UGAKey.com Announces Acquisition by Koofers

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UGAKey.com Announces Acquisition by Koofers

Georgia Alumni Thank Users, Ensure Grade Data for Future

February 14, 2011

University of Georgia students have a new resource for choosing their courses and professors.

UGAKey.com, a website containing grades for most University of Georgia courses since 1999, will now be available from Koofers.

The eleven years of grade data previously available on UGAKey.com, along with several thousand syllabi, will now be accessible through Koofers.com, along with course textbook listings, professor reviews, and other services that Koofers brings to over 2,000 campuses nationwide.

UGAKey.com was developed by UGA alumni Chris M. Lindsey ‘08, Noah Mink ‘08, and Paul Ruddle ‘09. An original version of The Key was available on a Black Tie Party website in March of 2006, while UGAKey.com officially opened its doors on August 11, 2007.

“We created UGAKey.com to provide a service to UGA students,” said Chris Lindsey, UGAKey.com co-founder. “We’ve had a great time building and maintaining the site. But, as we’ve graduated from UGA, we’ve found less time to add the new features to the site that we’ve always dreamed of. Koofers will provide more great services to UGA students, at no cost.”

Fellow co-founder Paul Ruddle added, “We want to thank all the UGA students who have made UGAKey.com an invaluable part of their course registrations for more than five years. We know Koofers will continue to provide the important information you’ve come to expect from us, and we look forward to seeing what exciting new things they have in store.”

UGAKey.com Founders,

Chris M. Lindsey
Noah Mink
Paul Ruddle

About Koofers

Koofers, Inc. is a social learning company transforming higher education through student-driven, intercollegiate collaboration. Founded in 2008, Koofers empowers students to help each other learn by providing open and free access to: course materials, class and professor ratings, study aids and more.

New UGA Football Mindset

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This is what I want to see from University of Georgia football recruits:

“I just want to say to Jay at the end of his announcement, I heard your call,” Drew said. “And now I’ve given an answer. Isaiah Crowell, we’re waiting on you; Antonio Richardson, we’re waiting on you; John Jenkins, we’re waiting on you; and Jeoffrey Pagan, we’re waiting on you. Come join what we’re putting together, the Dream Team. But remember, a dream is only a dream until you make it reality. So I’m calling you out on this one. I hope you’re not afraid to be thrown into the fire. I hope you’re not afraid to be the ones to make the change.”

Georgia football needs a new mindset, and I like this!

Doodle for 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Inauguration

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Google has a great Google Doodle (see it here) for today, the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th President of the United States.  PCMag has some background, but the Doodle specifically honors Kennedy’s inaugural address.  It includes many of the words of Kennedy’s iconic address (read the text of his address here).

See the Doodle here.

You can also see the earliest known draft of the address at the JFK Library website (along with his secretary’s files of dictation and other notes).

New Points System in NASCAR?

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Reports say that NASCAR is contemplating a new points system (SceneDaily, FoxSports, and ESPN).  The current points system has been in place since 1975 (but it added the Chase system in 2004).

The current system is confusing.  According to Fox:

NASCAR legend claims the current system was devised on a napkin over drinks at a Daytona bar in 1974 and implemented the next season. The complicated scoring method gives 175 points to the winner, and decreases in increments of five points and then three points down to 34 points for the last-place finisher.

Five-point bonuses are awarded for leading a lap, and to the driver who leads the most laps.

The debated new system would award 43 points for first place (there are 43 drivers in a race) and one point less for each position, with 1 point for 43rd place.  If they want to do this, why not just use the average finish?  That’s even less confusing.

I know NASCAR wants to do all sorts of things to get more viewers, but here’s the deal.  The last race of 2010 decided the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion in the closest fashion ever seen by race fans.  And, the race was decided by the two best drivers of the year, working for the two best teams, who had the two best pit crews.

How much more action do we need?

Great Post on Critiques

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Hiding behind your Twitter avatar and telling the world how terrible everything is is pretty easy. It’s even funny sometimes. Putting yourself on the line and making something original is really hard work. Which one do you want to be. Which one deserves our respect and attention?

-37 Signals blog, Signal vs. Noise, on critiquing others’ work when you don’t know the contexts (yeah, I didn’t want to print the title).