Category:News

ThePlaz in often mentioned or interviewed in the news

• Delco News PowerSchool Article
• Teen Inspiration
• Rokenbok: Wired's GeekDad Review (Photographer)
• On Twitter

MIT

• What's it like to study at MIT?, Interview

MIT Dining

• More unrest over new dining plan
• UA seeks to halt new dining plan process In emergency session, students express dissatisfaction at mandatory dining
• Dining evaluation teams conduct site visits
• MIT selects Bon Appétit Management Co. as the House Dining vendor
• Dinner will be served by Bon Appétit
• Video of me on the Meal Plan
• Residential Life staff celebrates new home

MITx/EdX

• MIT to build online education platform
• MIT and Harvard launch a ‘revolution in education’ (pictured)
• The Future of Education President's Symposium Panel Talk

Baker Piano Drop

• 40 years after quirky ritual began, the Piano Drop still strikes a chord at MIT
• WCVB (ABC 5 Boston) Video at 6pm news
• WCVB 11pm video
• Image Gallery (Was front page on Boston.com)
• Washington Post: Quirky MIT tradition draws 200 to watch piano shoved off of dorm rooftop to smash below
• BostInno: MIT Students Gear Up To Drop a Piano From Six Stories Up
• Associated Press: MIT Students Destroy Piano, Mark a Key Moment
• Time Magazine NewsFeed: Watch: MIT’s 40th Annual Piano Drop Is a Smash Hit
• BBC: Students push piano off dormitory roof to mark key day
• Telegraph UK: MIT students hurl piano off university roof
• Pakistan Daily Times: MIT students hurl piano off university roof
• China Post: MIT strikes chord with key moment
• plus over 350 other news outlets

Tecker 911

• Commercial Education blog on Tecker 911 episode 12 (in Spanish) - Translated
• Parody Video

GridView

• GridView: Top 10 Media Facebook apps!
• GridView: A Cool Way To Show Off Your Friends
• Too late to start a new FB app post?
• Interview with me on SJTechZone's OnTheNet #18
• Recognition of Design
• "I love GridView, it is just like photographers and modeling agencies do. It is very neat! I just think it is the neatest looking app in Facebook." -Ramon Maldonado
• "I use it because it has two things that I love to find together: Beauty and Functionality. I love the way it looks on my profile, an it´s sooo helpful when visiting different friends' profiles!" -Ximena Riquelme

ThePlaz.com Praise

• Sam's Praise about my site
• Baron Harkonnen's Thanks
• Thanks for uploading Flickr photos
• Uses Many ThePlaz.com Wiki features
• A Drexel professor told me on the first day of class that I take very good notes and I would graduate suma cum laude from Harvard due to the quality of my notes at Gov School
• Hi I saw your page about that download for the ferris wheel unit for IMP4, I didn't download it but even the info you had on the page helped me out. I have no idea what I'm doing and just started this year- i really get stuck on my homework EVERY night. Right now im working on HW 2 "As the ferris wheel turns" and i have no idea what I'm doing. But i just wanted to say thanks cause I'm gonna download that once I'm farther into the unit!--A Facebook user (J. S.)
• Just wanted to let you know: I stole your headline method of note taking from your website and it is completely saving my life in American Studies. -Rebecca C.
• Hey, you do have one of the best designed websites I have seen lately. Good job. A little flashy, but still functional. --Email comment 8/18/2010

Videos

• Shambhu used my Motorola C261 unboxing video