Build Your Network By Acobay

May 5, 2009

Do you have Facebook account? I believe that most of you do. If you don’t have, you must be have another social network account such as : multiply, friendster, my space, etc. For me social networking is fun and useful all at once. I was friendster mania, but now i use facebook more frequently. Recently, there is another social networking site which lets you connect with the other by stuff that you buy/use every day.It is Acobay.

It is very easy to join Acobay. Just click on text ‘register’ on the left first line of the page, fill the form and you are the member of Acobay. You will be asked to upload your picture or choose an avatar provided by Acobay. Unfortunately, your picture size is restricted to 80x80 pixel emoticon. If your picture more or less than 80x80, it will be rejected.  I think this is the weakness of Acobay. It is better if Acobay let user upload any pics they like. If the size is too big, Acobay must facilitate user to crop their pics.

How to connect with others by Acobay?  After you are registered, you can share your stuff here. For example, you want to share a place you’ve visited. Click on Stuff Map -> destination. Write your review about the place. Again… i find another weakness of Acobay, our can not upload any video about our stuff.  Pity…  In my view, Acobay will be very interesting if user can upload video about the stuff.

If you are so poor emoticon and do not have anything to share, don’t worry. You can choose any stuff in stuffmap, select the category and add it to you wishlist emoticon. Wishlist is a list of stuff that you want to have.

Acobay is avery good place to promote yor stuff. Yes.. any stuff… If your product is not listed in you can choose  category ‘anything’. If your stuff is blog, Acobay can help you to increase your page rank.

Try to join Acobay !

Course Hero, Free Online Course

Are you college student? Do you need free online course? Course Hero is the answer. 

The most interesting thing is that you can download text book free of charge.
 

The only requirement is to be a full member of this online course. You don’t have to pay anything to be full member. You just have to share study material by uploading the document to the site. It is very easy, right?

Another interesting thing is that you can obtain study material based on college. You can download BIO 320 UT Exam Prep. This is biology exam guide for Texas University students who take Biology course teached by Prof Bushart. Very specific. emoticon

I guess this is the strongest point of this site. The content is generated by user. As the result, unique and specific stuff such as UT University of Texas BIO 320 is created here. This is a very good strategy to generate a valuable and usefull content for user.

Owh yea… Course Hero can be connected to you by Facebook.

I think the creator of Course Hero is trying to applies Wikinomics system : Obtaining money by user generated content and promoting the site by social networking. This is a smart way.

This site will be more attractive if user can upload and download video course material. I guarantee more and more student will be the member of this site.

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