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Contact: Nina Furnari ConnectU- PR 413-885-6080 [email protected]
CONNECTU WEB SITE LAUNCHED @ BOSTON UNIVERISTY
National College Networking Web site Makes Waves
CAMBRIDGE, MA, AUGUST 20, 2004 — ConnectU.com is a free online community that connects students and alums through networks of friends and common interests at over one-hundred different colleges and universities. ConnectU can be used for friendship, class work, dating, and developing professional relationships. ConnectU also boasts a chat feature, discussion groups, an address book, as well as a book exchange that allows students to buy and sell used books.
The Web site was founded by Harvard College alums Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, in an effort to increase social opportunities at Harvard. “The idea of ConnectU was spawned in the winter of 2002 after it became obvious that the social and dating scene at Harvard needed some work,” says Cameron Winklevoss. “We wanted to improve the intra and inter-campus social scene by creating an online, university-wide friends and dating network.”
Now ConnectU is available at BU! Wonder who that girl/guy was in your sociology 101 class? Wonder how you can get in contact with that girl/guy you met on spring break? ConnectU is an online community for BU students and simultaneously a launch pad to the online community of every other school across the nation. Look at it as the BU community inside a larger one.
ConnectU has recently finished the data base for Boston University, and now students can simply select their courses, majors, and dormitories from a drop down menu and are instantly plugged-in to every other student with these same specifications.
“The site combines the fun nature of friendship and dating sites, along with the utility of a professional networking site. We aim to create niche communities at the university level, instead of catering to a much larger and generic audience with limited quality control,” says Narendra. “ConnectU brings together the best of both worlds.”
Whether it’s instantly chatting with friends, keeping track of friend’s phone numbers and addresses through auto-updating address book, or finding those lecture notes, ConnectU has it all. But don’t hear it from us, the service is free, all students need to do is register with their school email address and they’ll be on their way. ConnectU strives to give campus’ the opportunity–it’s up to the students to make it happen.
About ConnectU Founders
What do a Harvard Applied Math major and two Harvard NCAA Champion undefeated-rowers have in common? Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss are members of Harvard’s class of 2004. The three recently launched a social networking website titled ConnectU.com. Narendra, a native of Queens, NY is currently residing in Manhattan working for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), a leading global investment banking and financial services firm. Identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are residing in Greenwich, CT, where they will be training for the Olympics in 2008. The twins are set to be featured in New York Magazine in an article titled, “Hello Handsome,” due out August 16th. All three Harvard grads were friends throughout their undergraduate careers and claim that what you see on ConnectU is the just the beginning of the social networking revolution.
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