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I spoke with Jordan Goldman, the twenty-fix year old founder of Unigo.com and a recent grad of Wesleyn University, last Tuesday about their new site and how it can be used as a cross-campus platform for information and concerns -- particularly in these scary economic times. They were recently written up on the New York Times Magazine -- a pretty impressive feat for a web site four days after it was launched!

Unigo does for college info what blogs are doing for news: providing real-time news for millions of people that used to be the captive domain of old-line publishing companies. Jordan wanted to create a resource that reflected campus-life in real time from the perspective of students -- as opposed to the array of hard-copy guides that are generated from the college's (usually their communication office's) perspective like Princeton Review that take years to put together. Read more »