techPresident - announcement - Comments

Not News.

fanboy — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:35:55 -0400

I thought everyone already knew Alexa scores mean absolutely nothing. They can be gamed just like the Ron Paul'ers are doing with digg.com by floating their stories to the top by having an organized crowd.

Except webmasters, who actually has the alexa toolbar installed?

But seriously, he's nowhere near Barack Obama in any REAL numbers.

Alabama for Barack Obama

BOOTS ON THE GROUND

RPmaniac — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:25:06 -0400

Meetup.com members as of 9/11/2007
These numbers are important, because they are unsolicited grass roots support, and they are actual people who are out supporting the candidate of their choice.

Republicans

Paul............42,566
Hunter.............192
Thompson...........170
McCain.............107
Giuliani............55
Tancredo............04
Huckabee............31
Romney..............30
Brownback............0

Democrats

Obama..........5809
Edwards........4123
Kucinich.......4039
Clinton........2022
Gravel...........44
Richardson.......33
Biden.............0
Dodd..............0

Fred Flintstone's Amazing Technological Breakthrough... NOT!

adamkuehner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:25:30 -0400

The recent statistics for Fred's website reflect the fact that his announcement was widely publicized. They do not reflect anything about his ability to harness technology. Now that the hoopla is over, let's see how his long term stats compare to those of longstanding internet campaign extraordinaire, Dr. Ron Paul. My prediction: Fred is a flash in the proverbial pan.

Big Whoop - Ron Paul still has more traffic

jeff — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:00:20 -0400

Welcome to 2nd place Fred

Alexa Graph w/ RonPaul2008.com

Alexa is a flawed measuring tool?

Tex MacRae — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:23:06 -0400

Steve, Patrick knows better than to compare Fred with Ron Paul. Here's a direct quote:

"Alexa is a flawed measuring tool because it’s self-selected. According to Alexa, Ron Paul is even bigger than Barack Obama online."

Fred's traffic falls below Ron Paul's

Steve Dasbach — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:19:47 -0400

As of September 7 (the day after the chart above) Alexa shows that traffic to fred08.com had already dropped below ronpaul2008.com (rising after the September 5th debate).

They should rethink their entire internet operation...

Encoderer — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:11:15 -0500

I'm not sure what branding the McCain website is supposed to re-enforce. A basic part of any design is picking the right pallet. They appear to have skirted this step by making a website that's almost entirely black & white.

It's impossible for me to understand why anyone thought this would be a good idea. It's like he's running for funeral director.

Furthermore, the only actual content on his website is flash-based. That means no screen readers, no dynamic text resizing, no search-engine indexing, no copy/paste, no right-click-save-as to capture a picture from the website, and if you're running AdBlock or Flash Block or if you simply don't have flash installed it literally has NO CONTENT on the front page.

Not to mention, there is no logical focal point. My eyes literally don't know what to look at. The "main content area" (aka, the main flash video) is too far to the right & in the middle to grab it. When I load the page the McCain logo catches my eye, but it's not visually pleasing. There's no balance. Separate content areas don't align and aren't symmetrical.

It's an abomination.

The only site I've seen that's worse from a major candidate is Rudy's. Don't even get me started there. It's clearly just a "pre-announce" website but if it's any indication of what's to come, McCain might win by virtue of default. The flags in the header are all pointed different ways like the picture was taken in a hurricane or something, and the picture of Rudy is just awful. His smile and the way he's clutching his hands make him look like an evil madman.

Now that Vilsack is out of the race the website-critique curve has just gotten a little more difficult and Rudy is the number one victim.

This is 2008, people. There is no tolerance for having anything but a top-notch web operation.

But...

David All — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:29:28 -0500

I think the timing probably had at least a little something to do with the fact that they wanted to edit and embed McCain's actual announcement on Letterman in to their website -- and get it out to folks to preview before the show airs.

Check it out here.

But you're right, they could/should have announced it on their blog this morning that he was... Oh wait... The blog's coming soon...

Heh.

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