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Interested in talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology. She told me people are not only uninterested in Skype, we're also not interested in talking on the regular phone. We want to...
“With their leadership, the involvement of other interested faculty, and community input, this could really lay the foundation for a much better way forward than what we’ve been looking at in the recent past,” Mattison said.
That's the basis of Foursquare, the gorilla in a new wave of location-based social-networking sites. While sites like Facebook and Twitter are interested in what you're doing, Foursquare is more interested in where you're doing it - and using different ways to reward you for checking...
But Foursquare has some heady problems to face before reaching critical mass. There's competition from a slew of similar sites, including Google Latitude (reborn from the wreckage of Dodgeball) and Gowalla, and there are rampant rumors that both Facebook and Twitter are interested in figuring out new ways to...
Fitzsimmons also noted that the number of applications from students interested in engineering, physical sciences, and computer science increased by a greater margin than did applications as a whole. He noted that there has been "quite a bit of interest" in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which was...