Scriptovia.com, the “YouTube” for Academic Documents, Allows Students to Collaborate on School Assignments

Seattle, Wash. May 29, 2007 – Scriptovia.com, a Seattle-area startup, today announced it is launching the beta version of its Web 2.0 site. The networking site allows students from all over the country to collaborate and share resources to help each other excel academically.

“The site is very similar technology to YouTube or Flickr, but for academic documents,” stated Aseem Badshah, founder and president of Scriptovia.com. “In the Scriptovia community, students can post their schoolwork – essays, class notes, lab reports, presentations, and more – so that others can view them, discuss them, learn from them, as well as critique them.”

Scriptovia.com’s features can be used at every stage of the learning process, from the initial discussion of ideas and gathering information, through writing up notes and redrafting, to sharing the finished project and getting comments. Scriptovia.com also provides similar features to other social networking sites. Scriptovia.com members can create profiles, can tag each other as friends, send messages, and provide comments.
Scriptovia.com is based on a working proof of concept, ThinkEssay.com, in which Badshah created two years ago while he was a junior in high school. “I was working on a Civil War essay wishing I had an example to see how the essay could be structured and what resources could be used and decided to create ThinkEssay.com to help others facing the same problem,” stated Badshah. “When ThinkEssay.com took off, I saw I could make it bigger and take it from a hobby to a business, such as Scriptovia.com.”

About Scriptovia.com and Aseem Badshah
Scriptovia.com is a Web 2.0 networking site providing students with a collaborative learning environment to help them excel academically. It enables students post their schoolwork — such as essays, term papers, class notes, lab reports, and presentations – to provide inspiration and resources for other students.

Aseem Badshah, 18, is founder and president of Scriptovia.com, is a freshman at the University of Washington studying business administration. At 16 years old, he founded ThinkEssay.com, the proof of concept for Scriptovia.com. In addition, Badshah worked as a high school intern and consultant with Microsoft Corporation for more than a year as a program manager developing internal tools, as well as for a project called Scenario Voting – a tool that allowed the Windows Vista test team to collect satisfaction data from the millions of beta testers. At age 11, Badshah earned the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification, making him the youngest person on record to earn this certification, an achievement typically reserved for grown-ups.