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    Stanford grads to make the world a spammier place

    Stanford professor BJ Fogg and Facebook fanboy extraordinare Dave McClure put on a class this fall for Stanford students interested in building their own Facebook apps. To the likely detriment of all involved, the class turned out to be a rousing success. More »

    10:01 AM on Wed Dec 5 2007
    By Nicholas Carlson
    707 views, 8 comments

    Latest by ScalaWag: @DaveMcClure500Hats: Mutually. IMHO, I like your metric models and pretty sure we could find a concept or two that could remind more »

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    Stanford joins the Facebook application frenzy

    Stanford has hopped aboard the Facebook application bandwagon with a new class: noted developer BJ Fogg and Facebook fanboy Dave McClure (who may not be employed by for Facebook but is awfully busy flacking the company) will be teaching "Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook." Although offered through the computer science department, the course appears more geared to business students. Pupils will be graded based on the number of users they can garner rather than quality of code, and there will be an event at the end of the course to pitch the applications to investors. Is it any surprise Facebook moved to the west coast and that Stanford leads Harvard in incubating technology companies? As VentureBeat notes, while Stanford jumps on the latest tech fad and offers students a chance to strike it rich, Harvard ironically had admonished Facebook's creator Mark Zuckerberg and shut down a precursor to the popular Facebook for privacy violations and political correctness concerns while he was a student.

    11:22 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
    By Tim Faulkner
    1,194 views, 6 comments

    Latest by DanAckermanGreenberg: I'm Dan, the head Course Assistant for the Stanford Facebook class. We've had two great classes so far, and more »

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