Take one college-bound student with an overdrawn bank account and one 20-minute brainstorming session on how to raise money to pay for school, and what do you get? A million-dollar idea that’s had people around the world slapping their foreheads and muttering “Why didn’t I think of that?” ever since.

With only one month to go before he was to begin classes at a three-year university–and no money in his bank account–Alex Tew was determined to find a way to avoid student debt. Armed with a notebook and pen, Tew stayed up late one night brainstorming ways to make some quick cash. (more…)

Facebook is undoubtly the most relevant social networking website today. Here is a profile of Mark Zuckerberg, the 24 year old Harvard whizkid that created Facebook.

Programming since sixth grade, he acquired a sensation while he was a Harvard sophomore. Always attractive to affluence the transfer of information between groups, he created an online techno-social that accustomed Harvard students to post profiles, browse or search for fellow students, view uploaded pictures, and share their affiliations and interests. Within two weeks, two-thirds of Harvard students signed up. Three weeks after the February 2004 launch, Zuckerberg opened it up to Columbia, Stanford and Yale; now it’s available to students (and some alumni) at more than 2,100 colleges and universities internationally and 22,000 U.S. high schools. (more…)