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Gel speaker update - Craig Newmark, Geoffrey Canada, Charlie Todd, Marissa Mayer
Several Gel speakers in the news recently...
Long piece on Craig Newmark '06 in New York Magazine, called, appropriately enough, "The Rise of Craigslist and How It's Killing Your Newspaper":
Rocked in a Bay Area cradle of left-wing values, Craigslist has built a huge national community by word of mouth... it gets more than 3 billion page views per month (10 million actual users a month), ranking it seventh on the Net, not so far behind Google and eBay.
Geoffrey Canada '06, founder of Harlem Children's Zone, got an AP article for his work to combat inner-city obesity among schoolkids:
''Getting young people to just try things and keep an open mind about it I think is the challenge,'' he said. ''Because we don't allow outside food in, it allows young people to get naturally hungry. ... Kids don't want apples if they can have candy bars. But an apple when there is no other sweet thing around absolutely tastes good.''
Charlie Todd '05 reports that his latest mission, a "no pants" subway ride in New York, ended with cops getting involved:
"[We were] halted by the cops about halfway through. One frustrated cop freaked out and called in 25 more. 8 [of us] were ticketed and summonsed to court, 6 of the 8 were handcuffed and traveled in a police van to a precinct. Everyone has been released and is fine. More info as it develops."
Marissa Mayer '03 quoted on Google's new music search:
"This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs," Mayer said. "We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could."
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