January 3, 2007
Missouri student goes mobile, creating social network for cell phones
UMR student-entrepreneur Benjamin Roodman is going mobile with the launch of a social networking service that integrates the Internet with cellular telephone technology.
[Thanks to Andrew Careaga of the University of Missouri-Rolla !! ]
Roodman, a senior computer engineering major from Chesterfield, Mo., is the CEO of ImThere, a social networking service that connects subscribers to information about events -- such as concerts, CD launch parties or indie film festivals -- via text messages over their cell phones. ImThere is the first service launched by a company Roodman co-founded in early 2006, Ramped Media.
“ImThere is a user-driven site that allows people to find things to do, by using either their cell phone or the website,” says Roodman, who is piloting ImThere in St. Louis with plans to expand it to other markets later this year".
read more on this at UMR News and Research
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