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...Facebook will change a recently introduced advertising tracking program after 50,000 users signed an online petition and some complained that their holiday shopping purchases were made public without their permission. In an announcement made last week, the popular social networking site said it will now ask for explicit consent before publicizing recent online purchases through the “News Feed,” a function that allows Facebook friends to follow each other’s activities. Before Facebook amended the tracking function, users found their gift ideas spoiled because they had not known to disable the feature...
...federal judge ruled against Facebook Inc. on Friday, denying two emergency motions to force 02138 magazine to take down documents regarding Mark E. Zuckerberg, the company’s founder. The documents—which included Zuckerberg’s Harvard College application, his personal diary, and an e-mail he wrote to the College’s Administrative Board—are evidence in an ongoing court battle between Facebook and ConnectU, a social networking site founded by Harvard students who employed Zuckerberg before he went on to found Facebook. The ConnectU founders allege that Zuckerberg, formerly...
...first-place votes, but achieved 54% (1710/3139) of the final redistributed votes under the instant-runoff system » 3 voters ranked “no candidate” as their first choice and a real candidate as their second choice. » Petersen-Sundquist’s campaign Facebook group achieved 513 Harvard undergraduate members, the most out of any ticket. » 35 student groups officially endorsed a president/vice-president ticket. » 89% of ballots were ultimately influential in the election, due to the instant-runoff system » Campaigns can spend up to $400 of UC-reimbursed money » The election took...
...election, Facebook creator Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, drew an outcry when he endorsed a candidate on the main page of the social networking site, which was confined to only a few schools at the time...
...more important than the platforms, mostly because platforms are comprised of a lot of words, and as an engineering student, I am illiterate. It does not suffice to say that Frances has a strong personality. She is loud, opinionated, and makes enemies faster than an over-eager prefrosh makes Facebook friends. In essence, she is exactly the person that we need to maintain a lively, adversarial relationship with student groups and the college administration. UC meetings would no longer stretch on for hours, decorum would be kept with the help of tasers, and UC skeptics and detractors would vanish...