New Blog

For the last wee while we've had our heads down working on the source code for LiveAps version 2.0. We've basically had to do a full rewrite so the product will scale how we want it to.

During that time I've been developing a new blog which is located at www.fletchnz.com, and any future posts will be published there.

I've had to setup a new feedburner account so if you've like to be kept up to date via RSS or email, please visit the new one and re-subscribe there.

Just so you know, Andrew Campbell, our new Chief Architect, is hopeful LiveAps version 2.0 will be stable in the next few days - but knowing software, I'm thinking we should realistically aim for late July/early August.

I look forward to seeing you at fletchnz.com - I'll be posting there regularly now as my input into the source code is virtually over and I can re-concentrate on business development.

Liveaps Outage

We're currently having a technical difficulty with our server providers and will get the system back online as soon as we can.

Drinktank London

I attended the Drinktank Event at the Firehouse Bar and Club in Kensington last night as part our new 'networking' initiative we've recently embarked on.

I managed to catch up with Danvers Ballieu (pictured on the left below) from Winston and Strawn who's looking to handle our series A funding round, so to have a beer with him was a pleasure - along with the guys from Huddle (middle and right of photo) who organised the event.


Being a club, the drinks were fairly pricey but that was alleviated somewhat by drink vouchers kindly sponsored by Skywrite Communications.

In terms of new contacts, Victoria McEvedy of McEvedy and Associates was interesting to talk to and it looks like she may help us protect our IP as she has worked with Winston and Strawn previously, and is a Digital Media specialist who knows what she's talking about.

David Roberts explained to me a little of what The Filter are up to and that looks intriguing and well backed. Think Last.fm + musicovery.com extended into additional media than just audio.

Simos Kitiris from PeoplePerHour.com has around 6,000 people now globally contracting their services through his short term employment site.

Then later when the event wound down I met up in Covent Garden with Jonty Bankes (bass player with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain) and Franca (hope I've spelt that right :-), his new partner from Germany and whom it was a pleasure to meet. By the way, the Ukes are certainly worth a search on YouTube.

Elevator Pitch Makeover

We're currently finishing off coding version 2.0, giving the brand a touch up, and reworking completely our Elevator Pitch - in fact we're making two new videos. One will be aimed at consumer's letting them know what we can do for them - and the other will be aimed at Angel Investors who may be interested in our series A funding round. So sorry there's nothing for you to see today. However, if you are curious as to what our software does you could take a look at the video below showing the workings of version 1.0. It's not great in terms of version 2.0 look and feel but you'll get the idea :-)