About Us

Our Vision

Rummble wants to make the physical world a more personalised place to be, so you’re always in the right place at the right time.

We’re doing that by making it as easy as possible for you to find and share places nearby you like.

Rummble is a personalised recommendation service for the physical world.

As users interact with Rummble on their mobile phone or the website, to share and discover recommendations, Rummble learns about the user, personalising those recommendations. One user might see a good rating for a bar, another user a bad rating for the same bar, depending on the taste of that user. This all happens automatically.

The Long Tail of the Physical World

The “long tail of the physical world” are all the useful nuggets of info we all have in our heads but until now didnt we have anywhere convenient to put. Recommendations are more than just venues, what about the best picnic site, dog walk, kite surfing beach, or vista of a city, best place to take a photograph, to propose, to relax etc?

How does Rummble personalise content?

Rummble’s algorithm provides personalised results based upon a trust profile it builds for you from your usage of Rummble and the connections in your social network; we call it a “trust network”.

We’ve chosen to build our first service around location based content:

  • Discover content for any location (e.g. cool bars, local knowledge and the secret hangouts)
  • Publish your Rummbles and your location to Facebook, Twitter and other social software
  • Share location based content – reviews, photos, videos and blogs
  • See which places nearby are busy from Twitter activity – we call this activity Tremors and we are incorporating this into our main service, having run tests in our labs at tremors.rummble.com

How can I use Rummble?

In April 2008 the Rummble service went into limited open Beta and we released our first mobile app in December 2009. Since then we’ve been working with partners to extend the content available to the service and more recently on a new version of the app, alongside new platforms.

About the Company

Quick Facts

Founded: in 2007 by Andrew J Scott as CEO and Clive Cox as CTO.
Headquarters: 2nd Floor, 144a Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5DF
Offices: Oppino, Pier 38, San Francisco
Funding: Rummble was funded by Andrew J Scott and angel investors until Q2 2010 when Rummble closed $800,000 of funding from M8 Capital
Management: Rummbles board consists of Joe Kim (Chairman), Andrew J Scott (CEO), John Paterson, Shiraz Jiwa and Joe Neale

We are all passionate about location based mobile services and solving the problem of personal recommendations for the physical world.

Background

Prior to developing Rummble, the Founder/CEO (Andrew Scott) and CTO (Clive Cox) ran Europes first location based social network: playtxt.net .

playtxt.net was a pioneering social application, too clever for its own good and much too early to market. playtxt included location based SMS, a full web service, WAP service and latterly a demo Java J2ME application. You can read more about playtxt on Wired.

The team are always looking for feedback; email us, message us, tweet us or drop by the office.