Leftos

First, a little update. We’re working on revising our last set of designs and hooking them into our programming, so Leftos looks nice and pretty for all you people. It’s been a long and tedious process but design is such an important aspect of this project that we want to make sure we put our best foot forward. We’re about finished with all the profile pages and their related elements. After this we’ll be moving on to the Homepage/Leftos feed, the Login page, and the “Create your account” page. Then–we’re done and we can ready this thing for launch. Relatively speaking we’re close, and it looks like our official Alpha Launch will come sometime in April (we’ll announce the actual launch date soon).

In our last post we asked for your help spreading the word about Leftos and getting people you know to sign up for our Alpha. We received a good response and our sign up’s continue to increase daily, so we wanted to thank everyone who helped spread the word. Keep it up, we appreciate your continued support.

TechNow09

So then there’s the matter of this little event that we are presenting at called TechNow09. Well, that little event isn’t so little anymore. The TechNow09 team has been hard at work pulling in sponsors, presenting companies, panel members, and other elements that will contribute to the festivities. Here’s an update of what’s going on:

5 Presenting companies: Leftos, uwemp, bablur, ShopFiber, and hab.la

Discussion Panel: Larry Freed-CEO of Foresee Results, Chuck Newman- CEO of ReCellular, Jeff Bocan- Managing Director at Beringea, and John Kelley- Manager of Sales and Operations for Google Adwords.

(ya, i know…we got a guy from Google, pretty cool, eh?) Whats even cooler is that Google is supporting the event as well. Here’s the other companies behind the event…

Sponsors: Yelp, The Royal Oak DDA (downtown development authority), Safford & Baker pllc, Ann Arbor SPARK, Beringea, Korotkin Insurance Group, Title Source inc., Airfoil Public Relations, and Telemus Capital Partners.

Things are really coming together and it promises to be a really great night. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, make sure you do at the TechNow09 website. All the proceeds will be donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and we would love to have your support at the event.

That’s all for now, more to come in the next week or so…stay tuned.

Wow, we haven’t posted in a while have we? I guess that’s with good reason though — we just simply haven’t had much to report on lately. This isn’t really a bad thing… we’ve made good progress since then, and we continue to move closer to our finished product.

We’re still in the design phase, perfecting the look of our site before we connect it to our programming. We’ve had a few minor setbacks that have pushed back our launch date a bit, but nothing serious. (More to come on our launch date in the future, stay tuned).

For right now though, we actually want to ask you for a favor. As we near closer to this launch date it becomes increasingly more important that we have a large number of people signed up. Thus far, we’ve done fairly well with the number of sign-ups but with your help we think we can increase this dramatically. So what exactly are we asking you to do?

It’s simple–reach out to your networks, friends, family, co-workers, etc.. and ask them to sign up for our alpha launch at Leftos.com.

Remember, we’re only asking for their name and email address, and this information will ONLY be used to notify them of our launch and invite them to try our website. Also, each person only needs to sign up once.

Most likely if your reading this blog post, your either in one of our personal networks or your someone who is interested in our idea. Either way, were hoping that you’ll take a few minutes out of your day to help spread the word and show your support for us and for Leftos.

Thanks everyone and we’ll be back soon with more information about Leftos and our launch date.