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...name: Matan Shelomi ’09, the 2006 national champion of the Facebook Men’s NCAA tournament pool...
...basketball tournament approaching, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) warned its student athletes and athletic staffs not to join any type of gambling pool. But despite the warning, some student athletes—including at least one Crimson basketball player—have joined March Madness pools on the Facebook. Although the Harvard men’s basketball team will not be playing in the NCAA tournament, rules discouraging gambling on college sports still apply. And while the Facebook pools are free to enter, contestants can win up to $25,000. Winning that money, according to the NCAA, might constitute...
...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...