Autodesk get down with the kids… Fo’shizzle
Published 06 October 2008
Posted by Stephen Holmes
Fusty old Autodesk have decided to have a shake-up of its student design and engineering community website to make it more like the “popular social networking sites frequented by students.”
This could be viewed as an attempt to drag the 350,000 plus members of Audodesk’s online student community away from ‘poking’ each other on Facebook and back into doing some actual studying using their products.
In addition to the new, not-unlike-Facebook interface, users are offered showcases for their work, a careers centre, learning guides, and the opportunity to write their own informative, witty, nothing-like-this blog.
“We created the Student Community to provide students with the vital tools and information they need to learn the design process and be successful in their careers.” LOL’d Paul Mailhot, director of worldwide education programs at Autodesk.
Yep, autodesk has a good idea, but I think they would have been better off making a facebook app and letting it go viral amongst those outside those learnin’ places.<BR><BR>Josh<BR>www.solidsmack.com
Posted by Josh on 01 January 1970 at 01:00 AM