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...ancient China, a pudgy young panda named Po (voiced by Jack Black) dreams of "legends full of legendary warriors whose exploits are the stuff of legends." In these Technicolor daydreams, even the legendary Furious Five are no match for a panda's bodacity. In real life, or as real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is a clumsy doofus, for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning. He has the doughy shape, the domineering amiability and, ultimately, the demented perseverance of an ursine Michael Moore. And Po's job is not to defeat mythical miscreants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...That's what happens when you create a successful platform: a virtuous circle blooms, with a mass of users attracting a horde of developers who build fun or useful stuff, which in turn pulls in even more users. Needless to say, there are some pretty worthless and annoying applications too. At Facebook, app writers' income is derived from advertising based on the number of people who install their programs, and a bunch have adapted in intrusive ways. Facebook has taken flak for applications like FunWall, which made it easy for users to accidentally spam their entire friend lists with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the New Internet? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says developers have so far written more than 1,800 applications, which could be distributed on a Google site arranged according to popularity, as YouTube is. "There's some pretty innovative stuff there," Rubin explains. "This is merging the handset and the Web and coming up with something completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the New Internet? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...fame. The people who I cared about knew who I was. If Gossip Geek was going to ignore my antics, there was nothing to do but revel in my obscurity. After all, if you’re famous, it’s much harder to get away with stuff like stealing teabags from the dining hall. Besides, most of the so-called celebrities at Harvard were more infamous than famous and were forgotten about by the time a new shopping period rolls around. In the immortal words of somebody great, “Fame is a matter of dying...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura | Title: Aiming for the A-List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...there for your first time and get the mark that matters for the postseason,” co-captain Brian Holmquest said. “If you’re there that early in the season, [it] just shows how you’ll be up to good stuff.” “I’ve always been a big believer that if you run the race to win the race, the time will take care of itself,” Saretsky added. “In Dan’s case, the time just took care...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Illinois Native Displays Grit, Talent in First Season | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

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