The political power of Meetup.com
Eight years ago, the secret weapon of Democrat Howard Dean's upstart campaign for president was a little-known website called Meetup.com, which was launched in 2002 to make it easy for people with a common interest to find each other and arrange to meet, face to face.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?i=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?i=esAnAH3y_bU:pmANvfBeaBs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_tech/~4/esAnAH3y_bU" height="1" width="1"/> [More]