Re: UKNM: Students net 10 million

[Dee Edwards]

Is this a joke?!? Or did BBC News link to the wrong

site?


To start with I was quite surprised that they only had

20,000 users a week, considering that the student

market is one with extremely high Internet

penetration. Then I went to the home page (Flash) - do

university CS depts allow users to install software on

the public access machines? This, combined with

Nottingham being the only live section, probably

explains the 20,000.


Most of the site is information, I looked for the

'guide to accommodation, going out, shopping and

college courses', then realised that 'guide' should be

used in the loosest possible sense. I can't see much

value to the average student that you don't get in a

booklet from the Student Union on your first day.

There's no clever use of community, business model or

anything really.


Some American businessmen got fleeced, but hey isn't

Nottingham the place with five times as many women as

men? But fair play, 10 million at 22, they can spend

the money on doing something that really uses digital

media to make a difference.  But somehow I doubt it

;-)


Dee



--- Jo Chipchase <

jocan-u-hack-it [dot] com

> wrote:

 > Robin Edwards wrote:

 > 

 >

 >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_618000/618268.stm

 >  >

 >  >Please tell me I am dreaming this.

 > 

 > Blimey.  Their company is actually breaking even.

 > 

 > But... after reading the article, what I want to

 > know is: when on earth do 

 > students ever use the words "digs" !?

 > 

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