Comments on: Close Encounters Of The Republican Kind: McCainSpace Relaunches

By: KickApps Raises $14M More For On-Demand Social Media. See Ya Ning! : tinyComb

KickApps Raises $14M More For On-Demand Social Media. See Ya Ning! : tinyComb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:59:06 +0000

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KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In A Series B — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:41:12 +0000

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By: Do I need to create my own social network? at Nudge Social Media

Do I need to create my own social network? at Nudge Social Media — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:56:04 +0000

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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:22:06 +0000

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By: The Paul Blog » Blog Archive » Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate’s Traffic Data?

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:52:09 +0000

[...] people are visiting these sites because they like him or hate him – perhaps the traffic stats from McCainSpace would be a better indicator. CrunchBase Information Hitwise Information provided by [...]

By: Radio: Politicians Using Soical Networks

Radio: Politicians Using Soical Networks — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:07:35 +0000

[...] I had a great time on Mario Armstrong’s Digital Spin Radio (NPR Affiliate) which was joined by KickApp’s Michael Chin. He saw my post on Social Marketing from Democrats and Republicans, which kick started this conversation. Also, McCain has launched a new social network, using KickApps, which has caused a flurry of online discussions [...]

By: S A GOULD

S A GOULD — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:58:39 +0000

Didn’t anyone try to actually POST/SEND a repy to… anything there? They have a “naughty words filter” that is so overactive that you cannot post ANYTHING that has these letters next to each other: A S S.

And if you try, you will get big red letters informing you of your violation.

So class, assessment, Massachusetts, etc are all “spelled” bizarely- as in
cl_ss or cla**.

It is astonishing that grown adults are meekly putting up with this imposed censorship.

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When Politics Invades the Tech Blogosphere : The Drama 2.0 Show — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:29:43 +0000

[...] election.” Fine, but recently, TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld took some heat for a political post that was read by some as being in bad [...]

By: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Sept 3, 2008

Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Sept 3, 2008 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:08:35 +0000

[...] McCain launches community via Kickapps McCain launches his online community, in sync with the announcement of his new VP. This online community (the URL indicates it’s [...]

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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:57:59 +0000

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By: shahram

shahram — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:19:18 +0000

he might as well say “hello Buddy” and what i dont get is why wont myspace send a C&D letter for using “Space” in the domain if a social network environment? but what i think is really sad is that he only created this site to play “Catch Up” to Obama. Which i must say has an amazing web presence. Kind of shows you the persons ability to execute a well designed and organized campaign. Really this maccainspace looks like software out of a box with stock images. Wheres the creativity? wheres the thinking out of the box? and why does McCain look like a tool in the video on the homepage?

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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:27:48 +0000

By: Social Media 301: GOP and McCain Use of Web « Social Media University, Global (SMUG)

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:29:20 +0000

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By: Do I need to create my own social network? « The Social Bazaar

Do I need to create my own social network? « The Social Bazaar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:07 +0000

[...] at this recent quote from Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington “Creating a separate social network makes little sense [...]

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:42:27 +0000

By: Christian Cabuay

Christian Cabuay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:19:58 +0000

It’s kind of late for a relaunch. Why didn’t they do this months ago? Shows how out of touch the McCain team is.

By: ValleyGal

ValleyGal — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:18:38 +0000

ooh – I have to side with Erik on this one….I cringe every time I see an online store…and I think, “Why are they so stupid to put up their own estore when there’s Amazon and eBay?” What can these people be thinking!?

By: jjwilson

jjwilson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00:49 +0000

Erick – not only are your comments juvenile, insulting and discriminatory, your logic seems pretty flawed…

“Creating a separate social network makes little sense in the age of MySpace and Facebook.” Right. How could anyone be so stupid to create their own community with their own look and feel, to own the customer experience and own the customer data? Just like why would any designer/manufacturer of goods, like Gap for instance, want to have their own retail stores when there are perfectly good brand department stores to sell through? So their items can hang on some roundtops with thousands of other items? Maybe because the retailer owns the display, the promotion, the pricing and the customer experience and data? Why would Fidelity retail their own mutual funds when there a perfectly good, big brokerage firms out there to sell through? In Facebook (and MySpace), a brand competes with all the other noise on Facebook, they are limited to Facebook’s look & feel and the capabilities they expose, they are constrained in how they communicate with customers and limited to the data they can access. Granted you need your own brand to stand on your own….but, and I hate to break this to you, both McCain and Obama are bigger brands than Facebook and MySpace combined with very impassioned supporters….it doesn’t seem too stupid for them to venture outside the constrained box of Facebook and MySpace.

Just exactly what is your area of expertise? Consumer marketing and sales? Or do you have a CS degree? Maybe you should re-evaluate who’s not so smart.

By: David D

David D — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:47:25 +0000

Here’s a joke, Eric… You’re a slovenly, puggy middle-aged hypocrite with coke-bottle glasses. Now, isn’t that funny? Don’t be offended, it’s just a joke.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 再立ち上げしたMcCainSpaceは、共和党的「未知との遭遇」

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 再立ち上げしたMcCainSpaceは、共和党的「未知との遭遇」 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:27:12 +0000

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By: Glo

Glo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:59:47 +0000

Wow, dude. have you seen Obama’s social networking site? McCain’s is actually better.

By: Kevin Kris

Kevin Kris — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:42:31 +0000

Funny

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Eric you’re becoming the master of comment bait. kudos

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:40:51 +0000

This is awesome. I have it from a closely placed source that McCainSpace is rolling out an application platform tomorrow. Forget F8..this is G8. And it’s gonna be massive.

You can sign up to learn McCain’s VP pick before everyone else. To do that, you just need to install the new SuperPoke on McCainSpace. Once you’ve installed it, send a virtual Botox shot (in honor of Cindy, of course) to at least 100 of your McCain space friends. Then, at 3am on Friday, McCainspace will announce the VP choice via notification spam. SMS and email? Obama is so 2005.

Do not miss this opportunity, people.