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...think of iGoogle as part of the company's answer to Facebook...
...Facebook rocked Google's world last summer when it opened up its network to software developers and invited them to launch tiny applications there. The apps (also known elsewhere as widgets and gadgets) were fun and allowed people to communicate better or just horse around. Because there was more to do there, people started joining Facebook in big numbers, to play Scrabulous, write on walls and fling stuff at each other. The population quickly surpassed 50 million users - and that, in turn, created a great and wonderful market for software developers to build even more apps. With minimal work, developers...
...What Facebook did is known in the tech business as creating a "platform." It's a way for Facebook to make a marketplace that enables others to get rich - and the richer they get, the richer Facebook gets. There are many examples of platform building in Techland, but the most famous was Microsoft, whose Windows platform really took off with third-party software developers...
...Jade M. Reichling ’09, one of Junior Bar’s founders. “Senior Bar is to reconnect with all the seniors. Why wait until senior year when we can do more reconnecting and bonding starting junior year?“ Largely organized by Facebook, Junior Bar encourages juniors—although students not in the Class of 2009 are also welcome—to go to bars for a bit of revelry on particular nights. “We’re trying to standardize it so people know where to go and find...
...over the last year has become a committed Obama activist, helping to recruit hundreds of volunteers and spread his candidate's message. In February 2007, Warner's wife prodded him to read Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Soon he was logging onto www.barackobama.com and creating a Facebook-like page, hoping to connect with nearby Obamanistas. There were few, so he set up a site on the campaign's homepage for local union workers, and another one for any South Bend resident...