Alex Halliday

So the blog has been neglected recently. Sad times…..But I have been busy working on the impending launch of our new service which we hope to be rolling out soon. The 10 person team putting it together are working amazingly hard to get it ready and I can’t wait to get our large-scale BETA program going. Although the core product is ready, we are busy adding help, making more intuitive and polishing of the sales and admin side of things.

So what is it I hear you ask? Well, it’s a DIY social networking service. Any group, business, society, school etc can create a completely customisable social experience for their members. We want to help the administrators and organisers of these groups have an easier time of running things and we want their members to have more tools to interact.

At the beginning of the month the whole team went off to Miami to the Future Of Web Apps organised by the lovely people over at Carsonified. It was a truly amazing experiance. We have been stuck in our office (or the programming sweatshop as it is referred to) for the past year and it was nice to meet some other people working in this exciting industry.

Highlights for me included Cal Henderson who managed to make subversion into a stand-up comedy, and Brian Oberkierch who gave us a fascinating workshop on brands and marketing web apps (i am a massive fan of his blog and podcasts). I also massively enjoyed the team from Remember The Milk and am now an avid user.

So in the next few days we should have finalised the name of our service and should be ready to roll! If anyone is interested in becoming a BETA group for us, then just drop me an email amhalliday at gggggmaaaaillll.com or twitter me alexhalliday.