Announcements

This page lists course announcements, updates, and some emails sent to the students. The most recent ones are also shown on top of the [|home page].

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**Class Final Wrap Up**

 * Breathe a sigh of relief... you're done!
 * For those interested in doing a little bit more, please see the extra credit assignment, due Sunday June 6th.


 * P6, the final deliverable for your project is due by May 27, noon. See the Project_Requirements page for more details.
 * We will be joined by a panel of VCs from Accel and Alloy, among others!
 * We will be having a dinner reception at 5.30p after class, the food will be excellent.
 * The Open-First Contest is due on Sunday- speak with the professor at the reception if you're planning to submit.

**For class 17, Tuesday 25 May 2010, please:**

 * We are lucky enough to have Peter Hirschburg (former head of marketing at Apple) coming to class! Post questions on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution.

**For class 16, Thursday 20 May 2010, please:**
Esther Dyson will be coming to class and share her social data revolution insights. To come up with a question that will be picked, just search the web for some good video interviews with Esther related to our topics, and/or some relevant posts, and/or listen to the mp3 of a conversation on Digital Exhibitionismtwo years ago.
 * Please post before Thursday noon on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution one insightful question you would like her to address. Be bold! Questions are at least as important as answers.
 * DF4- Groupon is due by noon to mse237@gmail.com.

For class 15, Tuesday 18 May 2010, please:

 * P5 for your project is due by May 18, noon. See the Project_Requirements page for more details.

**For class 11, 4 May 2010, please:**

 * P3 for your project is due by May 4, noon. See the project_info page for more details.
 * Begin the Blippy dogfood assignment.

For class 10, 29 Apr 2010, please:

 * Post a single thought about what you learned from Celerity in the thread on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution.
 * Submit your Twitter assignment by noon.

For class 9, 27 Apr 2010, please:

 * P2 for your project is due by Apr 27, noon.
 * Begin the Twitter assignment by requesting whitelisting from Twitter. See the assignment for more information.
 * Post a question for Adam from Celerity in the thread on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution.

For class 8, 22 Apr 2010, please:

 * Sign up for Thursday office hours with Andreas to go over your project proposals.
 * Submit your Bit.ly assignment to mse237@gmail.com by noon, 22 Apr.
 * [|Post a question] for Vipul from Topsy.com in the thread on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution.

For class 6, 15 Apr 2010, please:

 * Follow "socialdata" on Twitter to receive all future announcements.
 * Submit your Delicious recommendation assignment to mse237@gmail.com by noon, 15 Apr.
 * Post a question in the thread for Lars on facebook.com/socialdatarevolution.

For class 5, 13 Apr 2010, please:
> Python Hackathon
 * Submit the Yourversion dogfood assignment via email to mse237@gmail.com by 13APR, noon pst.
 * Begin on the Delicious recommendation assignment. Post any questions in the [|HW2 discussion thread].
 * Hackathon is on Monday 12 Apr tentatively scheduled from 5pm to 7pm. Location is at the Design School Building 550, Studio 1 (its near Terman)
 * Hackathon Slides are here
 * Sign up for a class to edit the wiki . Note: this is a graded assignment, so you have to do it eventually.
 * Add your project team to the Project_Teams page by 11:59p 10APR. If you don't add yourself to this page, we will assume you are dropping the class. If you're having a hard time forming a team, please go to the [|project_team discussion thread].

For class 4, 08 Apr 2010, please:

 * If you've formed a project team, visit the (project-based) wiki page Project_Teams to give your (preliminary) team name, a very short description of the goal and the data, and make sure there is a full list of all team members.Don't panic if you haven't finalized your team yet, we have blocked out a small amount of class time tomorrow to help wrap up the team formation process. Once you have a team, please also enter the name of your team name in column A of the (student-based) goggle spreadsheethttp://bit.ly/mse237projects

For class 3, 06 Apr 2010, please:

 * Fill out your strengths and weaknesses at http://bit.ly/mse237projects to help the formation of the teams
 * Read the 2 articles from The Economist, located at []
 * Post one insight you gained and/or one idea you had reading them at [] and/or comment on another student''s entry there.