Spring Break
Putting Your World (Wide Web) On One Page
Kim Hansen
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: News
Just two years ago, Jared Stenquist was a college student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Today, he is chief operating officer of a company that created a Web site to organize student's social and academic worlds online.
The Web site, CampusLIVE, which was launched two weeks ago at UConn, allows students to access features such as Facebook, e-mail, news and Wikipedia on one central page.
The Web site was originally developed by Stenquist and some friends strictly for students on the UMass Amherst campus under the name "ZooMassLinks." Since then, the site has expanded and is now available on multiple campuses - including UConn - under the new, more universal name, CampusLIVE.
CampusLIVE's chief marketing officer Jeff Cassidy and chief technical officer Boris Revsin worked with Stenquist to create the Web site. According to Cassidy, they thought there was a need for the central site because there was no easy access point to all of the Web sites that they visited most often.
"We were tired of getting menus slid under our doors," Cassidy said. They decided to create a site that was "convenient and catered to the needs of college students."
According to Revsin, the Web site is a "one-stop-shop where students can access Facebook, weather, e-mail, news and restaurant information all in one place without having to look everywhere."
The site has changed a lot from the time it was first developed until now. According to the CampusLIVE Web site, this summer Stenquist and his staff "gave up sleep, became addicted to Red Bull & Espresso, and made CampusLIVE into a scalable, dynamic homepage for college students across the country - focused on their campus and community."
The site is currently available at just six schools - UMass Amherst, UConn, George Mason University, Amherst College, Plymouth State University and Hampshire College - but CampusLIVE is looking to expand to many others, including Arizona State University, in the near future.
According to Cassidy, the newest version of the Web site is scalable, meaning that it doesn't take long for new schools to be added.
New improvements are constantly being made to this rapidly growing page.
"Facebook was just added and many new features, including customized links, events, and notes, are coming soon," Revsin said.
CampusLIVE has been receiving e-mails from students all over the country at schools where the site has not yet been launched asking for the site to be brought to their campus.
"That is now our goal - to try to reach out to as many schools as we can that want it," Cassidy said. "UConn was a logical next step for us because it was close to us and had similar demographics to UMass."
Contact Kim Hansen at
Kimberley.Hansen@UConn.edu.
The Web site, CampusLIVE, which was launched two weeks ago at UConn, allows students to access features such as Facebook, e-mail, news and Wikipedia on one central page.
The Web site was originally developed by Stenquist and some friends strictly for students on the UMass Amherst campus under the name "ZooMassLinks." Since then, the site has expanded and is now available on multiple campuses - including UConn - under the new, more universal name, CampusLIVE.
CampusLIVE's chief marketing officer Jeff Cassidy and chief technical officer Boris Revsin worked with Stenquist to create the Web site. According to Cassidy, they thought there was a need for the central site because there was no easy access point to all of the Web sites that they visited most often.
"We were tired of getting menus slid under our doors," Cassidy said. They decided to create a site that was "convenient and catered to the needs of college students."
According to Revsin, the Web site is a "one-stop-shop where students can access Facebook, weather, e-mail, news and restaurant information all in one place without having to look everywhere."
The site has changed a lot from the time it was first developed until now. According to the CampusLIVE Web site, this summer Stenquist and his staff "gave up sleep, became addicted to Red Bull & Espresso, and made CampusLIVE into a scalable, dynamic homepage for college students across the country - focused on their campus and community."
The site is currently available at just six schools - UMass Amherst, UConn, George Mason University, Amherst College, Plymouth State University and Hampshire College - but CampusLIVE is looking to expand to many others, including Arizona State University, in the near future.
According to Cassidy, the newest version of the Web site is scalable, meaning that it doesn't take long for new schools to be added.
New improvements are constantly being made to this rapidly growing page.
"Facebook was just added and many new features, including customized links, events, and notes, are coming soon," Revsin said.
CampusLIVE has been receiving e-mails from students all over the country at schools where the site has not yet been launched asking for the site to be brought to their campus.
"That is now our goal - to try to reach out to as many schools as we can that want it," Cassidy said. "UConn was a logical next step for us because it was close to us and had similar demographics to UMass."
Contact Kim Hansen at
Kimberley.Hansen@UConn.edu.
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Smira Jones
posted 11/24/08 @ 10:07 PM EST
A better site for college students would be www.inkampus.com with tons of features and options available just for college students.
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