Andrew LaVallee

Viddyhos, Pirates, Whopper Sacrifices

Why is it so hard for me to keep this site updated, when I blog and Twitter at work all day long? A brief sampling, more of which can be found on my clips page: ViddyHo, Yelp, Facebook, Pirate Bay, Apple, Twittering advertisers during the Super Bowl, Caribou’s jab at Starbucks, Yahoo and Google earnings, [...]

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Wed, February 25 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

The role of #votereport, iReport and other sites on Election Day

Ira Socol noticed election workers at his polling place in Holland, Mich., Tuesday telling voters the address on their ID card had to match the one on their voter registration. Otherwise, they couldn’t use the voting machines.
The 52-year-old doctoral student believed this discouraged some from his low-income district from voting.
In Birmingham, Ala., Joy Heard, a [...]

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Wed, November 5 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

At Some Schools, Facebook Evolves From Time Waster to Academic Study

As recent graduates, several of Hung Truong’s classmates will be headed for typical next steps in their technology careers: working as programmers or pursuing master’s degrees in computer science.
But the 23-year-old, who received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico, instead plans to study the growth of social-networking sites like Facebook and why [...]

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Tue, May 29 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off

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