Nikita Polyakov

--- Student?

If you are student in a 4 year college or university, or a graduate student - you MUST check out and at least attempt one or two tracks in this great set of competitions called Imagine Cup.

http://ImagineCup.com

Imagine Cup is a world wide technology applications and theory competition that facilitates students to interactively solve real world challenges in a fun and rewarding competition.

[If you are from University of South Florida please use this referral code when registering online - IC07US0145]

--- Business?

If you are a technology company and are looking for the brightest, most out going minds in your area's university - you must go to the site as well and watch that space very carefully.

Contact IC about opportunities to find those students, go to the website and Register. More details can be obtained from IC staff  contact them directly.

--- Want to do some good?

Also, as I understand there are MENTOR opportunities, but I don't have much more on that, go to the website and Register as a MENTOR and see what they have or just Contact IC directly.

I've been using Office Live BETA for some time now, two different flavors - Live Essentials and Live Basics. Essentials is $30/m and Basics is FREE, both products/services are free during the beta to try. I like the product which in short words - Office Live is a small business collaboration, email, website.

http://officelive.microsoft.com/officelivebasic.aspx

So to all of the sites out there selling the $500 website templates and other junk like that - when some of my customers try to demand  those prices from me - I will just have them go over to Live Basics and be done with it - heck! Even the Domain Name registration is FREE! And they have some very very nice templates.

Here are my sites in their very rough condition, since I demoed this to too many people and kept deleting and recreating pages:

http://campuskoders.com