Cross Comparing Campus Interest Tag Clouds [IMAGE]
Breaking news! College students nationwide are interested in both music and movies. Yep, it’s true. You heard it here first. When we decided to compare campus interest tag clouds, we knew there would be some common top interests, such as music and movies. But looking past the top interests is where it gets interesting. At […]
A Win For Student Generated Content
Fred Wilson, of A VC, reported on a ruling out of NYC between YouTube and Viacom. Judge Louis Stanton of the Southern District Court in NYC issued his opinion in the long standing legal battle between YouTube and Viacom. This decision means that other user generated content services will not have to make the choice […]
The Best Texters Tend To Be The Best Spellers: Breaking Down Texting Myths [VIDEO]
20000 personal loan no credit check Professor David Crystal is a world renowned linguistic expert and author of 30+ books on the topic. In 31 minutes David dispels five myths surrounding today’s wired youth and the impact on language. The myths he covers are: Myth 1: Youth text messages are littered with mangled abbreviations Myth […]
Newsletter: June 2010
Summer vacation has begun, and the Fall ’10 semester is just a shimmer on the horizon, but the action never stops at the Red Rover Student Directory Headquarters. With new student orientations already underway, we’re seeing a steady increase in Student Directory activity for each institution. Here are a few more things we’re excited about […]
The Student Directory at UW Madison: An Interview With Justin Gong
This fall, Justin Gong will begin his Junior year as a Chemistry Major at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He took a few minutes to tell us about himself, and about the positive impact that the Red Rover Student Directory is having on UW Madison’s campus. Q: How important is social technology in your […]
Newsletter: May 2010
With graduation mostly done and summer just beginning, new student orientation is not far off. That means a whole new crop of students are looking for what to do on campus. It’s the perfect time to ramp up new member recruitment efforts on Red Rover for your campus’ clubs and organizations. Here’s a look at […]
Guiding Principles – Part 3
The following is the third part of our assumptions pulled from our “Guiding Principles” Wikipage. Here is Part 1 and Part 2 Assumptions Part 3: These are broad based and not as set as principles. It’s useful to list assumptions, just to be clear on the thought behind the system. Some of these are more […]
Guiding Principles – Part 1
Our Wikispace reminds me of my over stuffed parents’ attic. Among all the “once cool/relevant but now outdated” stuff are gems that got lost in the noise. In the process of updating a few Wiki pages, I stumbled upon our “Guiding Principles” page and, in rereading, realized it’s well worth exposing to the light once […]
New Feature: Mass Mailing / Export By Tag
One of the goals of the project is to enable relevant communication from the school to the students. Schools, for lack of a better method, end up sending too many emails to everyone. Students learn that emails are rarely relevant, and start ignoring all of them. loan in texas The tag cloud architecture of Red […]
Features and Bugs
A couple of feature improvements: Now when a new leader logs in, they will be prompted in the interface to complete their group. This makes it much easier for them to get their info in. The system will now export sign-in tokens per leader. This allows us to use trackable emails for the leader sign […]