March 28th, 2011

Utopic finds an Angel in Skype chief technical architect Ahti Heinla

Utopic, the service that lets you see what content is trending amongst your friends, has closed a $70k convertible note from a number of angels, including Ahti Heinla, one of the founding team of Skype and its chief technical architect.

We’ve also learned that Vitaly Rubstein has also participated. He is an ex-majority owner and the “product brain” behind Russia’s largest social network… → Read More

March 3rd, 2011

Utopic lets you see what content is trending amongst your friends

It’s not an entirely new idea: offer a way to view trending content shared by your friends via social media. That’s the basic premise of Utopic, the latest project from the team behind Talentag, the “social CV” that we profiled last August.

In its first iteration, Utopic is entirely reliant on Facebook – support for Twitter and YouTube is forthcoming – and after logging in with Facebook Connect… → Read More