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...Google retaliated last November with OpenSocial, an alliance of Facebook's competitors - MySpace, hi5 and Google's own social network, Orkut, among others - to try to create a write-once, run-anywhere application platform. That means a developer, with only modest tweaking, can build an application that runs across all the major social networks except, of course, Facebook. "When you talk to developers, most of them don't have 50 people; they can't write their applications 50 different ways," Kraus says. "They really want to write their application once and get as much distribution as possible...
...Grassley has not been modest about claiming that his efforts have had an influence in shaping Harvard’s decision, saying that the mere threat of governmental regulation had compelled a “self-correcting” reaction from the top brass in both New Haven and Cambridge...
...Modest about her influence, Spencer frequently lists the names of other Harvard officials when describing her own duties, the word “colleagues” peppering her language...
...efforts, colleagues say she studiously avoids imperiousness. Fellow trustees of Williams College, on whose board she has served for five years, say that Spencer is an exceedingly modest “coalition-builder,” experienced in organizing support in the ego-dominated halls of both Washington and Cambridge...
...Though Rudenstine identified interdisciplinary endeavors as a priority in his capital campaign, he found donor support lacking. In 1999, just six months from the end of his five-year campaign, Harvard had raised only half of its modest $40 million goal for its new stable of cross-school initiatives...