I have had that experience with many companies. Often times in financial companies it will be up to the discretion of a partner to decide if they would like to pay interns.
I interviewed with two different offices of a large brokerage (shall remained unnamed but they were purchased by BoA). One office told me I would get school credit for filling orders. The other office offered to pay me for doing market analysis. It seems the difference lies in how much they value an interns service.
I looked at making a site similar to this about 15 months ago. I found the market to be saturated and hard to differentiate in. There are currently sites that allow both users and experts to post video responses to each other, I find this much more interested then reading a threaded response.
That said, it looks like the threads could be improved with some added functionality such as integration with facebook--a picture or two would make the debate seem a little more interesting. Also, how does one "win" and argument, I did not see a ranking system.
Final take aways:
-How do you differentiate the site from a news aggregater with comments?
-UI needs a little more color?
-Maybe a a sidebar that explains the premise of the site.
It seems like femtocells are are a half way solution. Leveraging a dual mode smartphone would provide much easier solution. Maybe a phone based client that automatically routes through the WiFi to the cellular infrastructure would be a better solution.
I know t-mobile has a solution but that still requires you to get a separate router and it is limited to certain phones. .
I've looked at enterprise solutions like Agito Networks, but the cost seems prohibitively high for non enterprise users..
I interviewed with two different offices of a large brokerage (shall remained unnamed but they were purchased by BoA). One office told me I would get school credit for filling orders. The other office offered to pay me for doing market analysis. It seems the difference lies in how much they value an interns service.