Archive for August, 2008

Online textbook rental

“Think NetFlix® for textbooks,” says Christopher Blythe, Founder of Skoobit, a college textbook rental service. According to Skoobit’s website, here’s how it works:

With two million books in its collection, pricing plans begin at $10.99 per book per month for four months. check out Skoobit’s website for more info.
How interesting do you think this service would [...]


Virtual Real-Time Collaboration

As we increasingly need to collaborate with each other across space and time, getting together with peers and colleagues gets more and more complicated. We’ve got a free tool that might make your life a bit easier: Yugma.
Yugma, whose name in Sanskrit means roughly “the state of togetherness”, is a free web conferencing tool that’s [...]