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...book’s themes is that digital information spreads so explosively that words, once spoken, cannot be retracted. To illustrate the principle, I used Google??s cached version of a Harvard web page. Shortly after his women-in-science speech, former University President Lawrence H. Summers posted a terse public statement on his official Web site. The statement stayed on the site for two days before being replaced, after public protest, with a more apologetic rewrite. A copy of the old statement remained available at Google (click the pale word “cached” below...
...Sciences (FAS) e-mail client, Webmail. In a recent survey, only two percent of undergraduates stated that they were very satisfied with Webmail, compared with 23 percent who reported being very dissatisfied. This widespread discontent has triggered a mass exodus from the Webmail interface to other clients, in particular Google??s free and convenient service, Gmail. In 2008, 58 percent of Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client, up from 38 percent the year before. It’s no surprise that so many students are jumping ship to get on board the Google bandwagon. Webmail...
Facebook, the Harvard-born online networking giant, unveiled a new chat feature Sunday that rivals Google??s popular Gmail chat program. Harvard students said they were ambivalent about the launch, which Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman called on the official Facebook blog “a new way to communicate with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green...
...Class of 2006, has recruited Sandberg, a top Google executive, to help run the social-networking juggernaut. Sandberg will now become Facebook’s chief operating officer. While at Google, Sandberg led Adwords—the advertising unit that accounts for the lion’s share of Google??s annual revenue—and headed the development of Google??s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “Sheryl was a valued member of the Google team and we wish her well in her new endeavors,” a Google spokesperson wrote...
...while this is an important debate, it’s largely one for academics and engineers, who need to hammer out the details of what passes for acceptable network management. But the FCC’s seemingly obsequious effort to reassure Silicon Valley special interests—like Google??that enough fast lanes will be preserved for their latest application is in stark contrast to the war on civil rights and diversity that the FCC has declared of late...