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I’m looking for a technical partner.

March 20th, 2007 by CM

I’m looking for a technical co-founder to support CollegeMedium as we progress to higher levels. We are willing to admitt one talented and fiercely motivated individual to the team. CollegeMedium is a portal which connects college students in a specific university with each other, with businesses within their community, and with students from other schools within close proximity and we intend to do this in very neat ways ;-)
At the risk of using clichés, I must state that to be considered, individuals have to be passionate and highly motivated. Requirements include:

• 4+ years JavaScript/HTML/CSS (”AJAX”) experience.
• Excellent coding skills. Able to write clear, concise reference code.
• Experience developing JavaScript/DHTML/PHP applications.
• Experience developing web services.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Understanding of the maps space.
• Previous experience integrating wiki based systems, marketplaces, social networks, and/or other solid    Web 2.0 experience a plus.

• Experience leading a small team or developers/designers and interfacing with non-technical peopleÂ

The selected individual will be a bona-fide owner with all the rights as the original founders. Those interested please contact misc (at) collegemedium.com. I wouldnt mind providing more details on our project.

In addition, there is a strong possibility of gaining invaluable entrepreneurship experience with a reputable startup incubator.

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Advertising on CollegeMedium.com:: A novel approach

March 17th, 2007 by CM

The past few months we’ve been inundated with numerous requests from
people interested in advertising on CollegeMedium.

While certainly flattered by such requests, we politely turned them down because our intent is to preserve the user experience without the annoyance of irrelevant ads. We decided that we would open our doors directly to advertisers if, and only if, we could build a system to
give exceptional value to both advertisers and our loyal users, without compromising the integrity of the website.

That said, it is with great pleasure-and reserved pride-that we bring to you the world’s first self-serve Micro Targeted ad system. Allow me to explain.

Our revolutionary advertising system allows you to place two types of ads on CollegeMedium

1.Micro Targeted ads - (my favorite) this is by far the best way to advertise on CollegeMedium. We’ve allowed advertisers to target those specific pages on CollegeMedium which are directly relevant to their product or service. For example, a car dealership close to Georgia Tech’s campus would simply come to CollegeMedium.com, place an ad on the Georgia
Tech Page, in the For Sale section and lastly target it specifically to the Cars Trucks page. Now Georgia Tech students that are interested in buying or selling a car will be immediately shown that ad when visiting the Cars/Trucks page. Highly relevant and targeted. Brilliant!!!!

Now I know what you are wondering. You are thinking, “What if I don’t care to target my ad? What if I want EVERYONE WHO VISITS THE SITE TO VIEW MY AD?” Well, Chill out, there is no need for all caps here. No worries, we considered that too, which is why we have:

2.National Ads - An advertiser will select this type of ad if there is no need to specify a geographic region. Simply put, your ad will be displayed on the Homepage and non-targeted pages of every school on CollegeMedium. This is, in essence, a high impression, low relevance ad
spot.

You are probably wondering how much this all costs. You probably think it costs a fortune to get a targeted ad, or to get a National ad we take your kidney and your first born child. Well, I am proud to announce that you can get $3,000 views (impressions) under both types of ads for only $5 bucks. Yep, $5 bucks. For those of you who read my blog regularly, this
should come as no surprise to you. You should recall my thoughs about
allowing small businesses to compete.

 So what are you waiting for? Test out our revolutionary ad system here! Use it, and as is always the case, please let us know how we can make it even better.

You think you know, but you have NO IDEA! More new and exciting things
coming very soon ;-)

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