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cosinity is sponsoring an Arizona State University Entrepreneurial CAPSTONE project.

From ASU:

Friends of ASU Poly and the Software Enterprise,

The beginning of the Fall semester is 2 weeks away, so we are ramping up efforts to identify Software Enterprise projects for the 2008-09 academic year. I am writing to solicit interest in sponsoring a project this year. Projects go through a 1-year cycle, with the Fall semester focusing on requirements and prototyping, and the Spring semester focusing on building and delivering production-quality software.

For those unfamiliar, the Enterprise is a 2-year upper-division software engineering capstone sequence, where juniors and seniors partner to execute a software project, with an emphasis on deliverable quality.

This year we are excited to announce we are receiving support from a Kaufmann Foundation to sponsor projects with an Entrepreneurial focus; to this end we are partnering with the Morrison School at ASU Poly to include business students who will take emerging technologies and perform market analysis around the projects. Therefore we are very interested in projects that have commercial potential inside or outside your organizations, and will be able to dedicate special resources to these projects. However, all types of software projects are welcome!

We are also excited to announce that we have moved into new buildings at the Poly campus, and our building (Peralta) includes space for the Software Enterprise! This gives these projects a home and provides an opportunity for us to promote your participation with ASU students! We have submitted an NSF proposal to outfit this space for project teams, please let us know if your organization has an interest in sponsoring this space as well. Finally we mention that the Enterprise has been published in the past year in the International Journal of Engineering Education, the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), and an upcoming book “Software Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches” (http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Effective-Approaches-Practices/dp/1605661023).

cosinity will be – working with ASU Poly and the Morrison School students – investigating an entirely new set of services leveraging our communications applications platform. We are exited about this opportunity to work with ASU to enhance the quality of the graduates produced and at the same time deliver high quality services to our customers.

Here is an interesting read from Seth Godin.

We tend to use new tools to do less. We try to save time and money at the same time, and end up depersonalizing and commodifying what we do.

A simple example: cost and speed pressure means that when you get your car serviced, it’s unlikely you’ll be greeted by the mechanic himself, wiping his hands on a greasy rag, telling you exactly what he did to your car. Instead, you’ll get a difficult to decipher printout.

Why not use the technology to give more?

[From Old marketing with new tools]

I think Seth hits the target spot on in this post – but I’d go one step further.

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Our founder – Brian Roy – posted his thoughts today about FWD adopting a $30/year charge.

Brian’s Blog Post

Pulver’s Blog Entry

It only took a couple of days… but we noticed some issues with responsiveness in page2call. We’ve made some changes and believe we’ve corrected the speed issues.

We’ve created a thread in the cosinity forums for you to report any issues with the responsiveness of page2call here.

regards,

the cosinity team

Today we announced the availabiltiy of page2call. We are making 300 fully functional beta accounts available starting now.

Press Release Here

You can sign up at:

cosinity page2call home

regards,

the cosinity team

good morning.

As a way of making you familiar with page2call and how it will work when your customers visit your site/add/blog/etc. we’ve placed a demo widget on the page2call product page.

But in the spirit of putting a widget in any HTML document where you’d like to

1. generate calls/customers
2. track response – and not just views (what we call widget loads) but also if your prospect actively engaged by clicking the widget and calling you.

we thought we’d put our demo widget right here in the blog.

Go ahead, click, call, enjoy!

regards,

the cosinity team

We are early… and hopefully we will get some of our weekend back!

Please feel free to check out the new page2call product page and be sure to sign up for the beta.

Remember there are only 300 beta accounts available.

regards,

the cosinity team

Great news everyone… we are well (WAY) ahead of schedule. There are only 3 minor pieces left to deploy.

At that point we’ll begin testing that everything is working. Once we’ve completed that we will be releasing page2call into beta. At that point you’ll be able to request your beta account.

regards,

the cosinity team

We are beginning the process of upgrading cosinity services to include page2call. There should be no service impacts to existing callRecord subscribers.

Any existing page2call widgets (those we’ve released for alpha testing – you know who you are) will be unavailable for the next 24 hours.

We’ll continue to update the tag “upgrades” here in the blog… so grab the feed and stay tuned.

Thanks!

the cosinity team