Hungry? At Siebel? Try sblfood.com!
Created by CS students Alex Lambert (now graduated) and Michael Hines, sblfood.com is a Twitter-based service that connects hungry students at Siebel. The service helps students looking for someone to share a delivery order by posting requests through their Twitter feed.
Students already on Twitter can use #sblfood to redistribute their message through the sblfood.com interface. Those not on can go directly to sblfood.com to send their message out.
With the motto “Meeting Through Eating”, the creators also hope the tool will work as a social outlet too, connecting students who might not otherwise have met. The idea for the service arose during Alex and Michael’s Human-Computer Interaction special topics course with Prof. Karrie Karahalios last year, with some ideas borrowed from their User Interface class as well.
The service is now managed by Alex’s brother, Andrew, a student in the College of Business. Andrew is expanding the service to other campus locations as a project to develop his Python and Django skills.