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liberalart — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:56:17 -0400

The WSJ article makes it seem as though Chris Hughes showed up at the Obama campagn and brought MyBarackObama with him or helped build it from scratch. But it's almost entirely BlueStateDigital's pre-Obama toolset.

I was Creative Director when at BSD when it was initially developed for ProgressNow, and later adapted for the DNC's PartyBuilder. For the most part the functionality there is largely due to Jascha Franklin Hodge's Boston team at BSD and Bobby Clark and his folks at ProgressNow in Colorado.

While it may be influenced by early facebook and will probably continue to evolve, the fact it was already a built and tested product is the reason MyBarackObama was able to go live at the same time Sen. Obama announced his candidacy.

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