Posts Tagged with ‘college’

What is the name of the social network slated to be put first to the open markets?
That question has been dogging pundits and investors alike for quite some time. And now we’ve got an answer: Classmates.com.
Yes, Classmates.com. One of the few social networks so fortunate to be born of the Friendster era. The place marketed as the salvage yard for connections lost (and connections never had) among alumni of both elementary schools and collegiate environs. The website that [...]

The latest bits of news to emerge from the mess surrounding P2P file sharing are quite incredible. So much so that we simply couldn’t resist sharing them with you.
One involves a surprising play by an anti-Net-neutrality party against a particular ISP’s unsavory actions. Another has to do with the RIAA and its seriously disturbing efforts to put into law – vicariously through American legislators, of course – a higher education bill (you may view the corresponding PDF here) that will [...]

If you’ve been following Yahoo! developments as of late - including the company’s bout with a US Congressional panel earlier this week concerning its collaboration with Chinese authorities in nabbing reporter/dissident Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment as a result – you might have been surprised about its announcement Tuesday of a preview release of a new college-student-and-alumni-specific professional networking website, dubbed Yahoo! Kickstart.
I myself am puzzled about the debut, particularly as it means Yahoo! [...]

In the spirit of making it an ever more leisurely exercise to go to college without, you know, actually going to college, the University of California at Berkeley has begun “uploading video recordings of course lectures to YouTube.”
What started several years ago with the publication of course syllabi and other electronic documentation, freely available to all who might wish to learn for the sake of learning (I believe the first widely publicized delivery of such material was the debut [...]

CafeScribe is a new service, from Salt Lake City-based Fourteen40, which is aiming to cut down on the amount of books college students must buy, as well as the amount of money that is spent on those books. The site says it offers books at half their retail price, and one-third the cost of used books.
How can they do this? Easy. The service focuses on providing users with a place to buy and download electronic textbooks from the net, which [...]