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...asked Google how much traffic the chrome tulips drove to iGoogle, but a company spokesperson declined to comment, saying only that Google had received "positive feedback" from users. She said that iGoogle currently accounts for 20 percent of visits to Google's home page - a proportion, I bet, that Google would love to reverse. The spokesperson also declined to address any link between iGoogle and OpenSocial, noting only that "we recently launched an iGoogle sandbox to developers, which gives developers the ability to build more interactive gadgets that can incorporate OpenSocial." Indeed, you can find more than 75,000 "gadgets...
...women under 30 to donate $30 in 30 days—and to get each woman to recruit another 30 students to the cause. The money will go to the construction of a school for women in Afghanistan, where the female literacy rate is just 12 percent. “Our mission is two pronged,” says Circle co-founder Cristina M. Ros ’08. “Part of it is awareness-raising and part of it is fundraising.” Having already collected half of the $115,000 need to finish the project...
...Another Harvard Square business going unnoticed and feeling the pinch of construction on their profits is Crimson Corner, a magazine stand adjacent to Cardullo’s. Its owner, Chris Kotelly, echoed Welcome’s claim: “I would say business is off 25 to 30 percent since they started construction,” he said. Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that Cambridge is making an effort to aid ailing businesses during construction. In addition to posting signs encouraging customers to support stores in the area, “the city...
Amid a week of Earth Day celebrations, the Undergraduate Council endorsed one of the University’s efforts to work toward a greener Harvard. On Sunday night the UC passed a resolution encouraging a switch to 30 percent recycled paper. The legislation joins an ongoing effort by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) for all the University’s departments to start purchasing recycled paper. “Thirty percent recycled paper is great because it’s reducing the amount of trees you have to harvest,” said Philip W. Kreycik...
...preliminary scorecard on HUDS shows promising steps in produce—with up to 40 percent of HUDS’ fruits and vegetables in the fall now locally grown at farms like Wards Berry—and in processed foods, with HUDS the first college nationally to go trans fat free...