Examville (www.examville.com), an online education marketplace, launches its e-commerce personalized teacher/tutor storefront pages. Designed to connected educators and students online, the personalized profile pages are likened to those on sites like eBay and Amazon, which smaller sellers to establish their business. On Examville, teachers can now set up their own online education store with a unique URL at no charge. From that page, they can connect with students/parents worldwide and offer virtual classes, online tutoring and instruction materials (for a fee). As an open platform, Examville profile pages can also be leveraged by third-party service providers, including test prep and tutoring companies, publishers, corporations among others.
Ivy Chang on 01 May 13Mapkin is a new platform that lets friends send each other personalized directions, with custom instructions and voice recordings. Once users have created a route from one point to another, they can begin to add elements along the way. Choosing from a list of popular stop-off points or creating their own, they can include points of interest such as restaurants, gas stations and parking spaces. Mapkin enables users to also add their own comments along the way - directing friends to avoid a particular junction or simply making instructions clearer or more fun. To replace the limited selection available with standard GPS navigation devices, directions can be complemented with users' own voice recordings. Maps can then be saved and shared with friends over email, SMS or social networks.
