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Manchester-based Wakelet gets investment from Angry Birds

Wakelet announced today that it has successfully closed a £1 million investment round from investors on both sides of the Atlantic, including the original publishers of Angry Birds, Chris Byatte and Joe Wee.

This investment provides the foundation for the launch of the Wakelet platform that has already attracted individual users, public organisations, sports teams and businesses from across a wide spectrum.

In a world of information overload, big data and real-time streams, search engines work hard to index the ever-growing amount of online information.

The Wakelet platform provides simple and intuitive tools that give users the ability to organise and curate links to articles, videos, images, documents and audio into easily maintainable collections called Wakes.

Wakes can be created in minutes on any topic and can be made public, kept private, or shared with friends, family, colleagues or the wider web.

Because of the way the platform is designed, there are extensive ways in which Wakelet can be used, including knowledge sharing, discovery and research.

Jamil explains: “While search algorithms help us find isolated pieces of information faster, they don’t know which ones are most relevant to us as individuals.”

“Wakelet brings a human touch to this process, by giving us the ability to easily collect and organise anything we read, view or listen to in a way that’s useful to us and to others.”

“Wakelet starts where web search ends.

“As smart as computers and search engines might be in indexing the web, they can only ever do part of what’s needed to organise information.

“We need a better way, a way that’s focused around humans.

“So we created Wakelet to put control back into the hands of people who ultimately use the web.

“We empower people to organise their own personalised web in a more meaningful and visual way.”

Joe Wee comments: “Wakelet takes web and mobile organisation to an entirely new level of personalisation and collaborative sharing. It is genuinely useful, and the user interface is beautiful.”

Chris Byatte adds: “Mass adoption of this disruptive platform will be the biggest phenomenon to hit the Internet in the coming year.”

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