Welcome candidates.amung.us!
Everybody please welcome the latest member to the amung.us family, candidates! We've been hard at work the past while pulling it together and it has turned out to be a very cool app that should lead to some very interesting results. The best way to describe it is from our learn more page:
We provide a method for you to turn your website, blog or social networking profile into an endorsement for a 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidate. For years, established print-media publications, and large lobbyist groups have been the sole source of coveted endorsements made towards one candidate or another.
These endorsements are used as an important measure into the success of any political campaign, and we feel it's about time the concept is brought into the 21st century. If you maintain any sort of online publication, now you too can officially proclaim your support for your favored candidate, with a candidates.amung.us endorsement!
This also marks Amung.us's first foray into Facebook applications. We've made a Facebook application verison of candidates.amung.us that allows you to endorse any of the candidates on your profile. We hope this helps to encourage young people to vote this Novemeber and it will be interesting to see how the younger population on Facebook views the election.
Get out there and vote next November, but in the mean time show your support for a candidate now!
One final note, it will likely take a few days for the candidates widget to spread enough for the results to settle down, so the sooner you add the widget the sooner we can have consistent results.
We also *promise* to bring graphs back very soon, we've been doing some significant rewrites to our core statistic daemons that should increase performance several fold. On that same note we are working as fast as we can to get some new performance improvements implemented to keep the system faster and more reliable.
We provide a method for you to turn your website, blog or social networking profile into an endorsement for a 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidate. For years, established print-media publications, and large lobbyist groups have been the sole source of coveted endorsements made towards one candidate or another.
These endorsements are used as an important measure into the success of any political campaign, and we feel it's about time the concept is brought into the 21st century. If you maintain any sort of online publication, now you too can officially proclaim your support for your favored candidate, with a candidates.amung.us endorsement!
This also marks Amung.us's first foray into Facebook applications. We've made a Facebook application verison of candidates.amung.us that allows you to endorse any of the candidates on your profile. We hope this helps to encourage young people to vote this Novemeber and it will be interesting to see how the younger population on Facebook views the election.
Get out there and vote next November, but in the mean time show your support for a candidate now!
One final note, it will likely take a few days for the candidates widget to spread enough for the results to settle down, so the sooner you add the widget the sooner we can have consistent results.
We also *promise* to bring graphs back very soon, we've been doing some significant rewrites to our core statistic daemons that should increase performance several fold. On that same note we are working as fast as we can to get some new performance improvements implemented to keep the system faster and more reliable.
