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The Obama campaign's overall technology use is brilliant. But why do they have to engage in cheap deception?

By CurtMonash on Sun, 11/02/08 - 3:37am.
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 Correction: The "CNNBC" video I was writing about is actually by MoveOn.org, not the Obama campaign. I apologize for the error! 

I've been praising the Obama campaign's personalized viral video to the skies. And I stand by that; whatever your politics or nationality, you should look at it and take away lessons for your own business. But the website that delivers it is more problematic. It's designed to look like a news site, but with fake headlines and tabs. And the search box is a complete sham, even worse than Obama's infamous Search Engine to Nowhere.

Why??

I certainly hope that, if and when he is elected, Obama will see to it that this petty chicanery gets cut out.

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Curt Monash is a leading analyst of and strategic advisor to the software industry. Praised by Lawrence J. Ellison for his "unmatched insight into technology and marketplace trends," Curt was the software/services industry's #1 ranked stock analyst while at PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as a First Vice President until 1987. He subsequently co-founded Evernet, Inc., a $40 million networking systems integrator. Since 1990, he has owned and operated Monash Research, an analysis and advisory firm covering software-intensive sectors of the technology industry. In that period he also has been co-founder, president, or chairman of several other technology startups.

Curt has served as a strategic advisor to many well-known firms, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, AOL, CA, and Netezza. Curt earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (Game Theory) from Harvard University. He has held faculty positions in mathematics, economics and public policy at Harvard, Yale, and Suffolk universities.