Take Me Out is the provocative, visual and electrifyingly funny dating show where one male contestant attempts to impress 30 women with the aim of securing a date with one of them by the end of the night. The past series of the TV show launched to an audience of 6.3 million and rated number one for young adults across its primetime slot.

The Take Me Out Flirting app, developed by leading multimedia social app developers Handmade Mobile Entertainment, will enable users to set up their own profile and find their ideal dating partner by using the chat, flirt,virtual gifting  and virtual currency features within the app. Fans of the show will be able to connect with each other, chat with past and present contestants of the show, as well as have the chance to become a VIP in the virtual resort of ‘Fernandos’.   The app can be downloaded from the app stores or accessed on web and mobile web from www.takemeoutflirting.com.

Dominic Burns, SVP Licensing UK, FME said: “We are constantly looking at ways to extend our audience’s experience of our hit entertainment brands and feel that the Take Me Out Flirting app does this perfectly. By working alongside Handmade Mobile Entertainment we have been able to recreate the tongue-in-cheek and flirty nature of the show for the multi-platform market.”

Matthew Dicks, CMO, Handmade Mobile said: “It is with great enthusiasm we have the opportunity to work with Fremantle for the development, monetization and marketing of the Take Me Out Flirting service.  The partnership is perfectly timed to execute a best in class app that builds on the reach of the TV broadcast.”

Take Me Out first launched in the UK on ITV1 in January 2010 and has since achieved massive ratings in its primetime Saturday night slot. Local versions of the are produced in 18 countries worldwide including Spain, Germany, China and Australia. The new series premieres on ITV1 on 7^th January, 2012.

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“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”- Oscar Wilde

Our engineers have spent several months carefully re-designing the product to take full advantage of the unique features offered by the Android platform. We have also listened carefully and taken into consideration the feedback received from existing customers and as a result have improved and enhanced the user experience by adding compelling new features.

In addition to making the product more user friendly and providing easier navigation, we’ve added the following key features and functionality:

• A search and location service including GPS to find users in your area.
• The ability to check into your hometown, the place where you reside now and add additional favorite cities & places to meet new people, whether that’s a place you’ve already visited or plan to visit in the near future.
• The ability to view millions of pictures & private photos in various formats including list view and full page photo view.
• The option to register and login more quickly using your Facebook account.
• Simplified feature and name changes within the app for easier navigation and usage e.g. Flirt Points are now Credits
• A new “Getting Started” section to help new users get accustomed to the product, features and options available to them.
• Localization of the app for Spanish, German & Italian users.

The new native Android app continues to allow users to have free live one-to-one chat and includes the successful value added services such as virtual gifts, premium discoverability tools and user generated advertising.  All of these services can be purchased by the user with Credits.

We’ve made buying Credits simpler enabling users to top up their wallet “on the go”. Billing for Credits on the Android app is seamless, this has been achieved by providing the best payment method depending on device, territory or the originating store the app was downloaded from.

To try the new Flirtomatic free Android app, please visit https://market.android.com/details?id=com.flirtomatic.flirtodroid

We’ll continue to listen to user feedback to make improvements and enhancements. It’s imperative to us that we continue to provide an outstanding service to all of our customers, for this reason we invite you to provide feedback by downloading the app and rating us in Android Market.

Job overview

We are a top rated and multi award winning mobile publisher with Global reach looking for a high performing territory manager to take over and run the US side of the advertising sales business. We are seeking a VP Advertising Sales who has established relationships at digital advertising agencies and is familiar with mobile ad networks and optimising revenues. This is an existing territory and the role demands an energetic, highly motivated, results orientated professional who can bring in new business, build and maintain relationships with agencies as well as growing from existing business. You will be knowledgeable of the mobile market, industry trends and digital advertising landscape and given free rein to develop this side of the business but most of all you must be about maximising revenue from the available inventory on WAP, Symbian, iOS, Android, RIM platforms.

We have a best in class mobile specific ad sever and able to target by age, gender, platform, OS, location, and have a number of established relationships with ad networks which currently fill this ad space which can be utilised to provide backfill support.

You will also be responsible for managing the day-to-day operational processes including full campaign set-up, trafficking and account management, optimisation and trouble shooting. You will be an ambassador for the company in this field at relevant US trade events, conferences and shows. This position has the benefit and opportunity to work from a home based office for the right applicant.

You will be expected to hit the ground running and will have full support from the Head of Advertising (UK)

Person Specification

Requirements:

• Previous experience in online or mobile advertising sales is a must
• Strong understanding of industry trends, mobile technologies and pricing models
• Excellent understanding of agency dynamics, campaign buying and planning
• Strong knowledge of ad campaign metrics and analysis
• Strong skills on all facets of the sales cycle including prospecting, negotiating, and the ability to sell on value and not just price
• Agency and client contacts is essential
• Complete and thorough understanding of audience profiles, mobile ad targeting, and campaign optimisation
  
• Proven communication, presentation, and sales skills with a focus on consultative selling

Personal qualities:

• Self-motivated and ability to achieve deadlines and work independently
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Ability to work with all cross company departments to achieve common goals
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and fun to work with

• CV
• Cover letter
• A brief outline on what you’d love to be doing this time next year
• Why this position would be right for you
• Your daily media diet
• If you could create any app, what would it be?

Job purpose

The role encompasses, but is not limited to:

• Specialising in delivery of handset application including iPhone and Android

The implementation role is under the direction of the CTO, but the successful candidate will work in conjunction with Product Management and across the company. UI design is not part of this role, but product ideas are always welcomed by our Product Management team.

Candidates should be organised, self-motivated, confident with an agile programming pipeline and willing to ask questions when stuck.

Position accountabilities

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring technical specifications are complete, including operational and reporting requirements
• Implementation of Java-based integration modules with third-parties
• Communicating in a professional manner with internal staff and external providers both nationally and internationally
• Alpha-testing of new features
• Identifying bugs and implementing solutions in a timely manner
• Monitoring and maintenance of the solutions

From time to time, the candidate may be asked to work on certain presentation functions where a working knowledge of any of the following is useful:

• Web 2.0 development - XHTML, advanced JavaScript, AJAX, XML, XStream, JSON
• WAP development – XHTML-MP, WURFL
• Java (J2SE), Tomcat or similar, MySQ

Person Specification

Education/qualifications:

• Degree level qualification

Knowledge/skills/experience/requirements:

• Minimum of 1 year (ideally 2+) of hands-on application development for iPhones with Xcode / Objective-C
• A demonstrable sample of applications
• Demonstrable delivery experience with the following technologies: HTTP, XML / JSON
• Familiarity with the following tools & technologies is advantageous, but not essential: Eclipse, Apache, Linux

Personal qualities:

• Self-motivated and ability to achieve deadlines and work independently
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Ability to work with all cross company departments to achieve common goals
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and fun to work with

• CV
• Cover letter
• A brief outline on what you’d love to be doing this time next year
• Why this position would be right for you
• Your daily media diet
• If you could create any app, what would it be?

Job purpose

The role encompasses, but is not limited to:

• Integrating Flirtomatic’s application with third parties such as network operators, payment gateways and providers, messaging gateways and providers and advertising suppliers

The implementation role is under the direction of the CTO, but the successful candidate will work in conjunction with Product Management and across the company. UI design is not part of this role, but product ideas are always welcomed by our Product Management team

Candidates should be organised, self-motivated, confident with an agile programming pipeline and willing to ask questions when stuck

Position accountabilities

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring technical specifications are complete, including operational and reporting requirements
• Implementation of Java-based integration modules with third-parties
• Communicating in a professional manner with internal staff and external providers both nationally and internationally
• Alpha-testing of new features
• Identifying bugs and implementing solutions in a timely manner
• Monitoring and maintenance of the solutions

From time to time, the candidate may be asked to work on certain presentation functions where a working knowledge of any of the following is useful:

• Web 2.0 development - XHTML, advanced JavaScript, AJAX, XML, XStream, JSON
• WAP development – XHTML-MP, WURFL
• Handset application development – Objective-C/Cocoa, Java/Android, J2ME

Person Specification

Education/qualifications:

• Degree level qualification

Knowledge/skills/experience/requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years (ideally 6+) of Java (J2SE) server development in a high-volume, high-availability, multi-lingual environment
• Demonstrable delivery experience with the following technologies: Java/JSP, Tomcat, MySQL, SOAP, XML, server-side HTTP, asychronous and multi-threaded communications
• Familiarity with the following tools & technologies is advantageous, but not essential: Eclipse, Apache, Linux
• Knowledge of mobile phone and network technologies and terms is useful

Personal qualities:

• Self-motivated and ability to achieve deadlines and work independently
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Ability to work with all cross company departments to achieve common goals
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and fun to work with

• CV
• Cover letter
• A brief outline on what you’d love to be doing this time next year
• Why this position would be right for you
• Your daily media diet
• If you could create any app, what would it be?

Job purpose

The role encompasses, but is not limited to:

• Monitoring, security, support and maintenance of production servers.

Position accountabilities

• Day to day monitoring, support and maintenance on Handmade Mobile’s productions servers using the skills below.
• Design/install/configure and maintain production system
• Troubleshoot networking, hardware, operating system level problems
• Monitoring of production systems
• Security of production systems
• Ensure outages are kept to a minimum

Person Specification

Knowledge/skills/experience/requirements:

Competence in a significant number of the following technologies:

• In depth protocol knowledge of HTTP, SMTP and other common protocols. Able to look at tcpdumps and diagnose performance issues etc.
• Nagios, Cacti, NRPE
• Puppet, general automate-first attitude
• CentOS / RedHat
• RPM Packaging
• Tomcat
• MySQL, including HA strategies
• Apache
• HAProxy
• Squid
• Exim
• Linux-HA
• DRBD
• Bacula
• WordPress
• PowerDNS and Bind
• Java, JVM Tuning
• Ruby, Perl and Bash scripting
• IBM xSeries hardware, blade chassis, IBM Cisco blade switches and mid range servers
• Cisco Switching including VLANs, trunks, etc.
• Cisco ASA firewalling and clustering
• General knowledge of internet routing protocols like BGP, IP addressing and registry

Personal qualities:

• Self-motivated and ability to achieve deadlines and work independently
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and fun to work with

• CV
• Cover letter
• A brief outline on what you’d love to be doing this time next year
• Why this position would be right for you
• Your daily media diet
• If you could create any app, what would it be?

Job purpose

The role encompasses, but is not limited to:

• Planning and executing Test Cases across multiple platforms, partners and devices
• Reporting defects and other issues, using bug management software, and monitoring them from entry through to resolution
• Adapting testing to different project and business requirements
• Assisting with the management of site content files and network partner configuration files

Position accountabilities

Testing:

• Ensuring technical specifications are complete, including operational and reporting requirements
• Implementation of Java-based integration modules with third-parties
• Communicating in a professional manner with internal staff and external providers both nationally and internationally
• Alpha-testing of new features
• Identifying bugs and implementing solutions in a timely manner
• Monitoring and maintenance of the solutions

Bug/Enhancement Tracking:

• Web 2.0 development - XHTML, advanced JavaScript, AJAX, XML, XStream, JSON
• WAP development – XHTML-MP, WURFL
• Java (J2SE), Tomcat or similar, MySQ

Content & Configuration QA:

• Assist with the management of copy files to support internationalisation of the services
• Assist with the setup of product configurations across territories, networks and marketing partners

Person Specification

Knowledge/skills/experience:

• Degree-level qualification and minimum 3 years commercial experience in software testing
• Familiarity with web/mobile technologies and development environments e.g. Java, HTML, CSS, AJAX, XML, SQL, iOS, Android, Eclipse IDE
• Understanding of iterative/agile development methodology
• Experience with bug/enhancement tracking tools
• Flexibility in balancing defect priorities against broader team and business objectives
• Experience in mobile or telecoms in a high volume environment
• Experience testing on mobile handsets and emulators
• Experience managing testing throughout the software development lifecycle e.g. development testing, unit testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing, regression testing
• Experience in administrating QA metrics, such as defect profiles and performance to entry/exit criteria for test cases
• QA tester certification desirable
• High level written English, other languages a bonus

Personal qualities:

• Self-motivated and ability to achieve deadlines and work independently
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Ability to work with all cross company departments to achieve common goals
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and fun to work with

• CV
• Cover letter
• A brief outline on what you’d love to be doing this time next year
• Why this position would be right for you
• Your daily media diet
• If you could create any app, what would it be?

In a world where everything seems to be machine stamped or spit out from conveyor belts, we build products with our own hands and from the ground up. Not because it’s faster or cheaper than alternatives, but because we believe it reflects the spirit of who we are as a team. We are creative individuals committed to bringing people together in a safe environment where you can have fun while making genuine connections. Many have proclaimed that the world is a cold and lonely place. While that may at times ring true, we at Handmade believe it’s our job to be the change we want to see in the world.  In fact, it’s not just our job it’s our mission.

Sure, scalable solutions, distribution and revenue are the metrics our investors understand, but we insist the only way to achieve success by those measures is to make sure they are mere byproducts of our labors of love. If we are to succeed in our lofty ambitions, we will need your help. Not just as users of our services, but as the architects helping to shape and define them.

We have been busy re-designing our apps on iPhone and Droid with the web site and mobile web versions to change soon.  We’re really happy with the changes so far but want to know what you think.  You can leave your thoughts and opinions at feedback@flirtomatic.com or simply leave a comment below.   We are not doing this to appear virtuous or to comply with any legal requirement, we want to hear from you. You are not only customers you are a part of our team, and we are honoured to have you.

Sincerely,

Neil Goldberg

CEO

Handmade Mobile Entertainment