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...information and finding ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created every day, according to blog search engine Technorati) and the proliferation of social-network sites, a growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy, and it is the current obsession of every Web company from Amazon to Yahoo!. Consider...
...Monterrey, Mexico, Gomez enjoys an excellent relationship with the powerful bishop of Mexico City and is a natural conversation partner for legislators toiling over immigration riddles. A long affiliation with the conservative teaching group Opus Dei guarantees him the Vatican's doctrinal confidence and a support and information network leading high up in Rome. Yet despite his orthodoxy, Gomez is a natural conciliator admired for uniting rich and poor and Anglo and Hispanic Catholics behind Denver's Centro Juan Diego, a hybrid Latino religious-instruction and social-services center hailed as a national model...
...network of friends—some of whom greet me with an exuberant “Hi, Maggie” on the streets of Cambridge—was worth far more than sticking hardnosed to all the plans. Maybe my room was used more enthusiastically for a group performance of “The Cha Cha Slide” than any MMM activity I had spent hours planning but I could hardly hold that against them. These were my kids...
Although the application will require students to confirm that they are on campus by using a computer on the Harvard network, Registrar officials acknowledge that crafty students may still be able to circumvent this system to extend their vacations well into late-September...
...There’s virtually no guarantee that someone using [the application] is within the Harvard network,” said Rick Osterberg ’96, a database specialist for FAS Computer Services...