I’m very intrigued by Usphere. The site says you can sign up and fill out a college application which gets forwarded to 33 schools for free (for a fee they give you more resources for help with the application). The schools review your application and send you your acceptance letter with their app fee.

Needless to say…I’m intrigued. They don’t list which schools they send the app to — so that’s a bit confusing why they’re not publicizing that information. I would want to know that as a student applying to college.…

I know, it’s been a while. Big plans are in development as I’ve entered into a project with a friend on the next web2.0 to hit the www this summer.

Also, I’ve decided to go back to school. I’ve been spending the past week prepping to take the GMAT on Monday. It should be a bit easier than the GRE, but I still want to do my best.

All being said, hopefully in a few more weeks things will be back on par. I’m headed to a conference at the end of the month and then should have some time to show off the Ruby User Management System. I have an almost completed demo for you to play with as we continue to learn …

I’ve messed around this weekend with getting rid of that slow-loading theme I was using and switched to the simplr theme. In the processes of doing so, I made a few enhancements:

• Snap screenshot previews for links
• del.icio.us feed (needs to be tweaked a bit)
• del.icio.us & digg submits
• famfamfam icon usage (love their stuff!)

If I get some time, I might play around with the titles — not sure how I feel about them being in Flash, as my FF ctrl-click isn’t working and that bugs me.

Hope you enjoy this more than the previous. The tutorials are in the works. In the meantime, I might be launching a personal blog with info on my personal life and keep the focus of matthewvb.com to …