Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Rummble was recently featured on Reuters for participation in ‘The Gauntlet’, hosted by The Hatchery and UKTI.
The event took place in New York City. The Hatchery is designed as a “tech and interactive process that gives entrepreneurs seven minutes to present their business models to a range of investors, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session”.
With an audience of 100+, Rummble and two other startp-ups (our friends at Huddle.net and Tailgate Techonolgies) were chosen to present from over 120 companies. Supported with flights from British Airways in conjunction with the UKTI, it was great to present Rummble in the heart of New York City and look forward to working with the people we met there.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
It has been a little over a week since the Rummble team relocated to an office building next to Farringdon station.
We’ve been enjoying our time in the new area and have been Rummbling along the way! Some of our new favourite spots include ‘Meze Meze Juice Bar‘, a new lunch spot that serves grilled paninis, bagel sandwiches, and specialies in falafel wraps.
Damir, Rummble’s iPhone developer, tagged the venue under ‘drink, juice bars, food’ and rated the venue quite highly based on his delicious lunch there last week… we’ll definitely be back soon!
Another Clerkenwell ‘hotspot’ are the shops and market stalls along Leather Lane. From a Pret a Manger, to fresh fruit/veg, to vintage clothes, or random household nick-knacks, Leather Lane has it all. One of the area’s infamous lunch stalls is Daddy Donkey, a local Mexican takeaway stand. Daddy Donkey queues can get up to 30 minutes waiting time during the lunch rush!
Although one of our staff members had a some bad side-effects from the infamous burrito one afternoon, plenty of us still think that the average waiting time speaks for itself…
We’re looking forward to plenty more adventures on Clerkenwell Road, so keep your eye out for new Rummbling around the area.
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
..and a present for Rummble users with Android phones!
Just one year ago, the Android operating system was launched by Google with the hopes of expanding the smartphone market. Currently 10% of UK smartphones are now powered by Android (AdMob), with future predictions of an ‘Android explosion’ – where Android will make up 50% of mobile phones & ’overtake’ the iPhone phenomion by 2010.
Today we’re releasing some sneek peeks of Rummble for Android and our beta users will receive an early beta of the app! Our small team has been hard at work building/bug-fixing and we plan to release the final beta of Rummble for Android early next month.
Curently, Android Market, the online store for Android apps has 1000’s of apps available for free download to users and a recent AdMob survey showed that Android users download 9.1 apps/month on average vs. iPhone downloads of 10.2/month… not bad for a one-year anniversary, eh?
If you want to get the next beta release of Rummble for Android before it hits the marketplace and have a say on how it looks, feels and works, then signup to our beta list today: http://bit.ly/rumbeta.
If you’re a London Android developer you should also join the Londroid developer group run by our friends Kevin & Carl at Novoda.
We’re excited about future of Android and hope to celebrate many more years with the Rummble for Android app!
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
It seems like only yesterday that Rummble moved in with London’s music gurus, Songkick. We had a fantastic few months working just off fashionable Hoxton Square and enjoyed Rummbling the multitude of cafes and bars in the area. Our sausage-scented second office will also be missed, but now we have a new patch of London to explore…
Last Friday Rummble took up a fantastic offer to work in another open office off Clerkenwell Road, thanks to serial entrepreneur and current executive chairman at Mendeley, Stefan Glänzer. A big thank you to Stefan and Eileen for making us feel so welcome.
There is so much happening right now, both at Rummble and in the wider social location-based mobile sector. We’re close to launching fresh new apps for iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile; and also going through the process of simplifying our website to ensure that the Rummble community is better equipped to find the people and places we love.
It’s going to be an exciting last few months of 2009 and we want you on board for the ride. As a friend of Rummble, please register for shiny new app betas and send us your feedback.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Thanks to Rummble’s current involvement as alumni at Microsoft Mobile Incubation Week in Washington DC, Alex Housley got the opportunity to join Brian Hoskins, Director of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team, on ABC News. The interview featured on ‘Ahead of the Curve’, a program that features the latest technology innovations in the American marketplace.
David and Alex spoke about the upcoming launch of (recently rebranded) Windows Phone and how Mobile Incubation Week helped speed up the development of Rummble for Windows Phone. Windows Marketplace for Mobile is set to debut tomorrow and will soon feature Rummble among the launch apps for over 30 shiny new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices to be released before the end of the year; plus the millions of existing Windows Mobile 6.1 devices.
It’s our mission for Rummble to become the #1 social local discovery service in the US (and the rest of the World), so this was the perfect opportunity for Americans to get to know what Rummble is all about! Rummble is hugely appreciative for the support of Microsoft through initiatives such as Microsoft BizSpark and Mobile Incubation Week, and cannot wait to launch.
You can watch the video here.
Email Alex to register your interest in beta testing Rummble for Windows Phone.
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