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...everyone liked the Pringles can when it first hit the market. "People resented it," says Phil Lempert, founder of supermarketguru.com. Uniform chips didn't jell with 1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur...
...That's what happens when you create a successful platform: a virtuous circle blooms, with a mass of users attracting a horde of developers who build fun or useful stuff, which in turn pulls in even more users. Needless to say, there are some pretty worthless and annoying applications too. At Facebook, app writers' income is derived from advertising based on the number of people who install their programs, and a bunch have adapted in intrusive ways. Facebook has taken flak for applications like FunWall, which made it easy for users to accidentally spam their entire friend lists with...
...pool. All six seniors started (including Snyder) and led the Crimson to a successful finish, besting Connecticut College 9-3.“What possibly is your last game is a tough one to play,” Snyder said. “But we’ve had fun playing together as a class through the years.”—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Alexandra Sneider, and senior Steve Ahn, as well as senior epeeist Teddy Sherrill. “Going into NCAAs, a lot of the pressure was off for the end of the season,” Parker said. “I think people just went, had a lot of fun, worked really hard, and wanted to end on an up note.” With Cross and Ungar returning to join three stellar recruits in the form of both a men’s and a women’s epeeist in addition to a women’s saberist...
...upward trajectory. The late-fall fade represented a slight blip in an otherwise progressive trend—in 2006, the Crimson was 4-13, though 4-3 in conference play. “I think we were all disappointed, but all in all, I thought it was a pretty fun season,” co-captain Devon Shapiro said. Everything was looking up for Harvard after opening the season with a dominating 4-1 start that included a 3-1 victory over conference rival Penn. The Crimson remained unbeaten in Ivy League play heading into a road match against Cornell...