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...watch the video of the speech, as I did, by Googling the name of the developers' conference, "F8." What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers. Anyone who knew how to write applications for Facebook was invited in. Andreessen says an open-coding environment is key to any successful platform because the easier it is to use, the more developers will be drawn to it, making the platform that much more powerful. Facebook also gave developers free distribution. Users who want...
Unlike past Class Day addresses from funnymen Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke’s speech came with an unexpected bonus—academic citations...
...speech, delivered to a crowd in Tercentenary Theatre thinned by the day’s rain, focused on the similarities and differences between the U.S. economy in the mid-1970s and today, specifically with regard to energy and productivity...
...don’t try to do what you love—whether it is painting or biology or finance—if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it,” Faust says in the speech...
Staying true to Harvard’s team mentality, a gracious and teary-eyed Vaillancourt remarked on the larger context of her achievement following her acceptance speech...