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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Presidential Campaign 2008 - No it's not too early

One of the two big conversation evils is politics...the other is religion when it comes to confrontation and passion. No one really likes a heated discussion on these two non-starters. However, my family is interesting in that we are both red and blue. Some members actually bleed a bit of their respective colors at times, so passion is a way of life with the Atkinson clan. We are Christian and Jewish, Democrat and Republican and we even have an independent. Call us well balanced.

We love Thanksgiving gatherings and have promised to keep religion and politics off the menu after a family law was passed unanimously. That's a good thing.


So, being a businessman, I am of course politically agnostic...until November 2008. So the following is more of a discussion piece to solicit comments on opportunities.

As co-founder of Talktiva, one of the project [channels] we are working on is politics and their respective campaigns. We want some of that campaign money they spend on mass media to come to Talktiva. We also want to make Obama talk using a virtual Obama voice personality that uses his voice and delivers his message(s) in an interactive conversation. We intend to us advanced speech technologies, the Talktva natural language engine and scripting platform we created to make this all work. This is very cool and has never been done before. Imagine having a two way interactive conversation with the Senator!

These represent design concepts that we plan to present to the DNC and the Obama campaign. Even a surrogate program using George Clooney as the spokesperson for Obama is being considered.

This is untested voice technology and they are understandably nervous about untested technology. But, having said that, there are a lot of new technologies being used these days.

We have all of the top candidates listed here because really, until super Tuesday, February 5th, no one will know who represents the party.

Yes, we have a RNC palate too...I particularly like the "Ask Mitt Anything" photo.

Which designs do you vote for?