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By: LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy » Married Inc.

LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy » Married Inc. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:23:59 +0000

[...] 2 of the LearnHub homepage got out the door today, and was covered by TechCrunch: LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network. With this we’ve crystilized our homepage strategy around everyone’s favorite [...]

By: Happy First Anniversary to LearnHub.com | Libin Pan

Happy First Anniversary to LearnHub.com | Libin Pan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:41:35 +0000

[...] Here is the second bid redesigned homepage we had, which was the time we were on TechCrunch: [...]

By: Kleszczów

Kleszczów — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:23:05 +0000

exaclly this site is very good!

By: Faraz Qureshi

Faraz Qureshi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:47:24 +0000

Edufire.com is nice and focused – the value to users and tutors is pretty clear. Although there doesn’t seem to be anything to stop tutors from cutting their own deals with students and using skype/oovoo or some other web cam tool.

On the other hand Learnhub.com is not focused. They seem to be targeting all users. Their biggest community is the GMAT prep – maybe thats a clue as to where they should be focusing. Also, not sure I get why someone would take the trouble to create a course on the site. I do however like the online magazine look – has a fun come and play feel to it.

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links for 2008-06-16 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:31:52 +0000

[...] LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network The site separates its topics of study into Courses, each of which can have its own tests, lessons, and games attached to it. Many of these are free, but content creators can also choose to charge for a course. (tags: e-learning) [...]

By: George

George — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:03:31 +0000

They’ve created a very nice concept to capture a good amount of users: give them something useful and wait for the rest to come (it worked for Google!).

Most bloggers (they can be considered bloggers, right?) forget what they are doing, what they are supposed to do and where they are going. Writing is supposed to be interesting and fun – and if one of those is lacking, you can’t expect it to continuously work. When I was creating my blog I used some strategies to help market it and recently found this article to give some good insights about it.

By: Pema Hegan

Pema Hegan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:30:35 +0000

I’ve been using LearnHub for a little while now and I’ve always found it slick and easy to use. They have some incredibly advanced features for a startup that is only a few months out of the gate (I wish we could build things that quickly!).

John and Gosia’s experience is really shining through with LeanHub. They are pros and are well on their way to building another great service/company.

By: me

me — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:09:30 +0000

The site has lots of content but the ux is unusable by general public.

By: shokeya

shokeya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:02:12 +0000

exaclly this site is very good!

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:27:17 +0000

Hi,
Learninghub is still a mess. In order for students and teachers to use an elearning site it has to be SIMPLE. I think the best elearning site currently available is LectureShare.com but no one covers it. I found it via some obscure elearning blog. These elearning sites should be focused on small college and high school groups since BlackBoard has already monopolized the University market.

-John

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By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » LearnHubがソーシャルラーニングネットワークのデザイン一新

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » LearnHubがソーシャルラーニングネットワークのデザイン一新 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:11:59 +0000

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By: Jeff Hock

Jeff Hock — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:41:48 +0000

#12 Alex, they didn’t forget one, it’s the Good Ole Boys Network. Jason, I agree, Learnhub is mullet material and trying to do too many things at once and the site is complicated and overwhelming…. which is exactly why you wrote an article about them right? And Grockit is very…. well, ok they have a nice logo, that’s about all they are. Nebulous as a nimbus cloud logo, but again, totally newsworthy. Meanwhile, the freckle faced red headed step children eating sour grapes sit quietly in the corner waiting for an invite to the prom. Clique vs outcasts 101.

http://siteanal....com/?metric=uv

By: Arvinder Gujral

Arvinder Gujral — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:19:46 +0000

Malgosia, John, congrats on the launch!

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Painters decorators london — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:03:06 +0000

exaclly this site is very good!

By: painting london

painting london — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:59:58 +0000

The site separates its topics of study into Courses, each of which can have its own tests, lessons, and games attached to it. Very good, nice.

By: Pete Forde

Pete Forde — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:50:38 +0000

LearnHub is really on to something, and this UX simplification is a win.

As for its use of Rails as a framework, I’m sure that it was instrumental in helping them get their product out the door in a few months. It feels snappy and responsive to me, as well.

Kudos!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:15:33 +0000

LearnHub is looking great. The new site is much easier to use – and a great place to get some in depth information. Thanks!

By: damon

damon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:27:20 +0000

the landing page is still a mess

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:48 +0000

You forgot one: http://www.podclass.com

By: Mehdi Akiki

Mehdi Akiki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:10:43 +0000

Very nicely done John. I knew these guys from their previous company and they put up all the effort they could to get the site done in a few month.
It is refreshing to see emerging technology companies from Canada performing so well!

By: Mike McDement

Mike McDement — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:04:53 +0000

As a beta user of the service, I gotta say – despite a homepage that has become more cluttered than I recall (but which is easily changeable…relax people) – the user experience of the service is pretty slick is you are actually engaging with the content.

Congratulations to John and Gosia on the relaunch and here here to another Toronto based technology company!

By: My Tech Portal

My Tech Portal — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:00:55 +0000

@railswtf

whats so bad about rails?

By: New trends in online learning not so new « TechTicker

New trends in online learning not so new « TechTicker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:00:11 +0000

[...] an innocent statement I just can’t let go without commenting on. In a post yesterday (”LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network“) Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch said that “Online education has been booming [...]

By: Tina Su

Tina Su — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:56:23 +0000

I think their approach with looking like a blog or online magazine is an interesting one. Injecting the cool factor to learning will encourage kids to be interested.