Barack Obama Creates Social Networking Site for Presidential Campaign

Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places.

I just registered and created a blog to test the site. Currently the site is very slow with most requests failing, most likely due to its sudden popularity.
Update: The site is now redirecting to https://www.barackobama.com/.

Overall the concept is great to mobilize his troops around his campaign. It also has an campaign funding organizer.

In case you are wondering my.barackobama.com is powered by Apache 2.0.54 (Unix) and PHP 5.0.4.