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After 30 proposals in the first round, closet Facebook stalkers delighted in the idea of more online social networking tools, while starry-eyed idealists rejoiced over non-profit organization schemes. And for the chocoholics, David B. Belanger ’09 appealed to their sweet tooth with his cornerless brownie rotisserie. “It’s a cylinder that rotates in your oven so that there are no corners,” he described to the chuckling onlookers...
...this isn't your kids' social network. While Facebook became the darling of Silicon Valley in June 2007 when it created a completely open platform for developers - who quickly launched hundreds of thousands of applications - LinkedIn's plan is to carefully and slowly vet everything that goes onto its platform. "We don't want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very...
Compare, for instance, how apps spread on Facebook: When a user installs an application, that action is communicated to his friends via a news feed. That won't happen on LinkedIn. And likewise, if you recommend a book to one of your LinkedIn contacts via the "Reading List by Amazon" application, the contact doesn't need to install the Amazon app to get the recommendation...
Putting the users ahead of the developers is a smart play. It'll be riveting to see whether this approach ultimately trumps Facebook's open platform...
...choosing to wear a green shirt and jeans because “Peter’s favorite color was green, and he loved when I would wear this green shirt.” Li described seeking out Cai even before meeting him. “I confess that I Facebook-friended him before freshman year because I thought he was cute,” Li said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. The pair started going out during their first year at Harvard. Li said that their first official date was in downtown Boston, where they went ice skating...