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Brightspot CMS gets Social with acquisition of Kick Apps Platform and Customers
Perfect Sense Digital acquires KickApps Social Media platform and enterprise customers, adding world-class social features and functionality to its Brightspot publishing platform.
RESTON, VA – December 12, 2012 – KickApps, a widely distributed social media application, is the first acquisition by Perfect Sense Digital, a full-service product development company based in Reston, VA. Perfect Sense Digital will integrate key social features into their Brightspot CMS, including identity management, social graph sharing and user-generated content tools in early 2013.
The KickApps acquisition signifies Perfect Sense Digital’s strong commitment to providing an innovative publishing platform (Brightspot CMS) to companies looking to evolve their digital presence on web and mobile platforms. The platform is coupled with Perfect Sense Digital's full-service and strategic product development capabilities including Content Development & SEO Strategy, User Experience Design, a world-class Engineering team, and 24/7 Hosting Operations.
“Combining social media capabilities with the existing Brightspot publishing platform will allow us to continue to help our partners power conversations between consumer brands and their audiences," said David Gang, CEO of Perfect Sense Digital. "We are focused on delivering unique content and technology solutions that enable our partners across all media."
Perfect Sense Digital recently partnered with The Coca-Cola Company on their launch of Coca-Cola Journey. For The Coca-Cola Company, Perfect Sense Digital worked with their internal team to develop a content pipeline and workflow, and to transform their digital team into a best-in-class digital publishing group. Coca-Cola Journey was the 24th project launch for Perfect Sense Digital, continuing to deliver on it's mission of making each part of the digital solution well thought through and high performing. “Perfect Sense Digital combines a deep publishing expertise with excellence in execution,” said Ashley Brown, Director of Digital Communications and Social Media at The Coca-Cola Company. “Our partnership is frictionless and flawless, and their passion is palpable.”
“We will be the first platform to deliver a seamless social publishing experience, providing a coordinated approach across all digital touch points which will eliminate the multiple sets and platforms required to reach our audience today.
”-David Gang, CEO
With the KickApps product acquisition comes existing enterprise client relationships with numerous media, consumer and sports brands including The Washington Redskins, Turner, BET and TheWeatherChannel.
Perfect Sense Digital's Brightspot platform now powers 16 media properties and recently added the ability to allow editors to effortlessly simultaneously publish content to all their digital experiences (desktop, tablet and mobile and all major social platforms) through a single editorial dashboard. “Integrating and delivering on social media programming is cumbersome for the leading content management systems,” added Mr. Gang. “We will be the first platform to deliver a seamless social publishing experience, providing a coordinated approach across all digital touch points which will eliminate the multiple sets and platforms required to reach our audience today."
About Perfect Sense Digital
Founded in 2008 by AOL technology executives David Gang and Lisa Malmud, Perfect Sense Digital helps companies materially change the way they do business online. Well known for the unique experiences they build with consumer publishing partners such as Scripps Networks Interactive, The Coca-Cola Company, IndieWire, SnagFilms, Healthgrades and USA TODAY, Perfect Sense Digital is a fast-growing digital products and professional services company based in Reston, Virginia with offices in New York City and San Diego, CA.
About Dari
Dari is an intuitive Java development framework that accomplishes a wide range of peripheral tasks to let developers focus on their application. Crafted over years of large-scale problem solving, Dari brings professional best practices into every developer’s workflow. Perfect Sense Digital released Dari under an Open Source BSD License. A support portal designed for further community development of the framework will be monitored and contributed to by Perfect Sense Digital.
About Brightspot
Brightspot is the publishing platform built on top of Dari. Each instance of Brightspot is transparently tailored to the business application it powers, as it is automatically generated from the specific data objects it handles. Brightspot is uniquely adaptable to change, and delivers a uniquely easy-to-use and familiar editorial experience. Perfect Sense Digital released Brightspot under a dual licensing scheme: GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) for the Community Edition, and an Enterprise License for our enterprise partners.
Looks pretty oversold and about to bounce over a buck.
I think many are underestimating Kaleil. Just watched Startup.com the other night and I saw a man who cared about his business... Cared about his people. So much as to terminate his brother.
We shall see, but I don't see this going under $3 in the near term.
Can someone tell me if there's a poison pill in effect? Haven't had time to look into it yet. If so, what are the terms?
Thx
Gl to all!!!
Looks like she found a bottom here.
I see they announced the earnings conference call nearly 3 weeks before the call. A far cry from the last few.
Lol... Indeed
We shall find out about our prototypes soon as well. I surely can't take 8 months for evaluations to take place.
I agree with everything you just stated.
We shall see regarding the revenue.
Apple has first dibs...
I have to believe there was revenue associated with the extension.
Apple locked it down!!!
Link didn't work for me, but I saw it before. Do you think it has anything to do with CSAC???
Just hammered the resistance around .27. Hopefully someone else finishes it off!
Anyone have any thoughts on the new iPhones antenna(s)?
http://www.blackpoolcreative.com/blog/version-2-0-the-new-iphone-5-based-on-leaked-parts/
Pretty cool rendering. Music fits perfectly. Y''all think the one in this video is made with Lm, aluminum or stainless? Joking
Been thinking about the volume buttons and why they're external when you have to unlock the phone to use them. Also hate when I accidentally flip the switch in my pocket and turn it to vibrate. Seams kinda redundant and a wasted cost. I guess it's good it happens though cause I can't hear my phone ring when it's in my pocket. Would be nice to have a better speaker. Apple looks to have a few patents that could address this though. Good fit for Lm. I like the hermetic gas filled speaker too. Doing a lot with coded magnets as well. JP good point on iron earlier. I wonder where Apple is with this.
Should see soon where all these rumors and patents lead and how Lm fits soon.
Looking forward to the new iPhone. Hope it doesn't look like my last two.
Apple has a lot riding on it. I got the impression from their cc that they're not worried at all.
Yes, I am speaking of that area when refering to the mill marks. The pictures do not appear to be authentic to me. The lines, shadows and holes don't match up if you drop it in say, autocad and overlay a grid.
Secondly, if you were using LM, why would you require an insert? Why add a secondary milling operation? Why wouldn't that section be part of a single piece mold?
I do believe LM will be used in a major way, but I don't believe this is authentic.
All IMHO
I also believe the technology is much farther than the public in general realizes.
There appears to be mill marks by one of the jack connectors and what appears to be exposed aluminum alloy in others.
This case doesn't scream innovation at all. It looks like an iPhone 4.
Doubt it will look like this at all.
Paige,
The storage temp for an iPhone is 45deg C, but I'm guessing the storage temp for most of the internal components range from 100-150deg C.
If the case were liquidmetal made of one composition.
Do you think the hermetic process could be be accomplished with a second liquid metal composition and achieve all of the following:
1. Be a localized process such that it wouldn't damage the internal components.
2. Wouldn't result in a metal mismatch.
3. The process temperature of the hermetic seal would be lower than the eutectic temperature of the case.
4. Glass to metal seal could also be achieved.
Could apple have developed an indestructible, waterproof iPhone?
The MTBF would be through the roof.
Regarding the patent itself...
Is it possible that the case be made of one composition and then hermetically sealed using a localized process and a second composition, such that it doesn't take the components inside above their storage temperature, nor reflow the original composition?
Question #2
"Milestone Payments"
LQMT got the whole $20MM the first time around, we don't know the details of the second contract.
If Liquidmetal is to receive these Milestone Payments in the second contract I don't see us getting paid a dime as we have no R&D currently and really have nothing to offer short of the original patent/IP?
From the S1/original MTA:
On August 5, 2010, we entered into a license transaction with Apple Inc. (“Apple”) pursuant to which (i) we contributed substantially all of our
intellectual property assets to a newly organized special-purpose, wholly-owned subsidiary, called Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC (“CIP”), (ii) CIP
granted to Apple a perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license to commercialize such intellectual property in the field of consumer electronic products,
as defined in the license agreement, in exchange for a license fee, and (iii) CIP granted back to us a perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license to
commercialize such intellectual property in all other fields of use. Additionally, in connection with the license transaction, Apple required us to complete a
statement of work related to the exchange of Liquidmetal intellectual property information. The Company recognized a portion of the one-time license fee
upon receipt of the initial payment and completion of the foregoing requirements under the license transaction. The remaining portion of the one-time license
fee was recognized at the completion of the required statement of work.
What was the statement of work for?
Do you think there was no revenue associated with it?
Do you think the recent extension had anything to do with the completion of this statement of work?
... and there is something to offer other than the original IP.
I have a feeling the extension has something to do with this.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20110163509.pdf
Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property
Inventors: Theodore Andy Waniuk & Quoc Tran Pham
How do you upload a jpeg here?
Thx
Lines up perfectly with hitting the .37 resistance (distance from the second trough to the peak between). Greater than a month on slide. Nearly a 20 percent pop between T1 and T2. Accumulation on under the wire news with low volume since. Should be able to pick back up at .30 when it turns to support depending on the news.
Picked up another 5240 today at .2721.
LOL... Every last penny I had availible to throw at it.
Shorts today ( . )
Shorts in a few days ( O )
How many shares ya short Monday? It didn't even hit .30.
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/BW/1751024845x0x541073/37e15be8-bc8a-4e7b-92db-fc37d3c81e64/2011_Annual_Report.pdf
Take a look at the iPhone on page 2 of Materions 2011 Annual Report. The first few pages aren't numbered.
Is it a filter?
Yes, I agree. It's a purely raw calculation.
The volume is the technical indicator on news.
Yes, the bollinger band trick works the other way too. The top band will fold up at the bottom of a downward trend.It's just an early indicator. I wouldn't use it alone because there could be another leg in either direction. Set your chart to candles, hourly, bollinger band with SMA and you'll see what I mean.
The bands are tight because there is no volitility and the trading range is soooo tight. There's still no volume. When volume hits, it's gonna pop hard. I still think there's news coming this week and thats what's going to cause the break. It's boring, but not concerning to me.
When it breaks, the bands are going to widen up quick. You can typically watch the lower band for an indication of when to start taking profits. When it starts to curl up, the initial run is coming to an end.
My two cents on the bands.
Watts,
Thanks for posting the injection molding cost worksheet.
We're very close in our estimates of 1 cycle or 100 grams of raw material.
I have it at $5.85 versus your $4.53 for 100 grams.
He're how I arrived at $5.85.
I calculated with the alloy composition of liquidmetal being:
(Zr,Ti)a(Ni,Cu)b(Be)c
Atomic percentages
a 40-75
b 5-50
c 5-50
I think the weight percentages of each element are:
Element........Weight %
Zirconium.......62.60
Titanium.........11.00
Nickel..............9.80
Copper...........13.20
Beryllium..........3.40
Sum.............100.00
To double check that these weight percentages make sense, I calculated the Atomic% of each element and came up with:
Element........Atomic %
Zirconium.......41.14%
Titanium.........13.78%
Nickel..............10.01%
Copper...........12.45%
Beryllium..........22.62%
Sum.............100.00%
or
(Zr,Ti)54.92(Ni, Cu)22.46(Be)22.62
So the weight %'s check out if the atomic composition is correct.
I have the following as the current cost/lb of raw:
Element........Cost/lb
Zirconium.......$16.657
Titanium.........$12.225
Nickel..............$7.2015
Copper...........$3.3893
Beryllium..........$402.426
Given the weight percentages previously mentioned, liquidmetal works out to:
$26.61/lb or .05688/g
with a cycle feed rate of 100 grams and a solidification shrinkage rate of .2%, you're using 99.8 grams a cycle.
This gives us a raw material cost of $5.85 per cycle.
If you can get 4 units per cycle, the raw material cost is only $1.46 per unit.
On a side note, while perusing Materions website, I can across something that caught my attention.
http://materion.com/Businesses/BrushBerylliumandComposites/markets.aspx
Take a look at the picture on this link. Anything standout??? How about the girl holding an iPad!!!!
Liquid's a lower cost, higher performance solution than they're currently using on the 4/4S.
http://www.chinaontrade.com/en/iphone-4-back-cover-panel-emi-shield-original-oem.html
It is an EMI shield!!!
Liquidmetal is making more and more sense to me everyday.
For comparison, I just weighed 2 backglass panels on a calibrated scale.
Apple OEM - 22.018 grams
Aftermarket - 21.648 grams
I'm amazed at the weight. Much heavier than I would have expected. This is without the added weight from the main chassis(side walls).
Something else to note... The back glass has a contact tab which touches a spring contact on the main circuit when the cover is installed. It appears to be lined with a conductive material. Is this used for EMI?
I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. Liquid could kill two birds with one stone.
I'll throw it under a microscope and make some resistivity measurements tomorrow if no one has an answer for this.
In case you're wondering why I have 2 back glass assy's in my posession. I've broken the damn glass twice because I didn't have a cover on it and it's not liquidmetal.
I'm 100% in alignment with you Watts
Yea I realize that...
With as hush hush as they are, I wouldn't be surprised if it was left out. They've been flat for over a quarter now, beat guidance and look what happened after hours. Can't think of a better way to break out of it in a major way other than to under commit and over deliver on the iPhone. Not to mention, it would be a great way to thwart Galaxy sales.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/366396/20120724/apple-iphone-5-release-date-ipad-mini.htm
Just another article that was released today, but what stood out to me was the following:
"iPhone 5 to debut in September," Kuo said. "But due to in-cell touch panel and casing yield rate limits, ability to offset older models' shipments decrease will be moderate."
If Kuo's statement is correct, it tells me the casing is being manufactured with an immature process. Just another tid bit that's making me a believer more and more everyday that the iPhone will have a Liquidmetal casing.
I can not think of another casing that may give the folks at Apple an issue.
On the CC tonight, they made it clear that they're going to deliver the best and let the rest handle itself.
I think an August 7th unveiling is very possible and probably the reason the monetary value of the Apple extension was left out of the announcement this time around.
Just a few thoughts on the day...
Scooped another 3300 shares at .28 today
Apple Q3 conference call link
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/12pijbnefviphbesdfvpihb7/event/index.html
Yea, I could see ~25 grams then. It really is amazing how strong it is. Comparing it in my head to a .016 6061 sheet of aluminum that you can cut with shears.
Ahhh... I see what you're saying. I'm saying the case alone would be 45 gram, not the entire iPhone.
I'm not following Watts.
Yes a nickel weighs 5 grams.
An iPhone 4S weighs 140 grams which would be 28 nickels, not 9.
Based on the density of liquidmetal (6.1 grams/cm3) from the datasheet published on the website and the rumored L x W x H (.1cm), I'm estimating a liquidmetal CASING to be 45 grams.
A few questions, while we're on the subject.
- Do you know of datasheets for other material compositions?
- Do you know the min/max thickness that can be cast?
- Is 100 grams of raw material input to the process equal to 100 grams of material output?
The metal composition makes all the difference in the world when it comes to density, but it will also effect melting point, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, etc, etc, etc.
Below is the link to datasheet used in the calculation.
http://www.liquidmetal.com/applications/properties/
I think a weight for the iPhone 5 with a liquidmetal case given the new rumored dimensions would be ~45 grams.
Liquidmetal Density = 6.1 gm/cm3
Approx dimensions of Iphone 5 casing = 12.5cm x 6cm x .1cm
Given the dimensions are correct, the volume would be 7.5cm3.
There for the weight would be around 45.75 grams.
... and that's paper thin!
That would easily cover it regardless of the units/cycle. Good find!
Liquidmetal headers, chassis and covers for high end electronics.
* Short lead time
* Reduced cost associated with manufacturing and BOM
* Eliminated CTE mismatches between material stackups
* Eliminated need for stackups between chassis ground and die
* Eliminated need for conductive epoxies, solder, or eutectic reflow in stackup
* Increased electrical performance
* Increased thermal performance
* Increased design for manufacturability
* Customized channels for RF isolation
* Increased MTBF
* Increased reliability
* Increased enviromental capability
A couple other things that are standing out to me regarding recent events.
1. There seems to be a coorelation to those low volume days and news releases.
2. The yahoo message board being down... I know it can be accessed via the address, however, the message board link is gone. Why do you think this was done?
3. Did the S1 ever hit the PR Newswire? I don't believe it did. Again, why???
All IMHO, we're all going to wake up one morning with this taking a MAJOR gap up. It appears to me that management is taking the precautions to preserve the PPS. As I tie everything together, I believe more and more that game changing news is very close.
I also don't believe it's going to take revenues to move this substantially. With Visser being the backbone of the manufacturing execution, I believe it will only take orders. Multi-year at that. Obviously, execution will come into play later.
All just my read. As always, invest on your own DD. Just sharing with a community I feel I have a common interest with.
GL... We'll all have to pick a beach in the Carribean to celebrate on when this hits.