Comments on: Facebook Class: Sealed with a Kiss(Me)

By: Richard John (CEO)

Richard John (CEO) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:32:13 +0000

What a great story! I applaud the talents behind the talent! Kiss Me is good move! Much success to ya!

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:03:02 +0000

btw, to be accurate, what i said was: "this MAY be the last class you ever take..."

while that might be a bit optimistic / enthusiastic, it's possible a few folks may take that route. probably not a majority decision tho.

dave "don't want to piss off the faculty if i ever want to be a real perfesser" mcclure

By: nordsieck

nordsieck — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:25:35 +0000

Ryan:

Facebook is merely a tool with which to teach rapid development and business skills

By: matt brezina

matt brezina — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:49:47 +0000

I think this says more about Stanford than anything else. The FB platform has been open < 6 months and Stanford already has this class put together. I love when innovation wins over bureaucracy.

“This will be the last class you ever take.”

That would have sent chills down my back had I been sitting in that class.

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:45:58 +0000

@ryan: umm, yeah.

if/when you’re ready to place a public wager on that statement, let me know… i’m not above stealing lunch money from children.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:07:41 +0000

I thought that universities were supposed to teach timeless concepts and theory. Social networks are a fad people! Facebook will be a dead horse in 5 years.

By: Dan Ackerman Greenberg

Dan Ackerman Greenberg — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:31:25 +0000

You’re definitely right - it looks like we’ll get to take our lessons/insights from this class on FB platform and expand to OpenSocial for next quarter’s class!

This is really exciting stuff, and we’re in the right place to start learning about/understanding it, from the inside out.

Dan
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By: ActionsTa!k.com » Blog Archive » Stanford University: CS377W: Creating Engaging Facebook Apps.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:06:56 +0000

[...] Malik wrote a post about the recent applications release by the class on his blog GigaOm. The most used/downloaded application is called KissMe. This application gives one the ability to [...]

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:38:50 +0000

Why couldn’t classes be this interesting when I was in undergrad? Maybe I’ll got back.
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