Good Vibrations

Rummble is Hiring!

• iphone app UI designer/developer
• N95 series App UI designer
• Web UI designer / usability god

Part Time and Project Work available, potentially Full Time

Passionate about location based services, Web 2.0, 3.0 and mobile services? Want to work with a bunch of people who are equally obssesive about mobile and LBS? Are you capable, at the top of your game? Do you aspire to have your work seen by millions?!

We have one of the most comprehensive and advanced location based social discovery platforms on the planet - but we have listened to our Beta users and we know we’re not punching our weight in one cruicial area: User Interface Design. Perhaps that is because actually, none of us are great designers! Infact, our CEO is currently doing the design work along with the multiple hats of being a CEO. We’ve decided this madness has to stop - Maybe you are the one?

We have Immediate work for the following: (can be same person if you really swing both ways
We want some who is at the top of their game on each device; the more specialist you are the better.

1. UI designer/developer for iphone optimised app for existing platform (new app)
2. UI visual designer for J2ME app optimised for N95 series of phones (existing app getting new UI)
3. Web application graphic designer and usability god

Agencies need not apply at this stage; we’d prefer to work with a freelancer or individual.

Please provide some examples of your work, location, availability and what mobile stuff you’re passionate about!

Please contact our CEO, Andrew Scott http://www.rummble.com/andrew

Tweaks: Rummble Blogs now have consistent Location set

We’ve amended the Travel Blogs location set to be consistent with the regular location setting.

When you add a Blog entry, just click the Change blog location button.  If you don’t set the blog location, it will default to be your current location.

And you can also change the location once set, simply click the location name again.

Techcrunch covers Rummble as part of WebMission

The infamous and omnipresent Techcrunch has covered Rummble as part of the WebMission08 trip to San Francisco. The trip was a resounding success, with some great companies on show. It was great not only to meet all the relevant valley people but also spend a week with fellow founders chewing the fat about building businesses and creating relationships.

There is a real buzz beginning to stir in the UK startup community and events/trips like this can only serve to help that process. I’m going to write a post on my personal blog sometime soon about the UK’s startup tech scene - but meanwhile check out Mike Butchers post and the great companies that I spent a week in the valley with.

cheers

Andrew, Founder/CEO Rummble.

BBC News covers Rummble and WebMission

The BBCs new West Coast technology correspondent, interviewed Rummble Founder Andrew Scott at the Web 2.0 Expo event in San Francisco. You can read the article here.

Rummble wins MEX 08 Scholarship award

Rummble is one of only 3 companies to win an exhibition package worth thousands of pounds, to attend MEX (the Mobile Experience conference in London, 27th-28th May 2008). The competition was run to grant innovative startups the chance to attend The MEX agenda is based around it’s 10 point Manifesto for enhancing the mobile experience.

PMN who run MEX, say “We bring together 100 of the leading thinkers in mobile telecoms and challenge them to define the cutting edge of user experience through 2 days of learning, debate and networking.” Rummble will be there in the middle of the action, thanks to the scholarship award program.

Rummble shortlisted to provide 2012 Olympics social network

Rummble has been selected to present it’s Mobile Social application (as part of a consortium proposal) to the top tier sponsors of the Olympic games London 2012 on May 15th. The consortium comprising of TTP, Deadline Communications, Global Reach and Rummble are proposing the ‘Games Buddy’; a connected, portable media device that can assist attendees of the Games from the moment they arrive. The proposal is only one of six proposals to be selected from the Eastern Region.

This selection gives Rummble an incredible opportunity to have it’s Mobile Social Network application integral to the London 2012 Olympics.

Rummble is Top 5 in Sphred.com

Sphred, the startups ranking site, this week reports Rummble as one of its top 5 startups. SPhred is a place where users, specially new start-ups, can showcase their websites and other sphred users can either support that idea by adding a ‘spread’ or by adding a ‘shred’ if they don’t like the idea. The more SP|hred a site has the more visibility it gets.

Thank you to those Sphreders’ who gave us the thumbs up! We’re doing our best to improve and act on feedback. More news coming soon…!

Rummble supports Fire Eagle

We have added a basic integration of Fire Eagle to Rummble. If you have a Fire Eagle account (its in beta at present) you can allow Rummble to set your Fire Eagle location when you set your location on the Rummble web service. You can also update your location manually from Fire Eagle.

When we get time we will provide a more seamless bi-directional integration with Fire Eagle over the coming months, ready for Fire Eagle’s public release.

Beer, a blogger in the trunk and a German Web 2.0 broadcast… (WebMission08)

They say no PR is bad PR; well lets test the theory. Something a bit special in all the wrong ways.

After a fantastic BBQ at Jim Bruckmaster’s place (CEO Craiglist) we went to Brian Solise’s house for another BBQ, reuniting some of the SXSW crowd and other local Valley luminaries.

En route back, with John Havens from BlogTalkRadio in the boot (seen here on the right, actually IN the trunk) we officially Premiered the first ever Bootblog (or TrunkBlog if you’re of an American persuasion…!) a short snippet in video below; we’ll publish the real audio blog as soon as we get the URL from John…

Andy from Huddle, Sox from TrustedPlaces and Alicia from Skimbit all embarrass ourselves and lastly myself (proving once and for my brain anyway, two languages in one head is impossible - I need a memory upgrade)

…apologies in advance to those true German speakers who are less ignorant than me!
I claim mitigating circumstances after drinking a bottle of this…

The first 2 days of the Web Mission 08

It’s been a fantastic first couple of days here in the Valley; I wont rewrite what many others have already explained, but instead link to some photos and posts below:

• WebMission08 photos on Flickr
• WebMission08 photos of Flickr (just tagged WebMission without the 08!)
• TechCrunch Coverage Day 1 of WebMission
• TechCrunch Coverage Day 2 of WebMission

More to come soon!

Some of the Web Mission crusaders chew the fat at Jim Buckmasters BBQ;
Charlie, Andy (Huddle), Erica, Sox (Trustedplaces) and me (Rummble)