‘Separating the men from the boys’ in Government 2.0
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Everyone knows the internet is critical to getting elected nowadays, especially after it played a crucial role in President Obama’s success. But you need to do more than just throw up a Facebook page and a Twitter account, said Obama campaign advisor/Twitter investor Chris Sacca (pictured on the left). At last night’s Startup2Startup event on “Government 2.0,” Sacca told the crowd that politicians shouldn’t just think of online social networking tools as “yet another proxy… Continue Reading
Start-up info wiki TradeVibes gets $900K
Mill River Labs has raised a $900,000 seed round for its start-up information wiki TradeVibes, which just launched in public testing mode.
TradeVibes is far from the only website to offer some kind of company database — read our hot-off-the-press coverage of LinkedIn’s new features, for example — but chief executive David Li’s vision goes beyond creating an information repository. TradeVibes, he says, can become the center of not just business facts, but also debate and… Continue Reading
Facebook to take over Stanford classroom
Facebook, already bulging out of its headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, is now infiltrating Stanford University.
A new course, called Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook will be offered this fall in Stanford’s computer science department.
It intends to help students in computer science, other engineering majors, and in the business school learn how to build and market user-friendly software — using Facebook as a “petri dish,” says Dave McClure (pictured left), a co-instructor… Continue Reading