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Obama launches social network
by Emily Price Feb 12th 2007
After receiving a huge amount of support on Facebook before his campaign even started, presidential candidate Barak Obama has decided to capitilize on the popularity of social networking sites and launch a social network of his own. My.BarackObama allows you to create a profile, connect with friends, schedule events, send and receive messages, join groups and even write a blog essentially creating a Facebook or Myspace like atmosphere right on the campaign website.The site I think will do a great job of organizing Obama's current supporters, allowing them to easily get to know each other and about events going on in their particular area. After only being live for about a day the site has generated over 1,000 new groups. As far as bringing in any additional support off the web for him and his political campaign, I don't see how it really helps. What do you think about using your own social networking site as a political tool?
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