romney flub on Iran to TechPresident and it didn’t work. The link went live for five minutes and then disappeared. It disappeared from TP’s front page and from MYnewly created blog space on TP’s site.

Great cosmetics, but the blog function needs fine tuning. Either that or little green men from the Romney campaign are stopping embarrassing video downloads.

]]> By: Marianne Richmond http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-945162 Marianne Richmond Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:00:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-945162 Thanks for the mention Marshall...Splash Cast rocks! We will definitely get it up on campaigno8 blog. Marianne Thanks for the mention Marshall…Splash Cast rocks! We will definitely get it up on campaigno8 blog.
Marianne

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]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944568 Hasan Jafri Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:47:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944568 Cool tool. If you think about it, this helps to aggregate the ongoing globalization of the U.S. presidential elections. Sure, people on the coasts are the main audience but just about everyone in the world with an interest in who gets to the White House will use TechPresident. For younger voters it's also a way to see plainly who's with it and who ain't. Spread the word, enjoy the goodness. Cool tool. If you think about it, this helps to aggregate the ongoing globalization of the U.S. presidential elections. Sure, people on the coasts are the main audience but just about everyone in the world with an interest in who gets to the White House will use TechPresident. For younger voters it’s also a way to see plainly who’s with it and who ain’t. Spread the word, enjoy the goodness.

]]> By: TechCrunch Me! http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944257 TechCrunch Me! Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:16:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944257 I hope the candidates are obstaining from any and all Cigar Play. Check this out http://www.techcrunchme.com I hope the candidates are obstaining from any and all Cigar Play.
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]]> By: tomworth http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944214 tomworth Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:02:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944214 This is great stuff. Now let's take it one step further: American Idol-type process (but not requiring tv or a manipulating network) to select an alternative "web" candidate, not required to fulfill any obligations to a major party or interest. I've got a few details at my own visitorless ghost town of a blog, but it would be video-based (i.e. youtube), with total unknowns making their cases to us, the web-savvy masses. They would fill out questionnaires at a single website that are detailed in their stances on micro issues as well as the intractable ones (war, poverty, healthcare, etc.), so that people could make an informed decision based on who stands for the little fixable things that a particular individual cares about deeply. POP LITERATURE/WEB BUZZ WARNING: it'd be a combo Wisdom of Crowds/The Long Tail/Youtube experiment in not electing from a group of 2, but in CHOOSING who gets to be part of the group to elect from. Let the VC (or heck, Rupert Murdoch) money roll in and fund a warchest for whomever our eventual internet candidate(s) is (are). This is great stuff. Now let’s take it one step further: American Idol-type process (but not requiring tv or a manipulating network) to select an alternative “web” candidate, not required to fulfill any obligations to a major party or interest. I’ve got a few details at my own visitorless ghost town of a blog, but it would be video-based (i.e. youtube), with total unknowns making their cases to us, the web-savvy masses. They would fill out questionnaires at a single website that are detailed in their stances on micro issues as well as the intractable ones (war, poverty, healthcare, etc.), so that people could make an informed decision based on who stands for the little fixable things that a particular individual cares about deeply. POP LITERATURE/WEB BUZZ WARNING: it’d be a combo Wisdom of Crowds/The Long Tail/Youtube experiment in not electing from a group of 2, but in CHOOSING who gets to be part of the group to elect from. Let the VC (or heck, Rupert Murdoch) money roll in and fund a warchest for whomever our eventual internet candidate(s) is (are).

]]> By: rob http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944186 rob Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:52:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944186 "Milt" Romney in '08! milt? i mean, seriously ; ) “Milt” Romney in ‘08!

milt? i mean, seriously ; )

]]> By: College Marketing 4.0 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944116 College Marketing 4.0 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:30:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944116 <strong>Adopting to Trends: Googling Presidential Candidates...</strong> Two trends based off of the same event: Presidential Candidates (at least their PR people) are purchasing keywords in online search. Trend one: Before the primaries people are recognizing the importance of search (both Romney and Guilliani's people ac... Adopting to Trends: Googling Presidential Candidates…

Two trends based off of the same event: Presidential Candidates (at least their PR people) are purchasing keywords in online search. Trend one: Before the primaries people are recognizing the importance of search (both Romney and Guilliani’s people ac…

]]> By: Doug http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-944100 Doug Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:26:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-944100 I run DailyPrez.com, a blog devoted to the Presidential Election. I've used Tech President quite a bit - its a very helpful tool for political bloggers. Great job - keep it up! I run DailyPrez.com, a blog devoted to the Presidential Election. I’ve used Tech President quite a bit – its a very helpful tool for political bloggers. Great job – keep it up!

]]> By: David http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-943909 David Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:22:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/14/techpresident-tracking-candidate-use-of-myspace-youtube-adsense/#comment-943909 This is not on-topic, but perhaps it's a story lead. After reading Michael's post on PowerSet, I also heard a short segment on the WSJ podcast about PowerSet today. The claim was that Google wasn't able to pull up the answer to "Who did IBM acquire in 1996?" correctly, but PowerSet did. Michael is probably familiar with LexisNexis and Westlaw from his lawyer days. Anyway, I typed in "Who did IBM acquire in 1996?" in Lexis's natural language search of all English news and was able to find the answer very easily (within the top 3 hits). I don't know what dataset PowerSet is using, but this is a pretty large (and controlled) dataset that Lexis is searching in. This makes me wonder - if they're licensing the technology from Xerox, what's so different to make it great? The legal community has been developing natural language search and if Xerox has this technology why haven't they (or have they) licensed it to Lexis and Westlaw. This is not on-topic, but perhaps it’s a story lead.

After reading Michael’s post on PowerSet, I also heard a short segment on the WSJ podcast about PowerSet today. The claim was that Google wasn’t able to pull up the answer to “Who did IBM acquire in 1996?” correctly, but PowerSet did.

Michael is probably familiar with LexisNexis and Westlaw from his lawyer days. Anyway, I typed in “Who did IBM acquire in 1996?” in Lexis’s natural language search of all English news and was able to find the answer very easily (within the top 3 hits). I don’t know what dataset PowerSet is using, but this is a pretty large (and controlled) dataset that Lexis is searching in.

This makes me wonder – if they’re licensing the technology from Xerox, what’s so different to make it great? The legal community has been developing natural language search and if Xerox has this technology why haven’t they (or have they) licensed it to Lexis and Westlaw.

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