Nexus Trade has a new feature called Wishlists. This is the feature I pushed for from the beginning, and it is a delight. Students are able to add books to their wishlist, and other people can then see what other students are looking to buy. When a book is listed for sale students with it in their wishlist will be notified by RSS feed or email. You can even add other items to your wishlist. I just added Mario Kart for Gamecube to mine.

Things are going very well and hopefully we’ll be able to open up to more colleges in a few weeks or months. Unfortunately we did launch at a time when college students are on their winter break and may not be looking to buy or sell books just yet.

Update: I didn’t realize all types of items could be added to your Wishlist already. I have updated the post to reflect that.

Nexus Trade began as a TCNJ club that enabled students to buy and sell textbooks on campus. It has now been reborn and redesigned with better features, as it languished in limbo for months.

Students are still able to buy and sell books to other students online, but they now handle the trades themselves so there are no fees. We have a great system where you set a public place to complete the transaction once someone is buying your item. We have also expanded into other items besides textbooks, and a few other colleges besides TCNJ. All you need to do to access the site is go to www.nexustrade.com and enter the zip code of your college. You will then see available colleges in that area. If we don’t have your college listed you can request that we add it.

We have launched with the essential features, and some great new features are planned in the near future. One of the coming features is a wishlist that will notify you when items you are looking for have been posted to Nexus Trade.

We hope you enjoy it and had a happy holiday season.

The Nexus Trade Project Staff at Etation Media
Justin Jones and Jason Schramm

Apparently I forgot to update the database queries for the Acronym Creator when I migrated to the new host. These have since been fixed, so feel free to use the service again.

Thanks to Randy for pointing it out.

Today marks my renewed push towards posting online and working on various projects. So you can expect to see a lot more from me starting today.

Tonight’s RadioFirefox show will be the last one that is live on-air on WTSR 91.3FM. I wish I had known sooner, and this definitely puts a damper on things.

In the coming month I will be editing my old shows and putting them online. I will also be figuring out a way to run the show as a podcast. It will be live if I can find a way, otherwise it will be pre-recorded. I plan to get better content, more interviews and call-ins from professionals, and keep a consistent schedule (weekly or biweekly).

If you are viewing this then you are on the new server. All projects are moving to a GoDaddy hosting account. Updates will follow as DNS changes propagate.

Over the past few months, years even, I have been extremely busy with classes. As a result many of my sites have at times gone by the wayside. In a week and a half that is all going to change. I will have more time to work on select projects, and I will be blogging more often at AppleWatch, BusinessBits, and JasonBlogs. I will also be trying to edit as many radio shows as possibly to get them up at RadioFirefox.com. I currently have an enormous backlog of great content, since this semester marked a better planned radio show then last semester.

On the business/projects front Etation.com will be getting a makeover, and I am finally going to make a serious push into web design and getting clients over the next few months. Also, Nexus Trade will be launching in a few weeks as the destination for college students to buy and sell their items with each other. It won’t be only tangible items too, but I’ll tell you about that when the time comes. It has been coming along rather well thanks to my team of coding ninjas.

The next few months will see a renewed push to turn my ideas and obsessions into a business. This could be the only time I will have the opportunity before I have to get a 9-5 job when I graduate, and if it works I will be able to continue developing my own projects full-time. Otherwise I will only be able to work on my projects in my spare time. So now is the time for you to let me know what changes you would like to see, otherwise I will just let you know as I improve and update my various projects.

Do you like testing out the coolest new projects around? Do you get joy from finding bugs? Then we want you to beta test Nexus Trade. We are building a great place for college students to buy and sell items to others nearby. This is your chance to help us make sure that everything works as expected when we launch.

More details are up at www.NexusTrade.com. And you can post comments here if you have any questions.

I just decided to blog live while djing on the air. You can check it out here at RadioFirefox.com. Unfortunately tonight’s episode isn’t anything special, but if Nathan Weinberg winds up calling in I might get a little peak at what’s happening at TechCrunch NYC. How dare they fill up the event before I could add my name to the list. lol. It’s a stretch as to whether he will call in, but one can always hope.

If this works well I might do it more often, and find a way to get the playlists up as the show is happening.

Radio Firefox: Live Blogging the Show: November 16

Tonight on Radio Firefox I have a great show for you. I will be going over the Democrats’ election win, and what they hope to accomplish. I will also cover some of the NJ race. The Spotlight on Security will cover Mozilla and Microsoft security updates. And there is some interesting developments happening in the SGA and Dining Services Committee.

I will be editing the show out of order, and hopefully having it up by Monday. It is just too important not to put online.