We’ve been selected as one of the twenty start-ups to go to the London Mini-Seedcamp on 20th April. We’re really excited about this - as well as a great chance to showcase what we do, we’ll get a full day of pitching, mentoring and advice from a world class selection of entrepreneurs and industry experts.
You can find out more here.
Do your part - donate your status to Comic Relief
This Friday it’s Red Nose day 2009, in support of Comic Relief, a charity campaign which, in over 20 years, has raised over £500m to support projects across the globe, from helping disadvantaged young people in the UK, to supporting those in dire poverty or suffering from HIV and AIDs in third world countries.
They teamed up with iPlatform to allow Facebook users to donate their status’s to help spread the word about Red Nose Day this week - the app has launched today. Click here to go to the app and donate your status!
Brave New Talent is an innovative new social media recruitment service which connects under-graduates to companies they’re interested in working for. They are also leading up the search for One Young World, an event in 2010 where 1,500 25 year olds from across the globe will come together to discuss the future.
We’ve been lucky enough to work with Brave New Talent throughout their development, helping with their social network strategy, and integrating the whole of their site with the iPlatform - allowing users to access all functionality within their social networks.
The site’s in alpha at the moment, but you can sign up here, and of course on the Facebook application here.
The iPlatform has saved BraveNewTalent.com time and money. The simple solution integrates our technology to the major social networks on the web. This means we can focus on building a larger user base internationally by tapping into the world’s largest communities. It has been a pleasure to work with Josh and Dan as well as the rest of the iPlatform team. These guys are true social media evangelists. I would highly recommend using their solution to make your business more social.
Lucian Tarnowski, Founder and CEO BraveNewTalent.com
Brave New Talent inside Facebook, through the iPlatform
Thanks to Marc Berry for the awesome photo
You can read a full write up of Josh’s pitch on his blog, here.
We’ve been working on the iPlatform, in stealth mode, for most of this year. The iPlatform fully integrates external websites with multiple social networks, including Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. We can’t release the full details of how it does this just yet; but if you subscribe to this blog then you’ll be the first to hear about it publicly and get to see a proper video demo (which we’re recording on Monday!).
Over the past few months, we’ve been talking to key clients and partners in the industry to measure their response, and have now started to integrate with our initial launch partners, across a range of industries. Our ‘official’ release date is early October, when we’ll be going live with some of these clients; although if we’re feeling generous we may drip feed more information prior to this. It’s been a hard slog so far, and it’s set to get even busier in the coming months.
Who are we? The founders are myself, Joshua March (CEO) and my business partner Dan Lester (CTO). There are a number of other key staff who you’ll be hearing about in due time. We’re bootstrapped so far.
You can find us here:
If you want to get in touch, feel free to email me at joshATtheiplatform.com.