Comments on: College Tonight Teams Up with Jangl, Hints at Upcoming Mobile Features

By: Manpreet Singh

Manpreet Singh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:48 +0000

Good goin Guys..!!!

By: Matt P

Matt P — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:11:28 +0000

And by really cool, he means really lame.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:00:39 +0000

this is awesome! actually really cool….

By: SN

SN — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:35:11 +0000

tim, i like jangl (truthfully), really dont like college tonight. kind of a weak concept you know. good post john s. oh yeah, coffee man who is mark? your pr guy? haha just kidding. i agree that college tonight does not deserve any facetime… boring (and extremely nerdy) concept for someone who actually parties it up in college. pack your bags college tonight, youre not settling in.

By: k muth

k muth — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:22:36 +0000

over it… college tonight sucks. next

By: Timothy Johnson

Timothy Johnson — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:18:54 +0000

Hey all, Tim @ Jangl here. I was glad to see TC give some props to College Tonight here, but wanted to clarify a few points about Jangl, too. This is about providing phone numbers for people you “know” inside a social network, and letting them talk, leave vm, and text when you’re not quite yet comfortable swapping real phone numbers. We can already IM and email with pretty much total privacy — now, you can use your phone to do the same. Make sense? Web + phone = good thing. And people use it for different reasons. Some like the fact that their real number can’t be posted on the web’s virtual bathroom wall or abused by an overly-amorous (or intoxicated) individual, others like the SMS or the vm, and others like being able to manage all of that crap online. But the basic idea is: this is your number for HotClassmate19 on College Tonight, and it’s the only number you’ve got (which sort of removes having “foresight” from the equation). For Jangl, it fundamentally works the same way wherever we are, whether in Facebook with the Phonebook app or on some blog somewhere with a CallMe link.

And re CT’s “drunk dial” — we can all have a little fun with this, can’t we? Raise your hand if you never did one. . .esp in college.

Anyway, that’s enough from me. Just wanted to clarify a few things. Now back to our regularly-scheduled grumpiness.

Thanks again.

By: Joe T

Joe T — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:00:16 +0000

A pretty pathetic attempt to capitize on the popularity of social networks by cobbling together a bunch of lame applications that students will tire of faster than they get sick of the next rap act.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:43:40 +0000

I agree with #7… College Tonight announced something very similar in 2006 with Juice Wireless and what came out of that? You’re just giving them more PR, which is exactly what they are looking for. Check out the article below:

http://redherri....com/Home/19357

“Juice Wireless, a company that lets its users post photos, text, and videos to weblogs and Internet profiles, said Tuesday it is teaming up with College Tonight, a new social network that aims to keep college students plugged in to their campus’s social scene.

Members of College Tonight will be able to use Juice Wireless’s networking and mobile content-sharing service, JuiceCaster, to access the social network’s features from any mobile phone with a camera and Internet connection.

College Tonight’s features include local campus event listings, a calculator called the “Inebriation Station” that lets users check their approximate blood alcohol content, and a “Crush Calculator,” which lets members reveal and discover their crushes.

“College students use their mobile phones continually throughout the day and night,” said Nick Desai, chairman and co-founder of Juice Wireless. “With Juice Caster, College Tonight users can share everything that happens instantaneously, the moment it happens.”

The Juice Wireless deal will also give College Tonight members the ability to instantly share photographs or send audio “shout-outs” from the parties and events they are attending via their cell phones for free.

Depending on a member’s privacy settings, these items may be viewed by anyone on campus looking for something to do, or a specific group of friends.”

By: John S

John S — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:05:45 +0000

You got to be kidding me?! Why the hell are you still giving this company face time? Not only are you wasting your time but you’re wasting readers time. Stop posting on this retarded social net that has no chance of survival… just look at their traffic numbers to know.

By: ryanol

ryanol — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:41:46 +0000

sounds more like a semi-anonymous way to sell weed to me.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:28:44 +0000

OMFG, it’s like Facebook, but more so, OMFG x 2 L33T

By: Coffee Man

Coffee Man — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:18:32 +0000

Another kudo to you Mark. Good post!!

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:03:58 +0000

My friends and I use their service in Boston and it’s great to know what’s going on in the area and to be able to coordinate. I’m definitely interested to check out these features. May not be the greatest social network, but for college students right now, this is it for me!

Danny

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:03:14 +0000

MS CollegeContactor 1.3b, the real thing!

By: arjen

arjen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:57:18 +0000

as a college student that parties 3 times a week, I think their services are useless and dont see any benefits to using their svcs.