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...upset the search engine apple cart, especially one so top-heavy with the reigning four engines. Although I remember saying exactly that back in the late '90s when I heard about a couple of Stanford grads who planned to displace the top engines of the time with their new creation. "Google? Who is going to use a search engine named Google...
...smartest thing would be for the majors to collaborate on creation of the ultimate digital-distribution hub, a place where every band can sell its wares at a price point of its choosing. Apple's iTunes, despite its current dominance, is vulnerable. Consumers dislike its incompatibility with other music services, and the labels are rebelling against its insistence on controlling prices. (Universal Music, the largest label in the world, has declined to sign a long-term deal with iTunes.) "There's real urgency for the labels to get together and figure this out," says Rick Rubin, the Grammy-winning producer...
...mind. Hence our elation that University President Drew G. Faust has decided to create a University-wide social sciences task force to promote greater integration among Harvard’s far-flung social-science resources. Faust told The Crimson that she hopes this will encourage collaboration and foster the creation of a “support system” for social scientists. This is not the first time in recent years that the University has responded to the increased importance of interdisciplinary study in academia by reevaluating its structure of decentralized departments and schools. Indeed, the planned committee is modeled...
...written by Harvard professors in traditional scholarly journals available online for free. The measure, advanced last week, proposes creating Harvard’s very own online system of open access, where professors could put their work online at no cost, either on a personal or university Web site. The creation of the open access system, however, would bear little fruit without professor participation. Though the proposed system would be “opt-out,” we encourage all professors to participate in this system, and further, urge Harvard to centralize every article in an organized, online database...
...garde works of art.” Besides describing the site’s users, “The Facebook Book” also recounts tales and urban legends surrounding the site’s founding. Lushing’s favorite story details that Zuckerberg’s original creation, a program called “Face Mash,” which collected pictures of students and allowed others to rate them as “hot or not.” But when administrators discovered the site, Zuckerberg was asked to change the premise to something more appropriate. After...