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TechPresident.com launches presidential video forum

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TechPresident.com today launched 10Questions.com, a user-generated presidential video debate, in association with the editorial board of The New York Times and MSNBC.com, and the co-sponsorship of more than forty web sites that span the political spectrum.

10Questions.com gives users the opportunity to submit online video questions addressed to the candidates through a variety of video platforms including YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo and Blip.tv by tagging their video with the word “10Questions.” The 10Questions site will then display those videos and enable the public to vote to determine the ten best submissions. At the end of four weeks, the top ten questions will be submitted to all the major candidates. The candidates will have four weeks to submit un-timed video responses to the questions. As those responses are posted, 10Question.com users will be given the opportunity to vote on whether the candidates have answered the questions to their satisfaction.

Users can vote on as many videos as they like, but may only submit one video; user submissions are due by November 14. The entire project will be
completed on December 31, 2007.

Originally posted on October 22, 2007 @ 1:48 pm

Barack Obama next to participate in MySpace and MTV Presidential Dialogue Series

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obama1.pngMySpace and MTV announced that U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) will be the next participant in their Presidential Dialogue series. The Dialogue with Sen. Obama will take place October 29 at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT on the campus of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA and will be streamed live on MySpace, MTV’s ChooseOrLose.com and MTV Mobile, and exclusively premiere on air on MTV at 7 pm ET/PT that night. MTV News Correspondents Gideon Yago and Sway Calloway, as well as WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza, will serve as moderators. Industry-leading pollsters John McLaughlin and Geoffrey Garin will return to oversee the real-time polling data and questions submitted via MySpaceIM and Think.MTV.com.

The inaugural MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue, with former Senator John Edwards, reached a wide audience on-air, online and on mobile phones. Held last September 27, the event was broadcast live on MySpace and ChooseorLose.com, and since its online premiere, has been streamed approximately 350,000 times. The on-air broadcast (7-8 pm ET) was the top program for viewers aged 18-24 across all of cable for the time period, and was seen by a total of nearly two million viewers overall. Nearly 2,300 questions were submitted for Senator Edwards by online viewers during the course of the one hour Dialogue. Adding to its historical significance, the Dialogue with John Edwards was the first-ever Presidential forum to be broadcast live on mobile phones, via MTV Mobile.

The MySpace and MTV Dialogue series is the first in history to allow a national at home audience the opportunity to respond to candidate’s answers instantaneously – with that feedback piped back into the discussion and used to shape its direction – as well as the ability to pose questions in real-time, via MySpaceIM and ChooseOrLose.com. Throughout the event, online viewers can immediately register their approval or disapproval of a candidate’s responses via a revolutionary online polling tool, powered by Flektor (www.flektor.com), as they watch the Dialogue live. Instant results are displayed on the screen and viewers can compare their opinions to those of the entire community through a “popular vote” function. Poll results are available online live during each event and archived for future viewing.

Originally posted on October 18, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

Obama reaces out to Community Connect members

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obama.pngCommunity Connect Inc. (CCI) announced that presidential candidate Barack Obama has created a member profile on each of the company’s five sites in an effort to excite and engage potential voters. Since going live on October 5, 2007, the success of the campaign has become evident with Senator Obama’s profiles garnering over 200,000 friends. In one week, his profile on BlackPlanet.com garnered more friends than his MySpace and Facebook profiles.

Senator Obama’s campaign approached CCI’s niche social networking communities to facilitate compelling dialogues among passionate constituents. His presence across BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, AsianAve.com, GLEE.com and Faithbase.com allows his messages to disseminate and circulate among highly targeted niche groups, and in turn, gives those audiences a voice on the issues that concern them.

Senator Obama’s profile includes an active question and answer mechanic, regularly updated blogs, behind-the-scenes photos and new videos from the campaign trail. The profile is updated directly by his official campaigners, and represents a thoughtful, in depth look at his policies.

Originally posted on October 15, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

washingtonpost.com launches election widget

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washingtonwidget.pngwashingtonpost.com announced two new ways to get comprehensive candidate news and information from its website without having to be on the site, or even on a computer.

The “Election Collection ‘08” will provide complete candidate profiles organized in easy-to-navigate tabs, including biographical information, the latest news feeds, campaign event schedules, and fundraising data. Available as a widget or portable application, users can conveniently access washingtonpost.com’s campaign coverage from their personalized web pages, blogs or social networks.

As part of that mobile strategy, washingtonpost.com is also expanding the politics section of its mobile site to include an Election ’08 channel. This subsection will soon allow users to access the same comprehensive candidate information they can find on the site and in the “Election Collection ’08” widget, including bio information, news, campaign stops and campaign financing.

Originally posted on October 8, 2007 @ 10:46 am

RealClearPolitics.com launches ‘Fantasy ’08’ Political Stock Market powered by Intrade

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realclearpolitics.jpgRealClearPolitics and Intrade announced today the launch of ‘Fantasy ’08’ – an interactive trading market focused on the 2008 U.S. elections.

“We are thrilled to expand our long-standing partnership with Intrade to offer readers a fun, competitive and insightful trading market that captures the excitement and interest in the 2008 election,” said John McIntyre, co-founder and Managing Editor of RealClearPolitics.com. “It represents a great way for our readers to act on all of the information RCP provides every single day, from the latest political news to the most up to date polling information included in our RealClearPolitics Poll Averages.”

Individuals who play ‘Fantasy ’08’ will receive an account with $10,000 RCP dollars, which they can use to trade on a nearly unlimited number of markets related to the 2008 election. Who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for President? Who will control the House and Senate? Who will be President? Players on Fantasy ’08 can trade these questions, and many more, according to their own passions and opinions – just like they’d play the stock market. Up for grabs are bragging rights between friends and colleagues.

Go to RealClearPolitics.com for full details on how to sign up and begin trading, as well as leaderboards to track your progress can be found on the web site.

Originally posted on September 21, 2007 @ 2:27 pm