We’ve been doing a lot of work under the radar for a couple of months and there are some exciting developments at Treasuremtext. The first of these is that we now have an advisory board. The purpose of the advisory board is to add some skills and experience to our team; specifically in the area of mobile operators, and raising finance. We’ve been looking for people who can help us develop Treasuremytext; to improve the product, to reach a wider audience and to develop links with new partners. We’re very pleased and honored to announce that Ian Hay, Imran Ali and Kerim Satirli are now on the Treasuremytext Advisory Board.
Imran Ali is a founding partner of Carbon Imagineering, a UK-based emerging technologies think tank, incubating a number of startup projects, working with media properties such as O’Reilly Media, Corante, and Giga Omni Media. Previously, Imran has been a Deputy Director of R&D for Orange UK, part of the advisory boards of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony conference and the eComm 2008 conference, as well as a cofounder of ensembli. Imran is bringing design & innovation sense, global contacts and funding experience to the team having been a part of the success of various early stage startups. www.imranali.name
Ian Hay is Head of Emerging Technologies at Orange and is bringing mobile operator experience to the team helping us to ensure Treasuremytext is an attractive proposition for operators worldwide. Ian’s expert technical background means we’re able to ask him ‘the difficult questions’ and get valuable help and support on infrastructure and technology strategy. http://ikisai.wordpress.com/
Kerim Satirli is a 2.0 advocate, specializing in influencing user opinion. Active and influential in the European Social Media community, Kerim is bringing his experience of “being 2.0″ to the team and will be helping Treasuremytext to develop new methods of integrating SMS services into other social spaces. http://kerimsatirli.com/
We’re looking forward very much to working with Imran, Ian and Kerim in coming months.
If you want some I *heart* SMS stickers, we’re happy to oblige. Just send your name and address and we’ll stick some in the post. Send your sticker requests to iwantstickers
After a rather busy few weeks of meetings (some big announcements coming soon) and meetups (Techcrunch Amsterdam was great and we made loads of new buddies), we’re looking forward to a busy summer with yet more meetups and barcamps. Next up is BarCamp Leeds.
Organised by Imran Ali, and to be attended by a great line up of UK startups, BarCamp Leeds is gonna be great! From the attendee list so far it looks like a good contender to rival BarCamp Manchester! A bit of friendly rivalry’s a good thing!
We will of course be there to show new features in Treasuremytext and Treasuremytext for iPhone, and perhaps Paul will do a WebObjects related session??
We now have iPhone Developer Status! 25,000 applied to the programme and 4000 have been accepted to date. This is great as it means we can get our next gen Treasuremytext iPhone app ready sooner. (And also make other great things for iPhone).
We’re at WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference) and this morning was the Keynote. Apple fans will have already heard the news of the forthcoming iPhone 3G (launching, and in many more countries) July 11th. There’s so much news it’s hard to know where to start and the atmosphere is really amazing; everyone’s very excited about the new 3G iPhone, iPhone 2.0 software, the forthcoming launch of the iPhone App store, and the new .mac: “mobileme“. - Oh and yeah, there’s no SMS synch in mobile me 
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We’re loving what is about to happen with the iPhone and really looking forward to developing apps for iPhone and to the launch of the App store. Right now, we’re sat in the Mac OS X State of the Union session.
We’re learning a lot, getting loads of inspiration for how to enhance Treasuremytext and interoperability with iPhone, and we promise to deliver more updates here as the week unfolds.
Treasuremytext is built using Apple’s enterprise level development framework WebObjects. Ahead of WWDC this week, Paul has been busy at the World WebObjects Developer Conference organised by the WebObjects Community.
Paul will no doubt post in more detail later, but here are some pics for the conference!
Kerim’s been busy with the stickers!
We *heart* that, Kerim!
Treasuremytext is in San Francisco from June 6th to June 17th, and will be at WOWODC and WWDC and many other events, meetings, and parties. As well as working our new Treasuremytext for iPhone app, it looks like we have a pretty busy schedule. It was great to hook up with the Wakoopa guys on the plane from Amsterdam yesterday and we’ll be hanging out with the lovely Sofa people and other friends later on.
Treasuremytext attended the E-Services forum in Liverpool today and was commended for our presentation about the service. It was a great event and I met some great people. It was really cool to hear from edocr, Wadja, Momote, Screen Reach, Phonefromhere, Liverpool Ventures, Merseyside ICT and more!
The forum, part of i-techpartner was organised by Marie at AIMES and as usual it was an excellent event.
“The eServices Forum offers a unique setting with pan-European networking for top entrepreneurs, R&D leaders, investors and experts from the eServices sector. This is a unique opportunity to connect with the whole value chain of technology innovation, from R&D leaders via entrepreneurs and investors to international corporations with global market access.”
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