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A New Addition to N.C. State’s Virtual World
New Web site provides ‘one stop shop’  for students
Sneha Patel 
Correspondent
A relatively new addition to N.C. State’s virtual world is the CampusLIVE website. Launched only about three weeks ago, the site intends to provide a "one-stop shop" for students, according to Boris Revsin, the co-founder of the CampusLIVE Web site.
This Web site, which is meant to be set as a homepage, includes several links to popular pages like Twitter, Rate My Professor, Pandora Radio, Facebook, and many major e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
It provides links to N.C. State specific sites as well, like MyPack Portal, GoPack.com and Vista. When set as a homepage, Revsin says this will save students the hassle of checking several different Web page every morning.
Other things which are included are restaurant reviews for students to find a place to eat, local television listings, local weather forecasts and movie timings for nearby theaters.
The Web site is a project that was created by college students from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in an attempt to simplify student life and currently spans 87 campuses across the country.
According to Revsin, before this site is launched at any campus, a team is sent down and surveys the area and finds out where the students are eating and where they enjoy going. This is all done in coordination with the student campus representative. This information is then used to create a site for students to use that contains pertinent information.
However, when the site was created for N.C. State, there weren’t any students on the team. Students can now enter input for missing links or apply to be a Campus Representative.
There are “dozens of representatives”  across the country, according to Boris Revsin, co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of CampusLIVE, and “currently looking to hire N.C. State students in representative positions.”
According to Jeannene Lang, a freshman in English, “the fact that N.C. State students have been given input doesn’t bother me,” she said, “only because it’s all stuff that I already used, just in one place.”
Restaurant reviews and hours of operation are also available on the site. The listing is provided free but the site generates profit through advertising.
The advertising revenue covers the site's operating costs.
“All the employees at CampusLIVE are 21-23 years old,” Revsin said, “so this isn’t some big corporation giant. We’re all student entrepreneurs working on a budget.”
After about one semester, the entrepreneur group begins to hire interns at each of the campuses. The interns help keep up with the office side of the site, and are paid.
None of the links that are featured on the website pay CampusLIVE, Revsin said, but certain sites such as Fandango and TvGuide have created partnerships with CampusLIVE.
Revsin said about 500 students submitted their e-mail addresses during New Student orientation and received e-mail notifications about the site.
The site now averages about 3,000 hits daily and has almost 1,000 registered users.
Erin Kamm, a freshman in animal science, received notification through e-mail.
“I find this site useful, only because it really does shorten the time that I’m on the Internet. Everything is just in one place,” she said.
According to Revsin, 3,000 hits in three weeks is a good number due to the size of the campus. He said, “Our goal is to have 10,000 hits daily by the end of October.”