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JobsUloop in the Ohio State Lantern
The Lantern, Ohio State’s student newspaper, did a nice video piece this week on Uloop. The video featured one of our great campus reps at Ohio State Melissa R.
Currently 1 out of every 5 undergrads at OSU use Uloop to buy and sell textbooks, find housing, jobs, carpools and more.
A Uloop Public Service Announcement
Uloop Campus Rep, Patrick Rucker, an EE major at Georgia Tech, put together a nice PSA for us. Well done Patrick!
Check it out and let us know what you think.
Uloop Swag is Here!!!
We’ve had so many requests for Uloop t-shirts that we’ve decided to make your dreams a reality. We are busy working on so many cool things at Uloop.com that we decided to sell them straight from eBay!’
So get your Uloop swag on and send us pics of your Uloop love.
Uloop in the Nashville Business Journal
Uloop was featured in a story in the Nashville Business Journal by Cynthia Yeldell this month. The article is a good write up on what we’re doing as a company and where we’re headed.
…they believe Uloop will continue to grow and establish a presence on more campuses.
Cleek, who spent five years working for eBay, says he and the other founders - Ryan MacCarthy, Scott Lewis and Mike Ho - saw a void in the marketplace.
Nashville Business Journal - Uloop adding colleges, investors, advertising platform
Uloop - helping to save the world one electronic device at a time…
City on a Hill Press gave Uloop a nice blurb in a recent article. CHP gave some simple suggestions on how to make Earth Day everyday. It’s a good article, check it out. Uloop got a mention in number 9.
9. In fact, don’t throw away any electronics. Each college at UCSC has a program to recycle old cell phones and other electronics. Take advantage of ULoop and get some cash out of it.
City on a Hill Press - 15 Ways to Make Earth Day your Everyday
Lost and Found
As technology progresses it seems like some of our things are getting smaller and smaller. Take for instance the iPod. When the iPod first came out it was like a foot long by 3/4 foot. Now they’re 100 x’s smaller, no wonder students lose these things in droves. Through our research we’ve found that students are losing the smallest things and seeking help from other students on Uloop. The most common items are flash drives, iPods, keys, wallets, phones, meal cards, a French passport, dogs (chihuahuas and cockapoos) and glasses.
Thus we decided to come up with a few ways to help students not lose stuff.
Solutions:
-Buy a retro phone that is 8×4x2 inches
-Camera, don’t you have one of those on your phone?
-Chain your wallet to your person
-Keys (see above)
-Carry a Walkman rather than iPod Nano
-Flash drive, ever heard of paper and pen?
-Laptop, are you kidding me, our folks would kill us if we lost a laptop
-GET A BIGGER DOG!!!
Luckily Uloop is restoring students’ faith in humanity with a lot of found items. What impressed us the most was that the number of lost iPods was almost equal to the number of found iPods on Uloop. The concerning part was there were more found dogs than lost, hmmmm.
Great job students!!! You are the future and we’re proud!
Uloop Inspires!
We always love to hear about how Uloop helps students save money or find a new unsmelly roommate, but this was a first: a song and video singing the praises of our free resource? Justin is a student at UCSB and frequent Uloop user. We are so stoked and more overly impressed with Justin Ratowsky’s talents, what a great singer.
Thanks Justin!
Check out more from Justin on MySpace
Introducing “Conversations”
Let me introduce you to “Conversations”. We listened to your feedback and built a service to help you:
- share and collaborate on class problem sets
- discuss politics or campus news
- ask for advice
- and even share funny conversations you overheard on campus
You can even share videos and photos from around the web, just by pasting the link. (Check it out, there are already tons of hilarious videos)
April Fools’ Day
Today is April Fools’ Day and we hope you have fun! Here are a few of Uloop’s top college pranks:
- Penny the door trick - Push against the locked dorm room door and stick pennies in the cracks, no one will be able to get in or out
- Garbage can full of water - Lean against dorm room door and knock
- Stealing towels in the shower
- Know more? Post your favorite pranks here! (Extra points for videos!)
Class Notes gets some attention from NYU
NYU’s Washington Square News gave us a nod for our class notes section as one of their “6 quirky but useful internet buys“. We’re happy to help, NYU.
We only launched at NYU 2 months ago and with nearly 1 out of 5 NYU students already using Uloop, it’s easy to see how class notes can make a big impact.