Word: facebooked
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...Allen [of Virginia], or former Senator,” he said. Max Anderson, a workshop panelist and current student at KSG and the Business School, spoke of the “open-source movement,” where campaigns enable individuals to independently endorse candidates through innovative technologies like Facebook, YouTube, and text messaging. Anderson said this will transform the 2008 campaigns. Volpe said this shift will require strategists to “cede some control in order to create a relationship with young voters and let them persuade their friends and their peers in ways which they?...
...Average American”—representative of the country’s culture, attitudes, and practices—may have passed, our compulsion for understanding where we fit within a larger whole does not. If that were the case, why would we spend hours filling our Facebook profiles and blogs with our interests, activities, and plans? Two generations ago, people were telling the same things to the Lynds, Gallup and Roper, and Kinsey.—Reviewer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...over 5,000 of its books. HarperCollins recently installed a similar feature, though both of them are years behind Amazon.com, which has allowed peeks into the titles on its site since 2003. But Random House and HarperCollins have loftier goals than Amazon: they want to bring literature to the Facebook generation. Both publishing houses are introducing tools that will allow readers to export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really...
...Vegas and win your first million. Or lose next year’s tuition money. 9) Be like Leo in “The Departed” and join the family business—you don’t need a Harvard degree to sell crack. 10) Set up Facebook groups for Clinton and Obama and call it campaigning. 11) Play golf all summer long to build up your networking skills. 12) Cruise the Asian-American neighborhoods with your Harvard acceptance letter in tow, and wait for mothers to start throwing money and their kids’ souls...
...Facebook is ubiquitous, but perhaps not universal. Three Harvard students have developed a new social networking site, Vostu.com, that they say will fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca. The Spanish-language interface, publicly launched at the end of February, is intended to help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru...