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New Year, New Site Features

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Happy New Year! Returning users of sharenotes.com will have noticed that the site was relaunched with a new look and feel brand new for 2010. What you may not have noticed is that we improved not only how the site looks, but also how it works. We’ve revamped the site to allow you to really take hold of the power of college lecture note sharing. Create custom urls for your content, build points through referrals, improved search-ability, highest commission return on a note sharing site, direct payments and more.

Now when you sign up for sharenotes.com you can create a customized url specific to you and your notes. This way you can market your notes and direct link fellow students to your content. Whether you share your notes for a profit or out of the kindness of your heart, it’s never been easier to find, share, link and market your quality lecture notes.

You can accelerate your credits by referring your fellow students to sharenotes.com. Your referrals will be directly linked to your profile which in turn will earn you credits. Credits that you can cash in for great prizes, that’s our way of thanking our users for their loyalty.

Many people use sharenotes.com as a tool to bolster their existing lecture notes and study materials. We’ve increased our search functionality so that it’s easier to find the specific notes you need. Don’t waste all day looking for study materials, in just a couple of clicks you’ll be downloading the material you are looking for.

For those of you looking to make some money through sharing your quality lecture notes, we’ve improved the way we offer our payouts. In the past we’ve used online payment portals which take a portion of your transaction above and beyond the commissions of sharenotes.com. Now we offer direct payments through our site. You share your notes and set your prices all transactions will be tracked and accrued through your profile. Cash in your accrued balance anytime, day or night and a check will be generated and send out right away. Because sharenotes.com takes the smallest commission of any note sharing, you make a full 90% profit on every transaction.

sharenotes.com is not just about notes. We’re also a useful resource for college students to inform themselves about campuses throughout North America. We have information (tuition, location, campus, students etc…) on every college in the US and Canada. Prepping for school, looking to transfer or just curious about your own school? We’ve got the information you are looking for.

We hope you’ll like the changes we’ve made. If you have comments about our new look and features, please feel free to leave your comments below and let us know how we’re doing. We want sharenotes.com to be a place where students come together to share knowledge, keep current on college related news, pocket some extra income and ultimately help each other graduate. We’re constantly running new contests and promotions as a way to say thanks to all our loyal users. Most of you know about our now famous iPod giveaways, well we’ve raised the stakes and are currently giving away 5 Macbook Air laptops. First Mp3 players, now computers? Who knows where we’ll take it next? Click Hereto view and home page and learn how you might win a Macbook Air

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The Results of Black Friday

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Those of us on sharenotes.com are probably watching the economy a lot closer than a college student probably should. But our future livelihoods depend on it. After the number have been crunched from the big sales weekend it seems as though things turned out okay.

I will say this, at least we did not crash and burn. I would have put money in Vegas on the fact that people just aren’t going to spend, but as it turns out, Black Friday just about broke even. People we’re out in droves… I was out there too so I know first hand but it seems as though people avoided impulse buys that often happen in a strong economy. They did however come out for the deals, which were a plenty. I personally bought a whole bunch of super cheap BluRay discs which is just about all I could afford to spend. It also doesn’t help that they were all for me and I still have a xmas list to fill.

Better news however was that “Cyber Monday” the newly founded tradition of online sales the Monday following Thanksgiving was pretty strong. The sales were up about 20% from last years sales. The economy shows signs of life. Much of the online sales are driven by the tech savvy college aged group who often favor buying online to fighting the crowds. Akamai a internet monitoring site, watched 270 retail sites and reported 4.3 million visitors per minute at on point during the day! I think in the coming years Cyber Monday is going to continue to grow under the clicking right hands of college students.

Hopefully this uptick in online sales is an indicator that our economy might be able to survive this holiday season. Free shipping and blow out deals with major retailers helps, but the shear fact that Americans are still willing to get out there and spend money at all is encouraging. So how about you sharenotes.com, did you get out there and hit the stores? Did you hit the online sales? Did you put what little money you have into some drinks to drown your sorrows? We want to hear form you! Leave your comments below and share you tales of mall crowds or killer deals!

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UC Schools rocked by tuition hike

Friday, November 20th, 2009

This increase will effect quite a number of students on sharenotes.com. The Board of Regents, the governing body of the UC system of public schools in California voted today to allow a 32% tuition hike which will go into effect next year. The Board has in tense discussions over the past 2 days on the UCLA campus, where many students have shown up to protest the proposed hikes.

Police in riot gear were on hand tp keep the peace while student participated in a peaceful demonstration, blocking the path for members of the Board of Regents as they left. The board defends its position stating that they simply have no money. After years of cut backs they feel as though they have no other place to look for money except the student body.

According to the board, students from households with sub 70,000 dollar incomes will be shielded from the increase and assured that financial aid would be available to bridge the gap. This however comes as little consolation to many students who are wondering if they can still afford their schools.

This is going to make life that is tough, already tougher for a great many of us. Some of us simply will not qualify for anymore loans to cover the difference. And quite frankly even if we do, do we really want to come out of college in THIS economy, with more debt? I feel for the UC student, tuition hikes seems to be effecting many students across the nation. I personally do understand the Boards decision, they are working with the money they have allocated to them. Given the situation of California and the deficit the government has been grappling with, it seem very unlikely that anything will get any better. At least not anytime soon.

How has this news effected your plans? We’d like to hear form the UC students out there on sharenotes.com who want to share their stories. Are you going to stick it out? Being forced to think about community college agin? Leave your comments below and share your thoughts with us.

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New Bladeless Fan By Dyson

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

You tech and engineering students on sharenotes.com will really appreciate this post, it should be right up your alley. To build the better mouse trap has long been the motto of anyone seeking to improve technology ever since the act of invention began. And the proverbial “mousetrap” is everywhere. We concentrate on the most obvious thing like the ipod, the newest in a long line of portable music devices starting back with the “walkman”. However items in need of an upgrade are literally everywhere.

Take James Dyson’s newest invention for instance, the blade-less fan. The Air Multiplier as he calls it. It’s one of those “oh yeah!” kind of things where you don’t really feel that the fan MUST be improved, but when it comes along, it’s a welcome surprise. After his successful re-thinking of the standard vacuum cleaner, aptly named “Dyson”, he has moved on to how we cool ourselves.

I’m going to link you to a youtube video showing the device here so you can see it, however if you can imagine a very large ring (approx 16″ diamater) sitting on a pedestal base, that’s what it looks like. It’s very spartan and dare I say pretty? The Mac of fans if you will.

How it works (and I am grossly over simplifying things here) is by using an impeller in the base (think of a jet engine’s fan) that pulls air in, that sucks in the air and spits it out in a small opening along the back edge of the ring. The key according to Dyson is the shape of the surface of the ring that the air passes over. It works much like a wing of a plane, by curving and causing the air to move faster along it’s surface than it would be propelled simply by the machine. This not only accelerates the air, but it also creates an area of low pressure that forces the air coming through to want to fill that space causing the airflow to further accelerate.

What you are left with is a smooth and even flow of air (unlike traditional fans that chop the air with it’s blades) that can be finely tuned with the flow control knob. Set it to Oscillate and relax. The benefits of his design are many, the smooth controlled air aside, it’s beautiful, easy to clean, easy to store and completely safe especially around children with no accessible moving parts, much less chopping blades. The drawback as you might expect is the cost. It’s going to cost about $300… for a fan (check it out here. Sadly it will most likely be cost prohibitive initially for a great many of us (me included!).

While all this is very interesting, I decided to blog about it because the sharenotes.com users are studying a myriad of fields, and some of you are aspiring Engineers. The fact of the matter is, we’re always in need of some ingenuity and advancement. Whatever your specialty or field of study remember to keep an open mind and allow your creativity to flourish the better mouse trap is always going to be out there, somewhere.

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Campus Safety

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Most of you I’m sure have heard about this tragic killing at Yale. As for information unfolds it seems like it may very well have been a person who worked in the building that she worked in doing her research. All of this is speculative, yet we’re confident that authorities will bring the killer to justice. Obviously everyone at sharenotes.com extends our deepest condolences to the family of Annie Le for their tragic loss.

The topic does however bring us back around to the conversation surrounding the safety of college campuses. I don’t have any stats to throw at you, just my own experiences and feelings. Down here in San Diego, we’ve got what seems like a pretty safe campus, but then again so would one assume about the safety of a prestigious Ivy league college, so I guess you never know?

It seems like every time something happens on a school campus, the dead bolts go on the doors, people walk just a little faster and keep just a bit more to themselves. Eventually the overly cautious return to a state of calm and the biggest concerns go back to being the odd fight at a frat party.

So the question is, are campuses safe enough, or do we fall into old habits and let our guards down too easily? It seems that the Yale campus does everything right, secured building, cameras and very limited access points. As sad as it is, it seems like crimes will always take place somewhere, somehow regardless of the amount of security.

I am of the opinion that you cannot walk around your campus (or otherwise) living in constant fear and that on many levels you must simply live your life. That of course does not mean that you should take unnecessary risks and go around looking for trouble. But it is my feeling that in general Colleges are pretty safe places. At least the one’s I’ve visited as well as my own. But I’m obviously not a safety expert, nor have I taken appraisal of all the schools across the nation.

So the question I would leave you with is, do you feel your campus is as safe as it should be? We have many students at many schools across the sharenotes.com network so please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences by leaving your comments below.

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