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Now that Obama has announced that Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will be his running mate, how would you like to see this (if at all) represented in Like a Candidate? We are looking for feedback from YOU to help shape the application!

Please feel free to provide your thoughts on our application here, or as always send [ ...read more ]

Today we were finally able to find some time and now have added Bob Barr to Like a Candidate. After updating the application we ran the matching algorithm against all users and there are now 92 people that are like Bob Barr! [ ...read more ]

Have you heard that Google and YouTube have announced plans for a major post-convention presidential forum in New Orleans? At this point there has been little coverage on the topic and no confirmation as to which candidates have been invited to attend. In an attempt to ensure all candidates are represented, Like a Candidate has released a Google Gadget to bring awareness to the issue and ensure that Ralph Nader is [ ...read more ]

With the announcement that Ron Paul has dropped out of the presidential race what happens to the people that are most like him?

There were 35 people that had the application installed and were like Ron Paul. Today we removed him from the application and ran the matching algorithm against those affected to see who they are now most like!

Here are the results:

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With the announcement that Hillary has suspended her campaign what happens to the people that are most like her? One of Like a Candidate's main goals was to ensure that our application did not contain an outdated subset of candidates. We have been following the race very carefully and it is now time for us to make our first change to The Candidates and [ ...read more ]

The Like a Candidate website has been released! While users will still need to use the Facebook application to take the quiz and compare to friends there is some new functionality on the website.

Here are some of the features:

• See the current standings of the candidates on Like a Candidate!
• See detailed positions for each c [ ...read more ]

ARLINGTON, VA, May 5, 2008 – Like a Candidate, an application built on the Facebook® platform helps individuals make an informed decision in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, opened for public use on 5 May 2008. The application was created following a realization that there was a need to clarify politics in an engaging, social ecosystem. There were, and still are, numerous political matching quizzes, applications and services. Some of these services are man [ ...read more ]

if you've looked into developing for Facebook, you've hopefully recognized that your first big design decision involves the choice between an iframe style app, and a Facebook Markup Language (FBML) style app. many pros and cons for either can be found in the Facebook documentation and around the net, no need to regurgitate them in depth [ ...read more ]

the title is a bit of a mouthful, but that's the best i could put it. i've been planning the port of my prototype app, Like a Candidate, to Facebook for the last couple days and, naturally, debugging my app as it's called from Facebook was one of my early concerns.

but before i get to the solution, i should explain that i specifically included "fbml" in the title of this post because my solution might not be so involved were i developing an iframe app. [ ...read more ]