As more and more college students use WePay to collect money for student groups, charities, rent, and other things, I have become increasingly aware of other useful websites and web applications that serve the same market.

Therefore, I’m going to start blogging  about these companies in the hope that WePay can help spread the word about other useful tools for colleges students.

I recently had the opportunity to meet the founders of CampusLive, a company that builds college-specific homepages for students. The homepages provide single-click access to email, local menus, popular links, academic portals, athletics, social networks (like facebook and Twitter), news, and entertainment.

CampusLive is now in 200 of the largest schools in the country, and it looks like that’s just the beginning.

The company was founded about four years ago by three roommates at Umass Amherst: Boris Revsin, Jared Stenquist, and Jeff Cassidy.

The founders say that CampusLive.com arose out of a need for a website that students could use to find information all in one place about on and off-campus happenings.

After building the first version of the site for Umass Amherst, they decided to take their $20 budget and ”advertise” in the UMass Parking Garage using a tarp to print their message: “Go to CampusLive.”  In 2008, Business Week named them number three among the top 25 entrepreneurs under age 25.

Be sure to check out CampusLive and WePay. WePay is free to sign-up!