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What’s the number one issue that ElectNext users decline to take a stand on? Energy followed by foreign policy, according to the startup’s blog. The data is based on what percentage of questions users skipped an issue. Check out ElectNext’s blog for more election analysis.
In other ElectNext news, read the story of how the startup was founded over at BusinessWeek. Also check out ElectNext CEO Keya Dannenbaum‘s opinion piece on DailyMuse about how targeted marketing is bad for governments.
Get more election analysis from local startups over at Monetate‘s engineering blog. Turns out Pinterest users are really into Romney (also see: Ann Romney’s huge on Pinterest, according to Curalate) and Chrome users are more likely to vote for Obama.
GIVE A GLANCE
DuckDuckGo pushes on with its experiments to see how skewed Google results are depending on your previous searches. Find the latest results here. The Wall Street Journal did its own study and found similar results.
Check out how Conshohocken’s Monetate handled Hurricane Sandy in this feature from FastCompany.
MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME
Curalate CEO Apu Gupta has a Q&A over at CassandraDaily, in which he reveals that he loves startup Happy Socks “for giving [his] feet flair.”
Kwelia is busy pitching, according to a tweet. The real estate data startup was pitching for NestGSV, a Silicon Valley incubator.
Metalayer CEO Jon Gosier gets featured in AfriCulture and talks about his earlier venture, Appfrica, that was eventually combined with Metalayer.
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