Welcome to the second installment Rummble’s 60 Seconds With.. each month we’ll be interviewing different top Rummblers from the Rummble community for a quick minute & posting them on the blog.
This month we are featuring Emma, who has 279 Rummbles!
How are you finding your experience with Rummble on it?
Well, I’m still somewhat new to the Android platform, so I’m learning to Rummble on it as quickly as possible. Lately, I’ve been Rummbling from the website a lot more, but love being able to check-in on my mobile phone now and am looking forward to new versions of the Rummble for Android in the market soon
What’s your favourite Rummble to date?
Broadway market. Since I live in Hackney, it is only a short walk away on a Saturday morning. I love going there to get a coffee and browsing the market stalls, although I usually end up buying a load of books that I don’t need!
What do you find Rummble most useful for?
At the moment I’m mainly using it to bookmark and store places I’ve already been to. For me, it’s like a library of cool places.. so if I’m headed out to dinner with a friend and can’t remember the name or location of a place I went to once, I just hop on Rummble. I’ve recently been going through my past trips to Tokyo and Rummbling venues from there, too.
Would you tell you friends about Rummble?
I do all the time – I always end up telling random people s as I’m out on a Saturday night about the service. I’m always telling those who are hesitant that its not just another social network and that it’s really useful.
How much time do you spend on Rummble every week?
I go through random bursts. Whenever I’m not busy I try to jump on and always end up Rummbling different places in batches after a weekend out. My recent goal is to hit 300 Rummbles before the New Year!
A big thanks to Emma for taking the time to chat with us. If you’d like to be featured on one of our upcoming interviews contact Cait or Tweet us @Rummble.
Rummble is celebrating the holidays with a Rummble.tv Christmas special this year!
Check out our 4th episode as Cait explores some of London’s most celebrated Christmas venues. A stop for some window shopping was a must at Selfridges this year, along with surveying the local Christmas Market. Also, check out the humorous footage from Rummble’s holiday ice skating adventure!
A huge thanks for all of the feedback, tips and tweets. Please keep it coming – leave your comments below, tweet @Rummble or email Cait if you want to be featured in January’s episode.
Keeping up with our regular Rummble for Android bug fix releases, the Android team are pleased to announce that version 1.05 is now available in the Android Market. This release improves performance, fixes bugs and improves functionality:
Ratings can quickly be created from the Rummble details view by clicking on the existing rating icon. Previously the option was only available by pressing the menu key.
Fixed performance issues in the Rummble details screen
Interface improvements to the people list
Fixed logout
Expect to see further major updates early in 2010. Are you using Rummble for Android and want to help us improve? Please send us your feature wishlist and bug reports – we are proud that the Rummble community are playing an important part in creating the #1 social LBS app for Android
To download, simply zap the above QR code or visit Android Market from your handset.
We think that the holidays are about spending time with the people who mean the most to you… so, a Rummble holiday get-together was a must this year!
People are now Rummbling in 193 countries, many of which have very different traditions to us here in Europe. Our team is multinational too, with English, American, Russian, Italian and an Indian. For our holiday celebration, the team recently went ice skating at Somerset House.
Was it a good laugh?
We’ll let you decide!
We’d like to thank all of you in the Rummble community for continuing to support us, provide feedback, and keeping the Rummble dream alive. The Rummble team wishes you a Happy Holiday season, wherever you are and whatever you may celebrate this year.
Don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for footage from this ice skating adventure on Rummble.tv’s Christmas Special, premiering this Wednesday, Dec. 23rd.
Rummble for Android was released a little over two weeks ago and we have been delighted with the response – including high praise and constructive feedback on how we can improve. Thanks to the Rummble community – new and old – for making yourself heard and being an important part of the development process.
Since launch we’ve made five small bug fix releases, and as of today are rolling with Rummble for Android v1.04.1 – we urge all Android users to upgrade for an optimal Rummble experience!
If you downloaded the APK directly from a tweet or previous blog post, then we also recommend that you upgrade via Android Market.
To download, simply zap the above QR code or visit Android Market from your handset.
So, what’s changed? Based on your feedback, we have fixed several bugs and issues:
Improved user-interface performance and usability, with bug fixes on the UI – as mentioned by Top Rummbler Emma last week
Fixed ‘Force Closes’
Improved sorting in the Rummble’s ‘People and Friends’ view
Added miles support throughout the UI – as requested by user Brian using the Android Market!
Fixed map marker function in the ‘Add a new Rummble’ option
Rummble are today announcing the acquisition of Total Hotspots, the global WiFi community. This deal brings a global WiFi database to all Rummble users, along with an active community and partnerships.
WiFi provides a better mobile data experience and usage has increased by around 50% in 2009, with over a billion public connections. This is the most advanced app of its type, not only telling you where the nearest paid and free hotspots are around the world, but also providing personalised recommendations for those venues. To celebrate the acquisition, Total Hotspots for iPhone has been reduced from £2.99 to just £0.59 over Christmas (iTunes link).
I have joined Rummble’s founding team as VP Business, to help drive service development and key partnerships. Total Hotspots was created in 2004, while studying Business and Computing at City University, London, helping more than a million people find WiFi on the way.
Celebrate (and win) with The Rummble 12 Days of Christmas
Wherever you are in the world and whatever you are celebrating during this silly season, starting from Sunday December 13th (unlucky for some of us westerners, but not if you’re a Rummbler) we’ll be holding a 12 Days of Rummblmas competition to see who can create the most Rummbles in the shortest time possible!
Inspired by the speed at which some Rummblers have been becoming Local Heroes, the rules are simple:
1) Rummble as many unique places as you can in the next 12 days
2) Thou must be a registered Rummbler
3) Thou must have fun whilst Rummbling
That’s it!
The winners (one for each continent) will receive a snazzy Rummble t-shirt (see below) and if you can make it to London, we’ll treat you to lunch with the Rummble team too (flight costs to get to London are sadly, not included )
We’ll be posting interim results on our blog here throughout the 12 days, so keep checking back to find out where you stand on our Rummble 12 Days of Rummblmas leader-board.
We’re very excited about the Rummble ‘buzz’ going around with the recent launches of Rummble for Windows Phone, Rummble for Android, and Rummble for iPhone v1.5! So, we’d thought we’d share some of the exciting Rummble coverage going on this past week…
Rummble for Android is now in the market and a big highlight was TechCrunch’s article written by Mike Butcher. “Rummble is starting to feed pure ‘check-in-like’ data’ direct from Twitterwith its Tremor’s app, potentially making it quite powerful as a way to rate both places and people.” Thanks Mike, we’re excited about these new features, too!
Rummble was also recently featured in VentureBeat. VentureBeat is popular U.S. blog whose mission is to provide news about innovation; in 2008, the New York Times called it one of the “best blogs on the Web.” The article featured Rummble for Windows Phone functionality and discussed our ability to personalise content based on a person’s unique trust network. Read the full article here.
Rummble for Windows Phone also grabbed coverage on Mobile Entertainment News, whose total monthly audience across print, online, digital and mobile tops 73,000 people worldwide! Find the full article here.
Finally, our very own Alex Housley was interviewed with GoMo News! GoMo is a site dedicated to providing breaking, strategic news in the mobile industry. Alex gives a live demo of how easy it is to Rummble on your Windows Phone. Watch the full length interview here.
We appreciate all the recent coverage, but would like to remind you that your feedback is the one way we can truly improve our apps to better benefit you - so don’t be shy!
Lets Anyone Find People and Places Nearby on Windows Mobile 6.1+
LONDON, UK, December 7, 2009 - Rummble, the easiest way to find people and places nearby you love, today announced the public availability of Rummble for Windows® Phone at Heroes of the Mobile Screen event in London (http://www.mobileheroes.net/). With this launch, Rummble is set to open new doors for Windows Phone, making its unique personalised real-time recommendations platform available for the first time on Windows® Marketplace for Mobile. using a touch-optimised interface compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 & 6.1
“We are excited to be working closely with Rummble, and by having their latest and most up-to-date release on our Marketplace, our Windows Phone customers will have access to one of the best and most powerful location based services available today” said David Weeks, the Marketing Manager for Windows Phone.
Rummble empowers people to become an influencer among their own social circle. Anyone using Rummble can, rate, share, & review any location, and with Rummble’s patent pending technology, the service delivers personalised results to users learning their tastes as they go.
Most services re-publish directories containing the same bars, restaurants and hotels where as Rummble is designed to help you create and share the “long tail” of local content in the physical world; be that a museum, a favourite park bench, meeting place, salon, dog walk, public art or hiking spot.
Features in version one of Rummble for Windows Phone include:
Discover personalised recommendations nearby, quickly and easily
Check-in to any venue and notify your group of friends instantly
Show the buzz from specific venues in real-time from the twittersphere
Find out where your friends are and what they are doing
Connect Rummble to Twitter, Facebook, Bebo and Linked-In
Rummble for Windows Phone fits neatly into anyone’s business and personal life, whether you’re looking for a meeting spot with colleagues at a conference or hoping for serendipitous meeting with friends while out on the tiles.
“Windows Mobile has always been one of the most capable mobile platforms available, but there is no question new entrants have increased competition in the market” said Andrew J Scott, Rummble Founder “Windows Phone 6.5 is an important upgrade and with over 30 new handsets launching in 2010 that is many millions of people who we want to be Rummbling around the world!”
To download Rummble for Windows Phone search ‘Rummble’ in the Windows Marketplace installed on your handset. Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 users caninstall Marketplace here.
About Rummble
Rummble makes it as easy to find people and places nearby you’ll love. As a location based social search and discovery tool, Rummbles enables users to find personalised recommendations for a location very quickly. Instead of a traditional search, Rummble uses an algorithm that creates a personal ‘trust network’ for each user by calculating who they trust for different types of content. Rummble is built by a small but passionate team based in London, England. The award winning start-up was Founded by serial entrepreneur Andrew J Scott and CTO Clive Cox.
LONDON, UK, December 2nd, 2009 – Rummble, the easiest way to find people and places nearby you love, today announced version 1.0 of Rummble for Android, the Google backed smartphone O/S. The launch brings Rummbles unique personalised real-time recommendations platform to users who don’t own an iPhone, for the first time.
Most services re-publish directories containing the same bars, restaurants and hotels where as Rummble is designed to help you create and share the “long tail” of local content in the physical world. That could be a museum, a favourite park bench, salon, dog walk, public art or hiking spot. Rummble empowers people to become an influencer among their own social circle. Anyone using Rummble can, rate, share & review any location and with Rummbles patent pending technology, the service delivers personalised results to users, learning their tastes as they go.
Rummble for Android offers lots of ways for users to interact and mold their social life more easily, rather than jumping through hoops to do so. Features in this first beta version of Rummble for Android include:
Finding recommendations nearby, personalised to you, quickly and easily
Check-in to any venue in the world and notify your group of friends in real-time
See how buzzing a venue is and view the Tweets coming from that actual place
Connect Rummble to Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and Linked In
“Android phones are going to be a serious force in the market, as one of the most advanced mobile operating systems it was an obvious next step for Rummble” said Andrew J. Scott, CEO & Founder of Rummble “..it’s very much a version 1 and still has a few bugs, but we think Android owners are going to love it”.
Rummble gives you personalised results for physical points of interest nearby, within seconds
Download the app here
(This is a QR code. In order to download Rummble for Android to your Android handset, find the ‘Barcode Scanner’ application, then simply tap to scan this QR code within the red guideline boxes, the phone will then take you to the Rummble for Android download!)
About Rummble
Rummble makes it as easy to find people and places nearby you’ll love. As a location based social search and discovery tool, Rummbles enables users to find personalised recommendations for a location very quickly. Instead of a traditional search, Rummble uses an algorithm that creates a personal ‘trust network’ for each user by calculating who they trust for different types of content. Rummble is built by a small but passionate team based in London, England. The award winning start-up was started by Founder and serial entrepreneur Andrew J Scott and CTO Clive Cox.
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