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Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by organsnyder »

reacweb wrote: post #9

I am surprised that only hillaryclinton.com has public whois data. IMHO, hidding behind a proxy is not a good cue for trust. Three among four are very slow to load on my PC. I think this very good article should also compare the performances of the websites.

Whois data is more used by spammers than anyone else. It's not like the other sites are purposefully trying to hide their contact information—if they want donations, they'll make sure to prominently display a mailing address.

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by CrazedGeek »

Animats wrote: post #8

I ran those sites through the Sitetruth.com business legitimacy checker. The results are amusing. hillaryclinton.com - no street address on web site. SSL cert is domain control only validated. Known to Open Directory, so it gets a medium rating of a yellow circle. tedcruz.org - the robots.txt file redirects to the robots.txt file at "www.tedcruz.org". We interpret this as "robots go away", which is perhaps too strict…

Moderately related (in an "it amused me" way): The back of the building Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters is in faces a Clinton St.: https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/584004566041112576

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by toothbrush »

Jedd wrote: post #10

It's bemusing that we are to assume this is the USA presidential candidate - neither of the strings 'usa' or 'america' appear on the page. Other countires that have presidents presumably need to identify themselves so as to not confuse (other) people.

Wait, you mean there are other countries than just the US of A?

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Post by qxcv »

Jedd wrote: post #10

It's bemusing that we are to assume this is the USA presidential candidate - neither of the strings 'usa' or 'america' appear on the page. Other countires that have presidents presumably need to identify themselves so as to not confuse (other) people.

"The Royal Family" gets similar treatment. I suspect that it's a language thing---there are only two Anglosphere countries with presidents, and the other one (Ireland) has ~1/50th the population of the US and lots of Irish speakers, so if you see an English language post about "the President", then there's a good chance that it's referring to the US one. I'd like to see speakers of other languages (or Anglophones from outside the Anglosphere) confirm or refute this hunch.

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Post by DanBC »

Jedd wrote: post #10

It's bemusing that we are to assume this is the USA presidential candidate - neither of the strings 'usa' or 'america' appear on the page. Other countires that have presidents presumably need to identify themselves so as to not confuse (other) people.

Sorry, I just accidentally downvoted you. I meant to upvote.

Re: Presidential candidate website tech, compared

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Post by chki »

qxcv wrote: post #15
Jedd wrote: post #10

It's bemusing that we are to assume this is the USA presidential candidate - neither of the strings 'usa' or 'america' appear on the page. Other countires that have presidents presumably need to identify themselves so as to not confuse (other) people.

"The Royal Family" gets similar treatment. I suspect that it's a language thing---there are only two Anglosphere countries with presidents, and the other one (Ireland) has ~1/50th the population of the US and lots of Irish speakers, so if you see an English language post about "the President", then there's a good chance that it's referring to the US one. I'd like to see speakers of other languages (or Anglophones fro…

In Germany elections don't rely that heavily on the candidates so it is hard to say. But generally speaking there is no clear identification as well, (except for the fact that the address ends on ".de")

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Post by hga »

nodesocket wrote: post #4

Presidential campaigns have most definitely gone very high-tech. The Obama campaign was run by some really smart guys ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed ) using lots of services on AWS. Check out their infrastructure diagram (heads-up its 60MB). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14405212/AWSOFA-Print-27... Finally, here is a great tech talk video by the Obama for America tech team lead by CTO Harper Reed. h…

Ah, AWS/the cloud makes a lot of sense for a campaign. Of limited duration, and the more successful, the more it'll have bursts of traffic tied to events.
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