iPlatform

iPlatform is a technology company that specialises in building social applications for the Facebook and Facebook Connect Platforms, as well as campaign management technology for fan pages and conversation based marketing.

Launched in early 2008, iPlatform works with some of the biggest agencies and brands in the UK and Europe, delivering multiple major Facebook based brand campaigns every month. Their team are experienced in planning, designing, building and maintaining social applications, from simple quizzes to large interactive flash games.

iPlatform have their own proprietary competition platform, allowing brands to run full UGC competitions inside their Facebook fan pages, with media upload (including integration with Facebook photos), voting, comments and leaderboards. A bespoke admin website for each client allows the platform to be used to run either large single competitions, or to run continual daily or weekly giveaways.

For fan page management, iPlatform have a number of tools to assist in management & moderation, content distribution and reporting, built to help agencies and large brands run their social campaigns more effectively.

Joshua March, Co-founder & CEO

Josh is an entrepreneur and specialist in the online and social media industry. He's been involved in the social network application space since Facebook first launched their application platform in 2007, and is Chairman of the Facebook Developer Garage London, a monthly non-profit event for social network developers sponsored by Facebook and Sun Microsystems.

Dan Lester, Co-founder & CTO

Dan is a highly experienced developer and technical architect, with a double first in maths from Oxford and five years experience developing software in the finance industry before leaving to work on his own projects. He was living in San Francisco when the first social network application platforms launched in 2007, where he built Open Socket, an Open Social container for Facebook, before moving back to London to found iPlatform with Josh.

Zai Iskandar, Account Manager

Zai is an experienced account and project manager and communications expert with a background in online PR and social media. During this time she worked for major clients across travel, food and drink, consumer electronics and broadcast such as Sony, BBC, Baileys and Hotel Chocolat, advising on social media strategy and managing events. She joined the iPlatform team in 2009 to manage our major accounts and campaigns.

Check out Josh's blog: http://www.joshuamarch.co.uk/
and the iPlatform blog here: http://theiplatform.com/category/news/