FollowThose of you who know me know that I have a keen interest in the Arab world. So, of course I’ve been watching the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (“MENA”) with a mix of curiosity, terror and interest. One of the things that has been most interesting about these revolutions is the spread of information. While Libyans are being killed for contacting outsiders, my Facebook friends were complaining that there was a …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
PleaseMatch.Me’s New Design
I met Wesley Zhao, a current Penn freshman, at an event for newly admitted students in early January. By the end of January, he’d pulled me into a project he began with Ajay Mehta, a friend of his at NYU. They’d begun it a week before I got involved, working with a girl named Sarah Lim. The three of them built a website called PennMatch basically overnight, and it looked like this: In other words, …