Remember, when Facebook was started it was meant just for the college students for them to share their activities with their peer groups. In the same line is the new social networking venture Scoop
Scoop is a social networking site that is meant “for the students and by the students” , the project is having investments from some of the big names in the industry most prominent being the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt . His personal venture capital investment arm, TomorrowVentures has invested in Trumpet Technologies, developers of Scoop.
Scoop is developed keeping in mind the college students and is backed up by a mobile phone application for ‘mobile local search’, to find your friends and their activities in the nearby areas. Eric Schmidt says that Scoop is capable of taking down the social networking giant Facebook.
According to Nick Simmons and Michael Akilian, two college students recruited to develop the Scoop say that the primary ambition of the site is to help people discover events on campus, say like a basket ball game or a farewell party. “Imagine having a campus-wide conversation about what’s going on,” “That information is not all in one place today.”, says Simmons.
While the Facebook still remains the champion in the social network game it would take some time to see if Scoop could really make it up to beat Facebook by walking on its lines. Perhaps the biggest feature in the coming days of Scoop will be its “mobile local search” application to connect college students with events and activities.
Scoop is a social networking site that is meant “for the students and by the students” , the project is having investments from some of the big names in the industry most prominent being the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt . His personal venture capital investment arm, TomorrowVentures has invested in Trumpet Technologies, developers of Scoop.
Scoop is developed keeping in mind the college students and is backed up by a mobile phone application for ‘mobile local search’, to find your friends and their activities in the nearby areas. Eric Schmidt says that Scoop is capable of taking down the social networking giant Facebook.
According to Nick Simmons and Michael Akilian, two college students recruited to develop the Scoop say that the primary ambition of the site is to help people discover events on campus, say like a basket ball game or a farewell party. “Imagine having a campus-wide conversation about what’s going on,” “That information is not all in one place today.”, says Simmons.
While the Facebook still remains the champion in the social network game it would take some time to see if Scoop could really make it up to beat Facebook by walking on its lines. Perhaps the biggest feature in the coming days of Scoop will be its “mobile local search” application to connect college students with events and activities.