Brain Fitness
Crazy week. Facebook launched their API “Platform” and we have been on high alert ever since. We immediately got our biggest client’s widget on Facebook. They should be announcing it very soon. We went to the drawing board to huddle on how to best get Chipin onto the Facebook platform without just embedding a widget. We came up with an elegant and innovative approach that is going to blow people away! Luckily we had a pretty crack set of contractors already signed up to work on a new Chipin.com and a couple stealth projects. As with most startups, we needed to be agile to a changing market, so we quickly re-deployed resources (100% of resources) onto our FB-Chipin app. The plan is to launch it hopefully by the end of this week.
Look for more updates here soon. If you want to volunteer to help us beta test the new product, drop us a line: contact
Also a big shout out to Rob and Olin for work on the Big Ideas website at U.C. Berkeley (go bears!). It was one of our very early integrations of the Chipin Widget with an external client. An article about the site was even posted up as the front page of the Drupal.org site today.
A couple articles on the project:
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200701/goldwitz.asp
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/13/berkeley_marketplace.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/31/BAG1VNAMD71.DTL
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200701/goldwitz.asp
“Cal students have great ideas for addressing some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. This marketplace will help them mobilize additional financial and in-kind resources to support their ideas, and recruit additional committed students.”
- Robert Birgeneau, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor
“Big ideas at Berkeley inspired me to pursue and develop a concept that I had always thought was pie in the sky. Now I see the idea as ripe opportunity for transportation reform, and myself as an agent of change.”
- Kevin Shively (2006 Bears Breaking Boundaries/Green Cities winner)
“This is absolutely AWESOME! Incredibly well constructed and one of the most innovative student services I’ve seen in all my time here.”
- Ilan Gur, Ph.D. - Materials Science & Engineering, UC Berkeley
“Serving as co-president for Berkeley Nanotechnology Club, which is funded by Big Ideas, has been the most valuable experience of my grad school. The skills and knowledge that I acquired through interaction with business students, industry experts, and venture capitalists helped me a lot in getting a bigger picture of things and seeing the light!”
- Bala Pesala, co-president, Berkeley Nanotechnology Club,
“Tom Kalil is always willing to open up his rolodex and help us make connections with people across Berkeley and the professional community.”
- Tim Kuruvella, co-president, Berkeley Biobusiness Association
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hey there,
It’s neat to see companies making FB a priority, especially since myspace so clearly dropped the ball on working with outside companies. They’re a platform worth building on, and that value will only increase now that they’ve reached the tipping point.
I’d be happy to help you beta test it, but you didn’t finish that sentence in your blog post.
Aloha,
- aaron
June 5th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Hello? Do you guys reply to comments?
(You’re sending mixed messages when you invite people to get involved (as above, and again in your next post where you ask for volunteer translators) but then ignoring them…)
June 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Aaron,
Sorry for the slow reply. Not enough hands and too many tasks. Yes.. we really do appreciate your offer to help us test. I am updating the blog post… brain fart. Went to look up the correct email address and then forgot to post it.