When Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am released the “Yes We Can” video mashup of Obama’s speech / song, many wondered why the file was uploaded to a relatively unknown site called DipDive.com. Phase 2 of the DipDive project is phenomenal. Collective video making – as users upload or share photos of Obama rallies to the site, …
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Early Innovators Are We
The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine and most widely read journal of opinion reported recently on the “new tools and new talent” that is infusing the Democratic Party and buttressing the progressive left. It is fitting that when the article describes early instances of the online infrastructure progressives built and the flaws of the older …
Read more »Young Pakistani Facebook Political Action – Will The Village Notice?
Recently, there has been an extraordinary amount of sneering, dismissive media attacks on America’s young people and the utility of the internet in politics. This website, Future Majority, dedicated to beat reporting on millennial politics has tried to correct the condescending, disdainful narratives time and time and time and time and time again but yet …
Read more »Playing With Widgets and Data
Here at Advomatic, we’re getting pretty good at the whole widget thing. The data thing has been our forte for a while, but now there’s the widgets that we keep nailing, and of course we’re still pretty good at the whole the speaking truth to power thing. Let’s discuss: The non-partisan Drum Major Institute for …
Read more »Advomatic Has Been Winning
From praise to prizes to cash, Advomatic projects have been on a roll recently. It’s a pleasure to offer this run down of some recent client-partners and the encomiums heaped upon their websites: TechPresident won the $10,000 Grand Prize for “Innovations in Journalism” from The Knight-Batten Awards. There were even some other Drupal sites among …
Read more »We Made a Widget
Our team has been so hard at work over the last few months that we’ve had little time to brag about the accomplishments we’ve achieved for our clients. Well, this time, we have to make the time. Introducing the Maplight Presidential fund raising widget. The Widget is a custom flash doohickey that allows you to …
Read more »What “Never Ending Friending” Means
Ever since NewsCorp put out that self-aggrandizing study on how MySpace is the best place ever to buy advertising, I’ve been thinking about what it means. The study was designed to double monthly advertising revenue from $30m to $60 and so much of the methodology is about brand identification and how well MySpacers react to …
Read more »Staring into the abyss: 10pm EDT
One of the tasks that seems to persistently find its way to my doorstep is building calendaring systems. Always maddening, incredibly frustrating and never as easy as it seems it should be, building a system that deals with events and dates and times is a rite of passage for many developers. You can always tell …
Read more »Drinking Liberally in the news
One of the great orgs we actively support, sponsor, and are building a new website for, is Drinking Liberally (DL). I personally host a DL event at the Mayan theatre in Denver every third Wednesday of the month. The NYC Advomatic team attends one of the NYC DLs every week. Well, apparently, we made an …
Read more »The Fish Ladder of Greater Participation
How do you promote deeper participation from your web membership, collect valuable demographics from them, and avoid triggering common negative reactions to data collection? With a clear set of objectives for your web site, and some new ways of structuring features, you can help guide your members to action on behalf of your organization; all …
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