LionLink (Facebook)
LionLink is Columbia's incredibly mediocre 'private' undergraduate facebook and directory. Only has CC/SEAS students. Uses your CUID picture. You can hide all your info, and search by name, UNI, major, dorm, and floor. Launched in 2005. Created by CCIT. Pissed off Barnard and GS.
Coalesce
Coalesce was the name given to an undergraduate e-community for CC/SEAS undergraduates planned by the Division of Student Affairs along with CCSC and ESC. First it got scooped by CUCommunity, and then Facebook.
"The undergraduate e-community will provide several features including an on-line directory listing all the information that is currently on the main Columbia Directory. In addition, the e-community will offer: a Facebook, a buddy list / personal network, and the opportunity for limited access to friends who have recently graduated."
The above quote is from a November 2003 email inviting students to choose whether or not they would like their photo to be displayed when the site launched the following semester. It never launched. LionLink is likely what became of Coalesce.
External links
[www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/lionlink LionLink]
