THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Student creates storytelling site By Alan delevie COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER addsoB7@psu.edu For anyone with a story to tell, David Adewumi said he thinks t he has the perfect place for it: Heekya.com. "Heekya simply is a Wildpedia for stories," he said. Adewumi (junior-information sciences and technology), who founded Heekya, has been work : ing since this summer on his start-up Web site in Washington, D.C., with three other' people. "For the last hundred years, stories have been a one-way 'broadcast," Adewumi said. This is where he saw a need for a "social storytelling plat :form," he said. He said Heekya adds -collabo ' ration" and "depth" to the story telling process. Assistant professor Elizabeth Kisenwether. director of the engineering entrepreneurship minor, mentored Adewumi. She recalled a meeting between Adewumi and another Penn State entrepreneur, Matt Brezina. Brezina co-founded Xobni, a company that offers an e-mail organization tool. 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September 9 7:00 pm Willard - 162 Texas Instruments Thurs., September 11 6:30 pm Willard - 251 Adewumi just hit it off," Kisen wether said. Last April, Xobni rejected a $2O million buyout offer from Microsoft, according to Techcrunch.com, a top tech news blog. Kisenwether also mentioned some of the resources Penn State offers to student entrepre neurs. "I think the faculty that are teaching entrepreneurship, they're all great network cre ators," she said. In a screencast on Heekya.com, Adewumi demonstrates how to tell a story on the site, using a wedding as an example. "By telling their story on Heekya, Paul and Lindsay can share with their guests the com plete story of their relationship, both by the time period that it happened and also by the loca tion where the wedding took place," Adewumi said in the screencast, showcasing Heekya's use of Google Maps to map the location of a story "We have the idea at Heekya that a story may not belong to any one person," Adewumi con tinued in the screencast. "If you're at the same event with someone or found an interesting N What's For NP#00000)019 M=m2Al 71• Nittany Lion (/go Recruiting annamixs. Employer Information Sessions CTHE DA • ILY °Began LOCAL & STATE story, you can grab that story, copy it and tell your own unique story from your own vantage point." Adewumi then described Heekya's user interface, saying media from different social sites such as Facebook and Webshots can be imported onto Heekya. Heekya received funding and advice from Launchßox Digital, an "early stage investment firm," according to Launchßox's Web site. Heekya is in its "alpha" phase of development, meaning it is being privately tested, according to the Heekya Web site. However, 25 testing invites have been offered at istbuilding.com, an independent news and opinion site focused on Penn State's Col lege of Information Sciences and Technology, which allows the invitees to test the Web site before public release. Heekya has garnered much press attention, including an arti cle in The Washington Post and on Techcrunch.com. Heekya is "derived from the Swahili word that means story," Adewumi said. Swahili, an African language, is "a language of many people," he added. 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