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...founder Dennis Crowley says Foursquare counts on users' becoming protective of their little territories. Foursquare is birthed from Crowley's previous effort, a now defunct site called Dodgeball that was bought by Google in 2005 but stuggled to expand beyond a few thousand users. Dodgeball had the map part but lacked the game, and when Crowley left Google in 2007, he tried to figure out how to make his next effort more fun. "Once we started resurrecting Dodgeball, we thought adding game mechanics might make it something really interesting," Crowley says. "And it really took off and became sticky with...
Stern, the U.S. climate envoy, was quick to reassure the audience at the U.N. that the Obama Administration remained behind a climate bill. "There will be a significant effort on the part of all in the Administration to press forward," he said. "The President is focused on it, and the White House is focused on it." Obama will have to be. As the exhausting experience at Copenhagen showed, climate policy is not for the faint of heart...
...We’ve been putting a large effort into how Harvard presents itself online,” Hewitt said...
Nearly 50,000 people may have been killed by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, according to Haiti Red Cross’ most recent estimates. We at FlyBy are saddened by this tragedy, and we hope for only the best as the relief effort continues...
...negotiated with the pro-business FDP and the CDU's sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), following her victory in last September's elections. But holding the coalition together is proving to be a challenge given the policy differences, competing egos and vested interests involved. In an effort to try to iron out the partners' differences, the leaders of all three parties will meet for dinner on Jan. 17 to discuss a host of issues: tax cuts, health care reform, Afghanistan - and the future direction of the government. Merkel is sure to be hoping that a consensus...