Word: closedness
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Why Facebook Opened UpThe word platform reached buzzword status a year ago when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of a movement. "Social networks are closed platforms," Zuckerberg told a gathering of about 800 developers in San Francisco. "Today we're going to change all that."
I ask Zuckerberg about the theory that closed, proprietary networks like Facebook could stifle the Net's innovative spirit. That idea is the subject of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, a new book by Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard University's Berkman Center for...
After about two weeks of closed-door negotiations between Pilbeam and then-President of the UC Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the College unfroze the funds, and provided the Council with $100,000 as a show of good faith. And on Nov. 6, a joint e-mail statement...
Fifty years later, in the fall of 2007, Harvard undergraduates beginning their studies of the humanities or social sciences cracked open the works of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, and Michel de Montaigne. Bending the spines of heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont...
A few big victories highlighted the season for the Crimson men’s basketball team, but in the end it was yet another year in which a disappointing Ivy League losing streak crushed any hopes of achieving Harvard’s first conference title. The Crimson’s...