About Rummble
Rummble is a location based social search and discovery tool, enabling users find recommended content for a location more easily, without a traditional keyword search. Instead, Rummble’s algorithm provides personalised results based upon a trust profile it builds for you and the content in your social 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)
- Give friends automatic warning when you will be in their area
- Share location based content - reviews, photos, videos and blogs
- Explore with Rummble on your mobile or on the web
- Meet new people nearby
- Publish your Rummbles and your location to Facebook and other social software
It works anywhere - you can use it at home or on the move via your mobile.
Rummble works globally and has been in closed Beta since September 2007. In April 2008 the Rummble service went into limited open Beta.
Rummble - the company
Rummble is built by a small team based in Cambridge, England. Individually the team also spend time in the South of France, Alexandria Egypt, San Francisco USA and Spain.
We are all passionate about social media and particularly location based mobile services and Web 3.0 - the semantic or “social” web.
Background
Prior to developing Rummble, the CEO (Andrew Scott) and CTO (Clive Cox) earlier ran Europes first location based social network: playtxt.net
playtxt.net was a pioneering social application, operated as a technology demonstrator which formed some of the engine behind Rummble. 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.
