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...Over the next three or four or five years, this stuff is going to reach a much larger number of people," says Marc Andreessen, whose Netscape browser helped launch the first age of the Internet as a mainstream phenomenon. "It's just getting started." Andreessen describes Facebook as akin to AOL in the 1990s--introducing tens of millions of beginners to a new form of communication. As a co-founder of Ning, a maker of customized social networks, he's betting that many users will eventually tire of the one-size-fits-most approach. But he hastens to add that...
...spirited debate stems from the new rules set out by the Corporate Royalty Board this March. Previously, under a bill approved five years ago by Congress, small webcasters paid out royalty fees relative to their own revenues. Larger profits meant larger payments. But starting July 15, webcasters would be forced to pay increased flat rates (retroactive to the beginning of 2006) over the next three years for every performance of every song played on their streams. Additionally, each Internet radio station would have to pay a $500 fee per channel to SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty fees, a provision...
...summer, not everyone has air conditioning or access to air conditioning, so the impact of extreme hot weather is much larger,” Medina-Ramon said, “especially in more populated cities...
...that end, then-Currier co-House Master Patricia O'Brien was appointed to serve as Gross's deputy dean of the College, handling the administrative details of the College as Gross focused on larger-scale academic and residential concerns. O'Brien served as deputy dean until last July, when she was forced to step down from her position after losing the support of interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...chairman Kazuo Shii. That principled stance earned the respect of many Japanese after the war ended, and JCP members were allowed to run for office. Though the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would come to control Japanese politics, the JCP provided a reliable leftist opposition bloc with the larger and more mainstream Japan Socialist Party...