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...this isn't your kids' social network. While Facebook became the darling of Silicon Valley in June 2007 when it created a completely open platform for developers - who quickly launched hundreds of thousands of applications - LinkedIn's plan is to carefully and slowly vet everything that goes onto its platform. "We don't want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very...
...give it up. But there is nothing axiomatic about consumerism in the American ethos. It is, in fact, a relatively recent addition to the American canon of values. Assuming that it is unassailable and that attacking it will doom any environmental program to marginality is to confer more legitimacy onto it than it actually deserves. There is an old Yankee maxim that goes “use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without” At one time, this resourcefulness was a fixture of the American cultural constellation—and there is no reason...
...drawn out of his old neighboring congressional seat in DeLay's mid-decade redistricting power play. Lampson noted his family's roots in the area and his support from veterans groups and the National Rifle Association to win over voters in the 22nd. Now he is battling to hang onto his new seat after being tagged by some national pundits as one of the most vulnerable incumbent Democrats this fall...
...Pizzotti holding onto the ball way too long, gets sacked for loss...
...money is to politicians what kryptonite is to Superman, but Mandelson was given the antidote to his latest exposure by Rothschild. In a startling intervention, Rothschild sent a letter to the Times of London newspaper that instantly moved attention away from Mandelson's links with Deripaska and onto the hapless Osborne. According to Rothschild, Osborne and Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the Tory party, had met with Deripaska and had discussed with him a possible donation to Conservative coffers...