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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I've been seeing the term "social networking" popping up everywhere ever since Facebook was introduced to our college. At that time we were using the application purely for fun, it seemed. Find your friends, see how many you've got compared with others, and join an inordinate amount of groups. As the technology [...]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
From what I've been able to gather, Jessica Flannery (a co-founder of Kiva) experienced the power of "micro-loans" to help impoverished people create their own business startups and in a way take their lives into their own hands when she was doing various philanthropic projects. Inspired, she parterned with her husband Matt Flannery (a [...]
Tags: Kiva
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Okay, guys, I'll try to get the ball rolling. As I've been researching Facebook, it seems to me like Mark Zuckerberg (founder) was a really fortunate guy. He created a basic social networking application by himself in about two weeks, at a time when people were just realizing how the technology could be [...]
Tags: Beginning of Facebook, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
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