I am proud to announce that Podclass is the recipient of the fbFund grant from Facebook! Our Facebook application Podclass is one of 10 companies chosen as a recipient out of about 1,000 applicants. We are among the first group of companies to receive the fbFund and were featured at Facebook’s f8 held on Wednesday in San Francisco.

Our team has been working very hard to get our Facebook application working with the latest profile changes that Facebook has implemented, as well as improving the application all together.

On Tuesday evening, Facebook had a reception for the fbFund recipients at the Grand Pu Bah and I had the opportunity to meet fellow fbFundees as well as some other nice people from Facebook, Accel Partners and The Founders Fund.

The next day was the f8! Being an fbFund exhibitor was an amazing experience and opportunity for Podclass! Tim Higgs, one of our developers from New Zealand flew out to join me for the f8. Our exhibit booth showed off our new demo video that we’re very proud of as well. We had a universally excellent response from everyone we showed our app to!

Other than Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote and Ben Ling’s presentation, I wasn’t able to attend any of the other sessions because we were manning the booth the entire time.

All of the fbFund recipients had the opportunity to do our “elevator pitch” during the fbFund session moderated by Cat Lee at the end of the conference. Lots of fun!

Tim and I had a great time meeting people, talking about Podclass and hanging out with friends during the after party, where the band Thievery Corporation played.

More to come on the fbFund experience!

We are excited to announce the public beta of the Podclass Facebook application. (We actually launched the application on March 4th, but we’ve spent the last month working out bugs and fine-tuning features)

Just as a user can do at Podclass.com, the Podclass Facebook application enables any Facebook member to teach entire courses (both free and paid) and expose them to their entire network of Facebook friends - without ever having to leave Facebook.

Course listings can even be shared with Facebook friends who don’t have the application installed.

Currently the application has the following features:

• Teach free and paid courses
• Sign up securely for free and paid courses
• Add courses that you are already enrolled in
• View all content, including video, audio and text from within Facebook
• See your friends courses (courses they are taking and teaching)
• See who else is enrolled in Podclass courses
• Post to course discussion boards
• Post to course walls
• Ability to become Gold or Platinum member through using the application.

We are working on even more features that should be in place within the next month or so. Please check it out and give us your feedback!

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