Yeah, we know, lots of things to fix on the site - Thanks for all the feedback, it's been constructive and encouraging, and it feels great to have a responsive audience.  Please keep the ideas and suggestions for how to improve Pikum! coming as well.

It's going to be a busy weekend here at Pikum! Besides fixing bugs, enhancing functionality, implementing the new design (awesome - thank you Derek!), pushing code updates, and responding to user input; we are also going to have a nice number of Pikums happening this weekend in the world of Rugby and Football/Soccer. This means work for our Cape Town Operations Team, and Sasha and her team will be busy making sure that datafeeds are functioning properly, scoring works, and incoming CS queries get addressed. Well, at least the office's got ocean views!

Next week's going to see us lifting the veil on Pikum! a bit more. We haven't actually done anything yet to promote our launch, for reasons Sean and I have explained in our previous posts. So you'll see a proper press release, a promotional event in London, our first set of baby-steps on the affiliate front (Araz is jumping up and down with excitement already), more celebrity Pikums and a bunch of other stuff to help spread the word.

We will also continue product fixes and improvements. Our product has so much functionality, and is highly automated/integrated with data sources, payment processors, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering services; plus it is computationally quite complex; and so it comes as no surprise that not everything was perfect when we pushed the trigger yesterday. This is compounded by cross-browser issues (Emily had a hard time registering on her Mac yesterday - talk about a poor experience!) and new design still being updated in many of the product's pages - and you got quite the challenge (no pun intended). But we will get there, the team is working on it systematically and with a clear framework to prioritize the hundreds of known bugs and issues.

So now the big question is - who will be the first real-money Pikum winner? Can't wait to congratulate the lucky one.

Happy Piking, and pls stay tuned for more Pikum! news

-johannes