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Quvex Meet Kylie Minogue at StudyVox – Our Student Social Networking Website

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

At Quvex we love all our clients and one of out biggest clients is StudyVox (http://www.studyvox.co.uk), the social and academic networking site for students.

The site now has a substantial user base amongst full and part time students on campuses across the country. And we were most definitely excited to be at the event today with The StudyVox Foundation awarding a £10,000 bursary to one lucky student in a ceremony attended by Kylie Minogue herself. There were also three awards of £2,000 each.

Other lucky students were invited to attend the event and got to meet the patron of The StudyVox Foundation in person.

We are proud of the StudyVox site and the fact that it just works so well for the target market – and we know it adds considerable value to their interactions. Building online relationships helps to foster ‘offline’ connections, whilst the tools we have created mean students no longer need to sweat on their own. Users are able to set up study groups to share ideas with others on their course, or with anybody taking their subject across the entire StudyVox network.

The site has that combination of genuine usefulness, mixed with the potential for forming social connections across campus and beyond. Members are able to promote events, post photos, upload their favourite music and videos and form independent social groups.

As technology partner to StudyVox, Quvex attended the celebration today 25th February. “It’s a great opportunity for us to meet the end users of the site and to talk to them directly. To meet some of the dedicated users of the StudyVox site is really exciting” said Mike Duma, CTO at Quvex.

Google Caffeine ready for roll out

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Google Caffeine, the project name for the newest reincarnation of the search engine, is launching imminently.

The project first came to light in August 2009, when the Google’s search engineers publicly invited web developers to test the new version of the search engine and give their feedback.

When somebody performs a Google search on one of the hundreds of thousands of Google servers, the engine decides which data centre to send the query to. When project Caffeine goes live, certain people will be able to experience the effects of the new technology if their particular search query is sent to the data centre which has been upgraded.

The exact timing and server locations of the roll out is still unsure, so it is impossible to predict who will reap the benefits of the new technology when it goes live.

Google caffeine is also set to change the way that SEO works too.  The new search engine will begin to award higher ranking for websites with a faster download time.  Now is the time to begin to optimise your website for speed.

Improving the speed of its search technology is crucially important to Google and other search engines at the moment.  The need for real-time search results is a hot issue for search engine companies like Google in a bid to make their services as fast and reliable as possible.

StudyVox Signs Up Kylie Minogue as Patron of Charitable Foundation

Friday, January 15th, 2010

One of our flagship clients, the mighty StudyVox have within the last couple of days, signed up Kylie Minogue as to become patron of the StudyVox Foundation, a new charity being launched with the aim of providing bursary support to UK undergraduates seeking help with tuition fees.

Kylie said: “Studyvox is such a fantastic site for students. It helps them to be connected with one another wherever they may be across the country. I would have loved to have access to this kind of thing when I was studying!”

Kylie Minogue will be handing out the initial awards to students at a ceremony in spring 2010, and Quvex will be going along to meet her and to take part in the celebration. Kylie said: “It will be a great honour to present the first bursaries on behalf of The Studyvox Foundation. Having visited the headquarters, I know it is a very worthwhile and exciting venture.”

Quvex, the market leading digital interaction specialists, were commissioned by StudyVox to create the revolutionary new platform for their student community.

Combining social networking with practical and innovative tools that allow students to really maximise the internet as a shared resource for their studies and social activities means that StudyVox can offer advanced functionality that really benefits their users.

“Quvex have been an invaluable partner for StudyVox. Their technical competence and dedication to the project have been truly impressive. The StudyVox community has really been brought to life with the broad range of interactive tools and functionality they have created.” – Sara Martin CEO.

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