Wipley, Social Gaming Platform

Wipley’s entrepeneurship team accumulate several years of experience in R&D issues related to information access, semantic technologies, information filtering, data mining, machine learning, etc. In recent years we have participated in various relevant R&D projects, and in particular we have been part of MAVIR, a research network co-funded by the Community of Madrid under the Fourth Regional Plan for Scientific Research and Technological Innovation (IV PRICIT) and formed by a multidisciplinary team of scientists, technicians, linguists aimed to develop an integrated effort in the areas of research, training and technology transfer.. ”

And beyond participating in MAVIR, we emerge as a spin-off of the project and we form part of the group of companies that, with the universities of the consortium, are part of this research network. We had talked previously about MAVIR, but until this January, we hadn’t formalized our role as a spin-off company and as a participant in MAVIR, and we didn’t want to go deeper in this issue.

In short, we are happy to be a spin-off of a project as MAVIR, being in contact with R&D that is done in the universities (and we’re also doing) and being in a more than adequate for innovation. We appreciate the help that Victor Peinado gave to us in all the process of becoming MAVIR’s first spin-off.

Until now, in the blog we have described Wipley’s goals, and some tools we have coded during the development of Wipley. But we had not presented to the enterpreunship team that is behind the project.

The enterpreunship team (and, until now, developers) of Wipley is formed by Francisco Carrero, Borja Monsajve and José Carlos Cortizo. Those people are lecturers at Universidad Europea de Madrid. From the academic perspective, they had a hughe experience of developing and managing R+D projects, including technology transfer and science difussion. They had formed part of more than 10 research spanish and european R+D projects that used technologies related to Internet, like contents filtering (spam and pornography), recommender systems, semantic web, etc.

Previously, and in some cases in parallel to their academic and research works, they had enterpreunship experience, as they had worked in several companies, and also have founded 3 technology start-ups in the last 10 years.

For more detailed information, each member of the Wipley crew are going to write a post about their personals trajectories and their vinculation to Wipley. We will link those post to this entry:

• Francisco Carrero
• Borja Monsalve
• José Carlos Cortizo

My friends from Wipley are working hard on developing the first prototype. I have been asking for trying some functionality but they don’t let me to go near their workplaces. At least, they gave me some previous designs that they are using to test ideas and select one for developing the final Wipley design.

Here yo have the 3 designs. I hope that you make some critics, tell me what you prefer from each design, etc.

Design 1: Inspired on Facebook. As Facebook is considered by Wipley crew as a reference Social Network, they have tried to modify the Facebook’s desing in order to adapt their colours and style. The design isn’t finished (some parts are cutted and pasted from Facebook) but it allows to see how it could seem.

Design 2: This design is more similar to standard social networks. It is inspired on Moterus and UGame.

Wipley developers says that the first design, as it follows Facebook’s philosophy, is centered on the interaction with your friends. The second one, is oriented to discover new contents not taking care about the authors (if they are friends/contacts or not). They have developed a mixed desing (design 3), with two areas that allows several kinds of interactions (with your friends, to discover new contents, etc.)

I already have my favourite design, so do you?

This week we have finished the design of Wipley business cards and we have sent it for printing to Vistaprint, an online printer that R4P crew recommended us.

We wanted to show some previous designs before in order to receive your feedback but we had no time. We hope to receive your comments about the business cards in order to receive feedback for future designs.