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Social media site an ‘academic supplement’ to Facebook

The new CampusLive will let students migrate their Facebook information.

Instead of a Facebook news feed cluttered with tidbits about friends’ FarmVille progress, Boris Revsin wants a social media site that alerts college students to the latest in academic news from their peers—information that could connect students and form study groups.

Since 2007, CampusLive.com has been a one-stop shop for college students looking for local eats, perusing campus headlines, and connecting to their school’s library.

And Revsin, a former University of Massachusetts Amherst [1] student and CEO of CampusLive [2], said the site’s next iteration will allow users to pull their Facebook profiles into a more academically-focused site dedicated to campus goings on.

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