From there to here: The Story of USpace
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September 2020
JC Christensen leads the Virtual Storefronts crowdfunding kickoff on Indiegogo
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September 2020
Dan Tentler of Phobos.io becomes USpace's InfoSec Advisor
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July 2020
Retired Chicago-area CEO Mike Boyle joins USpace as Advisor to CEO
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June 2020
Virtual Storefronts link goes live with Support Local Business contest announcement -
May 2020
USpace announces development of Virtual Storefronts will move from 2021 to 2020 -
May 2020
Bulletproof Live airs May 06 hosted by Tim Radford of WKRK in Murphy, North Carolina. 1000+ views, Watch
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Apr 2020
USpace Support (bit.ly/USonFB), a support community for USpace Members, launches on Facebook.com
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Apr 2020
100 Lifetime Memberships go on pre-sale. USpace is available for the first time to business clients in advance of $36/month subscription. Limited to 100.
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Mar 2020
Port Miami: Covid Response Simulation video released March 25, 2020
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Feb 2020
USpace customers and staff work together to create the USpace Vision Statement: Online for the future
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Jan 2020
Startup journal SuperbCrew.com, founded by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, publishes feature Q&A with Tobin at USpace
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Jan 2020
USpace launches public Changelog to track technical issues and submit feedback
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Dec 2019
USpace i2.2 released bringing edit/delete across the platform; image support across all posts and status updates; and refresh advance to chronological Universal Feed
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Nov 2019
Andrews Field Office, 100 miles north of Atlanta in North Carolina, opens to bring USpace directly to small business clients.
WKRK broadcasts opening night remarks and demos Live from Andrews on Facebook drawing over 1,800 views
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Oct 2019
Graham Gintz joins USpace as Investor Relations Advisor
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Aug 2019
Tobin joins the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
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Aug 2019
Tobin marries Rachel Joy Aaron on August 05 in St. Simons, Georgia
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May - Dec 2019
Professional Services develops backend admin console on USpace for business subscription customers' premium service.
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May 2019
“One unsolvable problem to rule them all” becomes popular Privacy Matters video on YouTube
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May 2019
USpace.co public information website launches
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Apr 2019
USpace closes first round of outside investment; adds partners Greg Morin as Financial Operations Advisor and Tobin Sprout, founder of band Guided by Voices, as Media Strategy Advisor.
Yes, there are two Tobins at USpace
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Mar 2019
USpaceⓇ becomes registered trademark at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Mar 2019
USpace global web browser app launches at www.unpublished.space
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Feb 2019
"4 Reasons Why Social Media Has Become So Toxic and What To Look for Next" by Tobin is published in Entrepreneur Magazine with hundreds of shares
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Jan 2019
First public information website (legacy site at blog.unpublished.space) launches
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Oct 2018
@USpaceOfficial launches on Twitter for platform status updates and official announcements
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Oct 2018
Apple approves USpace iOS app for launch in Apple App Store
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Sep 2018
Google approves USpace Android app for launch in Google Play Store
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Aug 2018
First draft of USpace Mission Statement is completed
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Aug 2018
USpace Terms and Conditions and privacy policy are completed by a top DC privacy lawyer who is paid to remove data mining provisions built into a corporate technology template
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May 2018
USpace becomes incorporated as Unpublished Space LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability Corporation
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May 2018
Tobin invents “Advanced Permission Design,” the proprietary connection protocol that protects every person, and protects every organization connected on USpace.
With APD and a user interface (UI) design made to be adopted by the non-technical public, USpace becomes the first viable bridge between enterprise business and the general public since email.
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Apr 2018
Sam Agarwal becomes co-founder and CTO of USpace leading to the deployment of iOS and Android apps within 6 months
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Apr 2018
A friend from Oberlin College posts to Facebook, "There has got to be another way, personally and professionally, to keep in touch with all you wonderful people besides Facebook."
At that point Tobin was in the process raising seed money for 2018 development; sketching USpace app screens; and hiring professional designers and developers to build USpace on Android and iOS in 2018
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Mar 2018
Research, cost estimates, and preliminary plans are made to determine how, when and who will build a global privacy platform on iOS, Android and web.
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Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Tobin’s experience as a content marketing expert in Facebook’s sprawling, chaotic publishing environment combines with the social deterioration Facebook was causing in society to transform Unpublished.Space into USpace.
Tobin envisions giving valuable content a much better context. This desire merges with the idea of private access blogs and the first version of USpace is born in sketches.
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Nov 2017
Tobin purchases www.Unpublished.Space for 99¢ with an idea to host unpublished manuscripts by author friends with access controlled by the author - a kind of cluster of private blogs with authors controlling who has access.
This is the idea that eventually becomes USpace, where every member can share sensitive and essential content with safety, security, and privacy baked in from the start.
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