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Fri 11 Nov 2008How Obama spread his net far and wide

The president-elect changed the way elections are run by harnessing the power of the web to build up a vast online community of support, writes Karlin Lillington

NO WONDER US president-elect Barack Obama got the web, and its most cutting-edge social networking technologies, so very, very right.