Social Applications Platform Cliqset Raises $1.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 1, 2009 - 7:54am.

Jacksonville, Fla. - Cliqset, a platform that aims to help developers and users create, organize and share social information on the Web, desktop and mobile environments, announced on Monday that it has raised $1.5 million in angel funding, from Vurv Technology founder Derek Mercer.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Cliqset also launched the second beta release of its platform on Monday, which integrates data from more than 30 third-party social networking services and applications, allowing developers and users to push and pull information from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other sites.

The new release includes location-based capabilities, which integrate with Brightkite, Fire Eagle and Twitter.

Cliqset has also launched a developer challenge that will award $30,000 in prizes to those creating new uses for the platform.

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