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Archive for June, 2011
Editor Josh Quittner Leaves Time Inc For Flipboard
Great move by @Flipboard, my favorite app on the ipad.
Keeping Palestine Cool: A Different Kind of Underground Movement
Great talk at TEDxRamallah.
Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad
“You can’t design one system that does it all.”
Enough of blood and tears
Yitzhak Rabin, speaking in 1993Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred toward you. We, like you, are people — people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, to live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance, and saying again to you, enough. Let us pray that a day will come when we all will say, ‘Farewell to the arms.
Man in the Arena
Theodore RooseveltIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Under The Covers At Katango: Kleiner Perkins’ First sFund Investment
Interested in trying out Katango and seeing how well its algorithms work on my social graph, this could be very useful
How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
Interesting, not sure I totally buy it, but I am sure this was part of it.
Good to remember
Lawrence of ArabiaNothing is written
AdGrok Team Joins Twitter To Help With Revenue
Monetizing the twitter feed is going to be very interesting to watch.
Lina Kara’in: First MEET woman accepted to MIT!
Lina Kara’in
Congratulations to MEET 2010 graduate Lina Kara’in, who became the latest MEET alum to be accepted to MIT. She will join MEET alumni Wissam Jarjoui ‘06 and Saher Ahwal ’08, who are currently completing their degrees at MIT.
Joining Lina in Cambridge next fall may be another 2010 MEET alum, Ala’a Siam, who was also accepted to MIT and is currently deciding between MIT, Stanford University and Princeton University.
Ala’a Siam
Lina wrote this this about her motivations to become an architect and what it means for her to be accepted to MIT:
As a Palestinian woman, my world is characterized by walls and boundaries on one hand and the dreams, curiosity, and determination they foster in me on the other hand. One of my many dreams is to be an architect, to design better, smarter and more creatively, to add something to this world and proudly say: I did that! I want to leave an imprint on my community, and I believe that I do not need to be a politician to make a difference; as an architect I will help shape the way my community lives and thrives.
On the 1st of January 2011, I submitted my MIT application and waited patiently for the decision day, which is called “Pi” day at MIT since it’s on March 14th. The admission decision came out at 3:26 am, and I was so nervous I could barely type my password. I clicked the “Display decision” button and there it was:
“Dear Lina, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2015…”
It was one of the happiest days in my life. I thank all my friends and family for their support and especially the MEET family, for I couldn’t have made it without them. MEET has opened my eyes to a new world of possibilities, a world I didn’t know existed before. MEET allowed me to meet people from different backgrounds and various cultures that I wouldn’t have met otherwise. I’ve learned so much more than computer science and business, I have learned to accept people from diverse backgrounds, to work with them and love each and every one of them. MEET gave me another family and a new home. Last but not least, a special thanks to Anat Binur for her generous assistance, patience, and for sharing her knowledge with me.
Congrats Lina and Ala’a!