We're excited to announce the launch of 10Questions.com, a new kind of online presidential forum, one that aims to make the most of what the internet has to offer to politics. On 10Questions.com anyone will be able to directly pose video questions to the candidates for President and choose which ones they most want answered. Candidates will be able answer in detail and without the time limits imposed by traditional televised or on-stage debates. And citizens in turn will be able to give the candidates feedback on whether they actually answer those questions.

10Questions.com had a very successful launch yesterday. At least 20 of our co-sponsors posted about the launch (link-o-rama below the fold), generating nearly 5,500 unique visits in the first 24 hours (more than half coming between the hours of 7pm and 10pm!). The average visit time was 2.5 minutes and visitors averaged about 2.5 pages per visit. So far we’ve logged about 5,200 votes from about 1,700 voters, from every state, and the rate of multiple vote attempts is down at just 3% of that. We're off and running!

Here are the highlights of our second full day out in the world (October 18): More of our co-sponsors chimed in with posts, and we started getting some solid news stories about 10questions as well. (See below.) Over the course of the day, we had more than 7,100 unique visits, a solid increase over our first day, and average time on the site was nearly 2 minutes, with 2.2 pages/visit. There were 29 videos submitted in all, with a total of nearly 8,500 votes cast from 2,300 voters (up from 4,100 yesterday). In sum, things are going well!

Ten more video questions came in, and we hit a total more than 12,000 votes from just over 3,500 voters. Roughly speaking, that means we’ve been seeing about 4,000 new votes a day and about 1,200 new voters a day. However, Friday’s web traffic was down from earlier in the week, roughly 3,900 unique visits compared to Thursday’s 7,100. The site’s “top videos” page also saw its first shift in leaders, as a question about “warrantless wiretapping” displaced a question about “transparency” as the top question on the site. A number of blogs have been pointing to that question, which no doubt helps explains the shift.

Our first weekend saw about 7,000 unique visits over Saturday and Sunday, bringing 10Questions.com to a total of nearly 24,000 since launch. Among our co-sponsors, the weekend saw big news portals like MSNBC and the New York Times move up in their impact on traffic compared to more partisan blog sites. More details and links after the jump...

The New York Times Editorial Board weighed in with a big statement on their support for 10Questions.com today. Plus, nine more videos were added to 10Questions Monday, bringing the total to 56. We were flirting with hitting 20,000 votes from nearly 5,000 users, and attention was spread widely across the site, with even the least viewed videos earning at least 25 votes. We had about 3,000 unique visits, with top referrers being Hugh Hewitt, MSNBC, Digg, the New York Times, Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Balloon-Juice.com, organic Google search and PoliticsTV.

We’ve been working on tweaking the 10Questions.com site to make it easier for people to find video questions of interest to them. Details on all the new features below...plus our daily roundup of bloggers talking about 10Questions.

Well, we've had quite a weekend, ever since we announced that the top question as of 10am today would be asked of Senator Barack Obama during this afternoon's live MySpace/MTV dialogue at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. Participation on 10Questions.com has surged, with the total number of voters topping 15,000 (that's up about 9,000 from Friday), the total number of votes hitting 46,000 (up 19,000) and the total unique visits for the weekend at 17,000, more than ten times Friday's traffic.

Things calmed down a bit on 10Questions yesterday, after all the MySpace/MTV/Obama attention on Monday, with about 2400 unique visits in all. Videos keep coming in at a healthy pace, and participants added another 2000 votes to the tally. Another promising metric: about one in five of our visitors has been to the site before, which shows that an ongoing community of participants has been forming.

It's halfway through Round One and we’ve tallied more than 53,000 votes from nearly 17,000 participants, and the number of video questions on the site now stands at 142. Plus, we've tweaked the home page to hopefully help return visitors find and vote on more videos. More news after the jump...