<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Our blog has a new post: "NYTimes article: The Socializr"</div><div><br></div><div>View the post and leave a comment here: </div><div><a href="https://webpub.mit.edu/2009/01/nytimes-article-the-socializr/">https://webpub.mit.edu/2009/01/nytimes-article-the-socializr/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Or if you don't have certs, go to </div><div><a href="http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/01/nytimes-article-the-socializr/">http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/01/nytimes-article-the-socializr/</a></div><div><br></div><div>See you online!</div><div>Lisa</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>The Socializr: A night out with Jonathan Abrams</div><div>The article is mostly about Jonathan Abrams, the serial entrepreneur who founded Friendster in 2002, and Socializr, a site devoted to optimizing users’ social calendars. I mostly found it interesting because it mentioned some newish Web enterprises I hadn’t heard of yet. Check them out: </div><div><br></div><div> * Dropbox</div><div> * Disqus</div><div> * Justin.tv (this one i remember from when it was just a kid wearing a tv camera on his head and streaming the feed, but its grown alot since then)</div><div> * Scribd</div><div> * Snaptalent (relaunching in Feb ‘09, read more about them on TechCrunch)</div><div> * Livemeeting</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Lisa C. Mayer</div><div>MIT IS&T - DCAD </div><div><div>Web and Database Consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</a></div><div>ph: 617-452-4225</div><div>fax: 617-258-6875</div><div><br></div><div><div>____________________</div><div><div> </div><div>IS&T IT staff will *NEVER* send you email requesting your password information. Please ignore any email messages that claim to require you to provide such information.</div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>