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Study: Web Forging New Political Connections
By Kenneth Corbin
June 16, 2008

New research suggests many people are using the Web to bypass traditional media outlets to learn about the presidential campaign and gain what they believe is "unfiltered" access to candidates.

In a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, researchers said they found that 39 percent of U.S. adults are using the Web to access original source material from the campaign, such as videos of the debates, speeches or candidates' position papers.

Writing for the Internet is different than writing a book. You must be precise and state exactly what your site is about in as few words as possible. This article explains this masterfully.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Writers beware, no matter how good you think you are, chances are Web surfers don't have time to pour over your precious prose. Surfers scour the Web or leverage search engines to find the information they want and if your site doesn't deliver the goods quickly, they'll probably just click elsewhere.

We came across this posting over at YCombinator, and lo and behold, this is almost everything we want to do, and our social networking platform can be easily adapted for these uses.  The newspaper and news media platform idea especially works for us.

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There are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly. But then it actually becomes harder to judge them: is this group proposing x because they were already thinking about it, or because they know that's what we want to hear?

We don't like to sit on these ideas, though, because we really want people to work on them. So we're trying something new: we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn't anticipate.

Please don't feel that if you want to apply to Y Combinator, you have to work on one of these types of ideas. If we've learned nothing else from doing YC, it's how little we know. Many of the best startups we've funded, like Loopt, proposed things we'd never considered.

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