So there's good news and bad news...and great news

So, let's start with the good news. It's very simple. We're still here. And with the current economic climate the way it is, I'm personally very relieved and happy that's the case.


It's been a real rollercoaster few months for us here at Bright Spark. We've all been finding ways to stay busy and motivated and at times it's been tough, but it doesn't take much to remind us that we're exactly where we want to be, doing exactly what we want to do.

It all started with the release of TwitCal back in May, our first venture into designing and developing on top of the Twitter API. And that's where the bad news comes in.

It was a project we were very excited about when it first rolled out, but unfortunately we hit a pretty major barrier not even a month after it went live...

Being at the mercy of Twitter's search database proved to be the nail in the coffin when we found out they had started archiving it on a regular basis. Basically what that meant for TwitCal was that if you placed an entry into your calendar, it wouldn't be there in a months time. Annoying. We may still pick it up and try and resolve the issue somehow in the future, but for now we'll bow out gracefully and peg it up as a fun learning experience.

Anyway, as mentioned in the title, there's also some great news. And it's really great news. We were contacted at the beginning of June by an old colleague who said he had a piece of work we may be interested in. To keep a long story short, we were interested, and it turned out to be our first big break. In fact you couldn't get much bigger. We can't mention the brand right now (I know, I don't like to tease but I really can't say) but needless to say it's probably the most prestigious global brand in it's field, and it's a full dot com redesign.

So it might be a poor excuse, but we've been so busy of late, that's the main reason for us going dark for a while. We'll make more of an effort from here on in, afterall, the success of our company doesn't lay solely in this one project, no matter how big a deal it is. We're on course to go live with it at the end of August, so check back and we'll have more news soon.

In other news, we have a number of very interesting prospects on the table that will hopefully land in our laps in the coming months (we're not just saying that you a sceptical bunch - it's true!), as well as plans to launch our first iPhone app by the end of the year, which was actually the brainchild of a very famous comedy writer...