Entries from October 2006

October 15, 2006

What is ‘net neutrality’ and why you should defend it

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“Net Neutrality” is basically the freedom of speech for the internet. It means that large companies and internet service providers -ISPs (such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast) cannot control what sites people can view and the capabilities of the pages that you view.
For example, a large ISP may have an investment or [...]

October 8, 2006

DormItem partners with Rapleaf!

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Some of you may have noticed that “rapleaf reputation” graphic in each post. This is a new feature we added to DormItem to increase trust between buyers and sellers. Rapleaf is an open feedback system for across the web, and it allows anyone to rate a person’s email address based on interactions [...]

October 4, 2006

Some “Web 2.0″ sites of interest to college students

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Browsing the internet over the last few weeks, we have compiled of a list of sites that many of you college students may not know about. And then we filtered those millions of sites down into a few places that are actually relevant to college life. Here are some.
Costumzee
Costume ideas and community. [...]