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...been taught to try to do the right thing, but you may find it's now harder to know what that is. We taught you not to tattle; now the honor code requires you to. We told you to listen to your teachers; now we'll say that you also have to think for yourself. You've learned the game of baseball, but now the field is 50% bigger and pitchers can be called for balking. It's a subjective application of a subjective rule. Get used...
...developer started writing simple applications. As of June 1, some 24,000 programs - ranging from simple social gestures, like the ability to virtually poke a friend, to fully formed games like Scrabulous - were available to Facebook's users. Expect loads more. Facebook has given out its API keys - the code that developers need to access Facebook's platform-an astounding 400,000 times, many more than even Zuckerberg expected...
...fact, last month Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, which would allow users to take their contact lists with them to websites that add a snippet of code. Over time, it will be possible for, say, a blog owner to embed a Facebook-style "wall" on his or her site, which would allow one to read only the comments scrawled there by friends. It's a very cool idea. Facebook everywhere! But there's only one problem. A few days after Facebook Connect was announced, Google launched a nearly identical plan called ... Friend Connect. And if there's anything that could slow...
...Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says developers have so far written more than 1,800 applications, which could be distributed on a Google site arranged according to popularity, as YouTube is. "There's some pretty innovative stuff there," Rubin explains. "This is merging the handset and the Web and coming...
...Harvard University president to speak to them and neglect to mention that the program is in violation of our anti-discrimination code would be a great omission and a real shame,” said Zafran, who collaborated with his Republican counterparts in April on an Undergraduate Council resolution designed to increase recognition for ROTC...