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Graduate focus: Tom Darlow - Wednesday 02 March 2011

Graduate focus: Tom Darlow
A GRADUATE from the University of Liverpool's School of Management is working on a new website that will allow people to share videos of dance music events. Tom Darlow, who runs the web design business Bright Headway at Liverpool Science Park, has teamed up with friends Michal Krzywinski and Sean Crossman to work on the site which is called helpfulsteve.com.

"We're building a web application to store all these videos and make it easy for people to browse through and comment," said Darlow.

"A lot of people are putting clips on YouTube which is great but it gets lost. We thought, let's build some kind of application that contains all of this and allows users to search by location, venue or event. There will also be some sort of social functionality."

They plan to have the site up and running by June, and are currently funding the development stage themselves.

Darlow, pictured, who studied marketing at the management school, started designing websites while still a student and carried on after graduation under the Bright Headway banner.

The business now counts greetings card brand Forever Friends and Bristol-based Ford Fuel Oils among its clients. It also works for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills-backed National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.