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Facebook may take over email Google could be ousted by social media site as largest worldwide provider
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE Facebook may be on the verge of offering email to the 500 million members of its social-networking site, making it the largest email service on the planet. More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of email. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their email services to build them more around people’s social connections. Facebook would have a tremendous advantage, because it owns a vast trove of data about people’s relationships and would find it easier to graft email onto its existing
social services, such as photo-sharing. If it is announced, a Facebook email service would allow its more than 500 million members to communicate with anyone inside or outside the walls of the social network. If they use it, Facebook would leapfrog the 361 million global users of Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail’s 273 million users and Gmail’s 193 million users, according to comScore. However, a Facebook email service would be most remarkable not for the size of its network, but for how it could use its web of social connections to transform one of the oldest — and perhaps still the most important — functions of the Internet.
“There is a huge opportunity for these guys to fundamentally change the nature of email,” said Matt Cain, an analyst for the research firm Gartner who expects Facebook to unveil an external email service Monday. Imagine, Cain said, a Facebook system that could prioritize mail from any external source based on the closeness of your relationship to the sender, or that allows you to easily flip a one-to-one email exchange into a conversation with a group of friends. Facebook now offers an internal message service that is less functional than most Web-based email, and only allows members to communicate with other Facebook
accounts. But Facebook may hope to use a new external email service to capture even more adherents, said Augie Ray, senior analyst for social computing for Forrester Research. Forrester says that while about 90 percent of U.S. adults check email regularly, only 59 percent use social networking tools such as Facebook or Twitter. By adding email to the Internet’s most popular photo-sharing service, smartphone location-sharing service and social gaming site, Facebook would make an even stronger claim as a hub of personal communications, placing FACEBOOK, page 10
Brown baggin’ it for homeless
Graduate students pack lunches for hungry Tucsonans By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Graduate students recognized National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week by making sandwiches for the homeless on Saturday. The National Coalition for the Homeless sponsors the awareness week near Thanksgiving each year. Schools and communities are encouraged to organize events that raise awareness and benefit local organizations. Residents in the La Aldea Graduate and Professional Student Apartments made and donated 300 bagged lunches to Casa Maria, a Catholic organization that provides food, clothing and support services for the poor and homeless. According to Casa Maria, they serve lunch to 600 individuals and give food bags to 200 families each day. La Aldea staff organized the event as one of the hall’s service programs. “The idea is very simple,” said Rebecca Covarrubias, community resident assistant at La Aldea and a psychology graduate student, “it encourages residents to volunteer more.” The event also served to unite the La Aldea HOMELESS, page 5
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From left, Muhammad Al-Khudair and Ksenia Gnevsheva, graduate students, make sandwiches for the homeless with Fenne Grosse, a research scholar, in La Aldea Graduate and Professional Student Apartments on Saturday. Students participating in the event made and donated 300 bagged lunches.
Transgendered community celebrated on campus Pride Alliance, administration organize events for awareness By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA’s fifth annual Transgender Awareness Week brings light to transgender issues on the heels of a new Residence Life gender-inclusive housing initiative. The week includes workshops, plays, movies, forums and resource fairs in order to educate students on a group of the LGTBQ — lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and questioning — community that is maybe not as well understood as others in the community, according to Jennifer Hoefle, director of LGBTQ Affairs in the Dean of Students Office. “What makes this different (than Coming Out Week) is that this week is built around transgender identities,” Hoefle said. “People tend to know less about transgender issues than about gay and lesbian issues.” Jai Smith, student co-director of Pride Alliance and a sociology senior, felt the differences between Coming Out Week and Transgender Awareness Week were distinct and deliberate. “The reason we do a transgender week,” Smith said, “is because: 1) Transgender Awareness Week is something that happens in the Tucson community and bringing some of the events to the U of A campus
Teaching not just tolerance but also acis important and 2) Coming Out Week discusses sexual orientation, but this week dis- ceptance is a feature that LGBTQ Affairs cusses transgender issues and the myriad and Pride Alliance stressed. Smith added of sexual identities that exist. It’s important that although intolerant speech usually tends to discuss sexual orientation, usually to highlight especially gender identity.” A highlight of the gender identity-fo- it is a result of the chosen gender exprescused week is Made for Flight and its ac- sion of those who are attacked. Making more activities accessible to UA companying resource fair, which to Hoefle students is also a feature and Smith, is that makes this year’s one of the Transgender Awareness week’s best Week unique, said events. The Smith. names of peo“For this year, we have ple who have beefed up the quality been killed for of things happening on being transgen— Jennifer Hoefle campus,” Smith said. der are written “Pride Alliance really on kites and Director of LGBTQ Affairs wanted to have things on flown by parin the Dean of Students Office campus. And so, it’s two ticipants durfold. In terms of the stuing the Made dent community, there is for Flight cera greater opportunity to get involved and emony. “It lifts up their names,” Smith said of also it’s a different format and we’re excited to see this format play out.” those honored in the ceremony. Pride Alliance interns, Smith said, were The one-actor play “TransFormations” is also a notable event of the week as a pas- vital in making this year’s week what he sive way to reach out without formality, hopes to be the largest week of its kind ever on campus. Hoefle said. Made for Flight and the resource fair is “Not everyone wants to go to a workshop or a panel and that’s why we kind of built it LGBTQ, page 5 as our keynote production,” Hoefle said.
“People tend to know less about transgender issues than about gay and lesbian issues.”
States studying, banning Four Loko MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Kansas liquor officials are taking a hard look at a strong drink that’s been banned in three states. The drink, called Four Loko, mixes the caffeine of an energy drink and the alcohol content of wine in a 23.5-ounce can that sells for about $2 at local liquor stores. One can contains the alcohol equivalent of a nearly full bottle of wine, combined with the caffeine of three cups of coffee. Michigan and Washington have banned the malt beverage and similar products after reports that the mixture caused blackouts and, in one case, a heart attack, among college-age drinkers. Oklahoma is phasing the drink out of its stores, allowing liquor stores to sell their remaining stock but prohibiting further supplies from being brought into the state. Freda Warfield, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, said Kansas officials have had no reports of incidents related to the beverage. But they are closely monitoring the situation in other states and an ongoing investigation FOUR LOKO, page 10
QUICK HITS Humanities Week Lectures at the UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St., Martin Bresnick, Yale School of Music, will speak at 3 p.m. and Olivier Barrot, French journalist, at 6 p.m.
“Gods (Dioses)” feature film by Josue Mendez, Academy Award winner, at the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center, 4 p.m.
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