Happy New Year!

Stunning Christmas charm is behind us, now time to think what we’ve done this year…
Was it good? Did we get most of it? Do we regret some actions? We believe that everyone deserves the best and that every next year will be better. We’re human beings – we eat, we pray, we love. We are the world, we can change it, we can make it so much better!

So think at least about one small thing you could change in your life for better and contribute in improving the world by starting from you. There is still time to make New Year’s resolutions

Thank you for supporting Rummble during this year, thanks to you (our beloved users) we managed to achieve and release a lot of amazing things and we’ve met very special people.

• Recommend a Place app on Facebook
• Facebook Integration and Twitter connection
• Organized the very first Rummble Pub Crawl
• Launched an amazing iPhone app with WAYN
• Hired new awesome people! Guys, you’re the best!

Please accept our sincerest New Year wishes packaged in a beautiful way:

Remember – share the love, go to amazing places and be the active part of the real world!

Merry Christmas everyone!

It’s been an unforgettable year for Rummble…

We’d like to take this moment to say thank you for supporting us and keeping the Rummble dream alive. The Rummble Team send you our best wishes to you and your closest.

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past,
courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings
rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

~Agnes M. Pahro

Happy Holiday!
The Rummble Team

Christmas Places with a Festive Cheer

For the best Christmas experience we hardily recommend going out to explore the Christmas markets in London. Head out and get your shopping done in festive style, there are so many places to visit during this period!

This year sees a selection of well known areas holding their own Christmas markets including :

• Old Spitalfields Market
• Smithfield Market
• Covent Garden Market
• Borough Market
• Farmers Markets
• Greenwich Market
• Portobello Market
• Camden Market
• Stables Market
• Southbank Market

All markets are inviting shoppers to browse a range of exclusive items and vintage goods. Shoppers will be having a massive choice for Christmas 2010 so if you’re fussy you’ll definitely find something you like.

It’s a great opportunity to take your family, meet your friends or colleagues outside and enjoy a beautiful Christmas Market with a festive cheer at this unique time.

Rummble for Android Update

Here are updates from the last few releases of Rummble for Android app:

• Homescreen: changed the tabbed layout to the homescreen, which makes the app faster and more stable.

• Facebook Integration: the app supports a single sign-on now, you don’t have to enter your Facebook credentials in the app.

• Mark venue as closed: added a feature to mark a venue as closed, and see if a venue is marked as closed.

• Bugfixes: publishing a check-in now works with the full international character sets; fixed a review error with Android 2.2.1

and many more

Please remember to visit the Rummble UserVoice if you’d like to give us some feedback, or simply email support at rummble.com.

Recommend a Place – Share Amazing Places With Facebook Friends

Travelling to new places is one of the most exciting and eye opening things you can do in your life, whether it be travelling to a new place nearby or even exploring a new country.

This is why we are very excited to be releasing a new product from Rummble today, we call it Recommend a Place. Recommend a Place is a simple Facebook app that collates recommendations from your friends about places to visit. So, how does it work? All you have to do is:

1. Tell Recommend a Place where you are going
2. Rummble has a quick chat with Facebook to see who’s been there or lived there
3. You confirm who you want to ask
4. Sit back and wait for the recommendations to come rolling in!

When somone has suggested something, you’ll see it right on your Facebook wall!

While I’ve been living in London my friends back in Australia have been visiting amazing places such as Malaysia and Thailand and discovering beautiful beaches, fantastic restaurants and cool shops.  When I eventually visit those places, I’m not going to want to miss out on the gems they’ve found.

Rummble Recommend a Place solves this problem, enabling me to quickly ask friends who have visited amazing places to share those recommendations, and allow them to share those great experiences with others too.

Planning a holiday or trip? Check it out today and within a few clicks you’ll have a list of places your friends recommend!

The Rummble Crawl summary

A big THANKS to all those lovely people who came to our event on Friday evening. We’ve had a great time with you! Don’t forget to review those places on Rummble.

Paulina, Daniel (Apps for Good) and Tim (Picklive)

For those who couldn’t come here are venues we explored:

• The Dog & Duck
• De Hems
• The Coach & Horses
• The Salisbury

Those pubs have been identified as one of the best pubs in Soho (London) and our task was to investigate and check if this is true.  During the evening we were ‘crawling’ to the  south part of Soho and in each pub we’ve had less and less Rummble T-shirts and mugs to give away.

The first was a popular with the media crowd - The Dog & Duck,  they serve a variety of beers, wines and spirits and can cater for private parties of up to 35 guests upon request. Average rate from Rummble – 6.1/10

Second one De Hems serves Dutch and Belgian beers (as Maria said – ‘Even an Austrian Stiegl beer is there!’) together with a choice of English and Dutch food. Entertainment includes a comedy night on Wednesdays.  The upstairs area with a bar was really cool,  nice and cosy.  Average rate from Rummble – 7.2/10

Third stop was The Coach & Horses – a little pub which when it get’s busy you can sit on wooden benches outside and you still feel as a part of it. They also have a Happy Hour before 4PM. Average rate from Rummble – 5.8/10

Our fourth and final pub was Victorian The Salisbury which has the most extraordinary items inside and exterior is decorated with fluted columns and mythical figures. The back bar can be reserved for private parties up to 20 persons.  Unfortunately they close at 12… Average rate from Rummble – 6.9/10

To sum up – we think that the best pubs in Soho are still unrevealed, it was an awesome opportunity to check the popular ones in a bigger group. We hope that you enjoyed it and didn’t have a hangover next morning!

Tim, Maria, Verena and Dominik (RjDj)

Some of you were asking us about future events – we have some good news for you, there’ll be a next one Rummble Crawl with no special reason This time we’ll organize exploring different kind of places in a various parts of London. Keep an eye on Rummble Blog, we’ll get back to you shortly

The First Official London Rummble Crawl

Rummble is organizing its inaugural London event: The Official Rummble Pub Crawl to coincide with the last day of the Internet Week Europe, on London 12 November 2010.

The Rummble team will gather at 6pm at The Dog & Duck. Most importantly, the first handful of people who Rummble (review) this first venue will get their drinks paid for! We’ll hit the town and be exploring the best pubs in London.

We’ve already picked some of our choices but won’t share our secrets with you just yet!  If you want to keep track of where we are or join us later, just follow us on Twitter @Rummble

The five day Internet Week festival has been set up to celebrate the very best of Europe’s digital industry, with events hosted by The Guardian, BBC, Yahoo!, Creative Review, Google, Tweetdeck and more. The whole idea started in the US, where the New York celebration has proven to be a success and it has been running for three years now.

We choose only amazing places so you can rest assured you’ll have a great time with us if you join!

Meet the Rummble team at Android Droidcon 2010

We are happy to announce that Rummble is a Silver Sponsor of Droidcon, the leading barcamp and conference covering all aspects of developing for Android mobile devices.

This two-day event (28th and 29th of October 2010) will take place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London and will gather more than 600 professionals passionate about Android apps and mobile.

Agenda

The fun starts on Thursday at 9AM with the Droidcon Barcamp, about Android and the Android ecosystem.

Friday is the conference day with 37 Droidcon speakers (and still growing) and four tracks within the programme: Development, Business, Design and valuable SDKs & APIs. This part starts at 9AM as well and features speakers from sponsoring list, including Rummble – Alex Housley will be presenting Rummble API.

Come and see us!

Rummble will be hosting a chill out area where you’ll be able to chat with the Rummble engineers about mobile, LBS, recommendation services and developing on the Android platform. Try out our brand new purple bean bags, drink purple drinks with the team, meet Andrew Scott (Rummble’s CEO) and we’ll also be giving away some awesome Rummble apparel throughout the day, especially to those who check in on the Rummble for Android app, so download it now (just search for Rummble in the Android marketplace, it’s free ).

London’s first ever AppCircus

Don’t forget Droidcon will also be hosting London’s first ever App Circus! AppCircus is venturing across 30 cities as a traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web. Speakers are all invited to quickly pitch their exciting application to the room and then at the end of the pitches the room decides who they think should win that leg of the App Circus tour. Winners will be nominated for the Mobile Premier Awards during Mobile World Congress.
(Source: Droidcon.co.uk)

Tickets are still available! Spread the word!

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Rummble launches Japanese Language Version For Android

Not a native English speaker? Don’t worry here come some native languages for you!

You can now use Rummble for Android in Japanese. Android language settings are specified by the native language you’re running on your device, so if your Android O/S is set to display Japanese, Rummble for Android will now appear in your native Japanese language.
Rummble for Android is the first part of the Rummble service to be translated. Rather than wait until the website is done we’d thought we’d get it out to you as soon as possible!
The translations for the Rummble web site, Rummble for iPhone and the Rummble mobile website will be launched soon and with more languages on the way.. We have already done German, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Romanian versions!

Why not help us?

If you want to see Rummble translated in to YOUR local language, please contact us and in return for some translations we’ll give you a big bag of Rummble swag!

Rummble The Movie

Here at Rummble we like love Facebook and can’t wait to watch The Social Network (despite the obvious “artistic license”) this evening at Odeon Covent Garden with a couple hundred flowery tech and social people!

Photo by norwichnuts on Flickr (CC)

To celebrate this and the upcoming launch of Rummble 2.0, free popcorn will be given to the first 20 people who check-in on Rummble and post to Facebook. Furthermore, we have six much sought after Rummble t-shirt, hot off the press, to give to the first six people who also connect their Rummble account to Facebook and check-in on Places.

Earlier this week Rummble launched Facebook Places integration, so your Facebook check-in will automagically check you into the same place on Rummble, which also gives Rummble’s hungry trust algorithm some food so it can keep popping out personalised recommendations.

Look out for Alex Housley (/ahousley or @ahousley) wearing a purple Rummble t-shirt to redeem a t-shirt. Show your check-in confirmation screen to the popcorn counter.

Enjoy the movie!