Want to follow every Tweet, blog post, YouTube video and Flickr photo put out by the Obama or McCain camps? Now you can follow the campaigns in a handy Dipity Election Center timeline. Using its latest Dipity 2.0 timeline mashup, the Election Center places each entry on a timeline that you can scroll through. Click on an entry, and a box opens to show you more detailed information. You can also leave a comment.
Each timeline can be embedded as a widget anywhere on the Web. And you can see everyone’s comments from any widget. The idea is that Obama supporters will put the Obama widget on their MySpace page or blog and that McCain supporters will do the same on theirs. I’ve embedded both widgets below. You can see by the larger number of entries for the Obama campaign that it is making better use of social media to get its message out. (At least that was the case when I looked at the timelines—see screenshot).
Nicely done and presented!
Agreed. This is a very intuitive way to view information chronologically. You can see patterns emerging in a way that is very helpful. It seems like a great tool for strategizing the next move in a campaign but I see even greater use in the financial markets, where you could track related indices in real time.
There is even more reasons to vote this year, as there are many ways to get info on the candidates. Nice post
Thanks for the post, Erick.
The observation about how the two campaigns are using Web 2.0 was pretty astute. We got all the official channels for both candidates and Obama simply updates through a lot more sites, and much more often.
There’s also a lot more use of new technology for Obama, his blog has an RSS feed while McCain’s doesn’t, for example.
There’s plenty to follow for McCain still though. Hope everyone likes it!
BK
Dipity sure gets a lot of coverage on TechCrunch. Every feature release gets a story. Did you guys invest in them, are they buddies of yours greasing you up for free publicity before they hit the deadpool?
Well that’s still not as intersting as the McCain data at http://www.Stea...AtTheTiller.com
Wow, they might have wanted to grab that domain before they went making that a buzz term.
I don’t see the relevance of this widget. Who cares what text message or RSS announcement went out when? That’s all weak sauce. I want real meat. Check out http://2008election.procon.org for the issues. I also like factcheck.org.