A fairly recent trend in a lot of the college community is the internet poker fad through sites like Party Poker.  But this trend is likely to stop.  Saturday, Republican’s passed a bill making it impossible for American’s to play poker online.

Columbia Daily Spectator:

Under the proposed law, which was unexpectedly pushed through the Senate by Majority Leader Bill Frist, it is illegal for credit card companies or banks to transact with online casinos and certain gambling sites, effectively shutting them off from U.S. residents. Bets on horse racing, fantasy sports, and state lotteries will be exempt.

Many students in the college and university system have been paying their way through school by utilizing these sites.  In the future, they will be forced to find extra sources of income elsewhere.

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Building a resume can be a real pain.  You have to deal with formatting the resume, writing the resume, getting the resume out, and then keeping it up to date.  A new online service called Emurse does it all.

Solution Watch with more:

Emurse offers a free service where anyone can signup and create a resume using their online resume builder and share it on the web. Users have the option to create or upload multiple resumes and obtain a permanent address for each (resume.emurse.com) where they can send people to view, download, and print their resume. Resume pages allow viewers to download in six different formats (DOC, PDF, RTF, ODT, HTML, TXT) and and at the same time track the amount of views, downloads, and prints of the resume for the owner to monitor.

For more information or to start an account, click here.

A new online service called studicious allows students to take notes, organize schedules, keep track of grades, and share notes online with other studicious users.

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Claimed to be a social notetaking service, Stu.dicio.us allows students to publicly save organized notes, manage a class schedule, and keep up to date with tasks using a time sensitive to do list…

As of now, students can organize themselves using a class schedule tool, note manager, and a to do list in an Ajax based interface with barely any clutter to be found. Students can also search other member notes, making Stu.dicio.us a social notetaking service. But what has me excited for the service are the features to come September 1st. Stu.dicio.us says to expect a grade manager to record test and quiz grades, a 1gb file manager to save documents and school related material, and Wikipedia integration for class notes.

If you want an easy means of keeping track of all school related information, you want to cut back on paper waste, or if you want access to other people’s notes, you might want to check this out.  For more information, visit stu.dicio.us.

The facebook craze has taken the college community by storm.  I’d go as far as to say that almost all college students are hooked up through this college social networking site.  Here is a list of the tips you need to know to keep your Facebook experience as easy and useful as possible.

College V2:

The Age Checker 1.1: This script automatically calculates the age of the profile you are viewing.

AIM Staus Icon: Lets you know the AIM status of the profile you are viewing, even knows if you are away.

For the full guide, click here.

Facebook.com, the popular college social networking site, that recently turned down an offer for the site has recently entered into negotiations with Yahoo.

Yahoo!News Reports:

Social-networking Web site Facebook.com is in serious talks to sell itself to Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) for an amount that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Facebook, which has been at the center of takeover rumors for months, also held separate discussions with Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, and media conglomerate Viacom over the past year, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

In March, BusinessWeek reported that the company had turned down a $750 million offer and hoped to fetch as much as $2 billion in a sale. It has been separately reported that Viacom held talks to buy Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and creator of Facebook, created the site as a way to network with individual friends and friends friends.

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It took off on college campuses in the wake of the rapid rise and subsequent decline of Friendster, the pioneering social network in 2004. In two years, it has become the primary online meeting place for a generation of U.S. college students.

Today, Facebook is rapidly expanding, moving outside of the college community into high school social networks.

Daily, students are logging into their Facebook, Myspace, and countless other social networking sites to catalog their lives.  But these sites aren’t just being seen by friends.

USA Today Reports:

College student Michael Guinn thought the photos he posted of himself dressed in drag would be seen only by friends. But he made a mistake. And when someone showed the photos on Facebook to administrators at John Brown University, a Christian college in Siloam Springs, Ark., it was “the last straw for them,” says Guinn, 22, who is gay.

In the past few months, college, high school and even middle school students across the USA have been suspended or expelled, thrown off athletic teams, passed over for jobs and even arrested based on their online postings. (Related items: Survey: Should a person be expelled or passed over for online postings? | Blog: Share your thoughts: Is the issue free speech or risky behavior?)

Students post pictures of themselves holding cans of beer and bottles of liquor — even when they’re underage. They pose suggestively wearing little — sometimes no — clothing. Some appear to be smoking marijuana in bongs or joints, even holding firearms. They openly write nasty comments about each other or their teachers and coaches online.