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Here's a peek at RIPL, the college social network that’s currently in closed beta and open only to students at the University of Washington and the University of Central Florida...and us. The Seattle-based company has raised $2M in Series A funding.
The main page you see is a Netvibes/Pageflakes-type drag and drop interface, with plenty of sponsored modules (these can be dragged to the bottom, of course). There's also a RIPL desktop tool that logs what you're listening to in iTunes and posts it to your page, ala MOG. But a note to the developers: all this underwater theming might be a little patronizing if the target market is the college demographic.
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