In another dorm room, another social sensation emerges

Could it be the next social media sensation?

Two Harvard sophomores recently launched a website, newsle.com, to help people track friends and celebrities — and to let them compare their Internet “fame’’ to others.

Newsle scours the Internet for names and then uses complex algorithms to determine whether the person is the one you want to know about. In its first six weeks, the site has amassed more than 6,000 users tracking about 2 million people.

Read the full article in the Boston Globe