CEO & Founder - fav.or.it
Reading, United Kingdom
- Current
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- CEO & Founder at fav.or.it
- Co-Founder at Assembleron Limited
- Past
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- Development Manager at Open Interactive (BSKYB)
- Senior Producer at Empire Interactive
- Senior Producer at Argonaut Software
- Education
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- Longfield Secondary School
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Nicholas Halstead’s Summary
In late 2007 Nick setup a new company focusing on delivering filtered news to the masses. Nick was one of the first to declare RSS dead as a consumer experience and has focused his efforts on building products that deliver the right news to the right person. In early 2008 the company in one weekend built an experimental website called TweetMeme - this was the first link Twitter link tracker.
TweetMeme was left to languish for 10 months when in February 2009 Nick refocused his efforts back on it and in a matter of months TweetMeme was the No. 1 source of Twitter sourced news. Now 7 months later TweetMeme is serving 1.9 Billion retweet buttons a month and still growing.
Nick has been in development for 20 years 15 of which was in the highly competitive games industry. He has a passion for all things technical and is still responsible for the development at the 10 person team at favorit.
Nicholas Halstead’s Specialties:
• Technical Development
• Project Management
• Studio Management
• Test & Support Management
• Business Development
• Certified PHP Engineer
Nicholas Halstead’s Experience
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CEO & Founder
fav.or.it
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
We build the next generation of Social Media sites, the first was fav.or.it and now we also have the highly popular tweetmeme.com
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Co-Founder
Assembleron Limited
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
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Development Manager
Open Interactive (BSKYB)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Managing all internet & external development, building the overall strategy for the future of games on Sky's Digital platform. Acquisition of new licenses to develop on the SKY platform (These included “Tetris”, “Pipe Mania” and “Worms”.)
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Senior Producer
Empire Interactive
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 3 months)
Management of internal and external team projects using technical skills to oversee all projects from a technology front. Responsible for all recruitment and ensuring continuous improvement in development procedures company wide.
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Senior Producer
Argonaut Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1990 — February 1996 (6 years 2 months)
Nicholas Halstead’s Education
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Longfield Secondary School
1984 — 1990
