Mike Butcher honoured at 2009 Europas.

Here at Rummble we’re very pleased to celebrate and acknowledge Mike Butcher’s achievement at the recent 2009 Europas Awards.  For those who are unaware – the event was put on by TechCrunch and was the first Europe-wide awards ceremony for technology innovation of its kind in London!  Ultimately, the awards aim to recognise Europe’s top-technology startups, web & mobile innovations of this past year.

At the ceremony, Mike Butcher (editor of TechCrunch Europe) was acknowledged for the ‘Biggest contribution to the London & European Tech Scene in Last 3 Years.’  Basti at Zensify and Andrew here at Rummble wanted to honour Mike with the award and nominated him for it some months ago.

As you can see from the snapshot above, plenty were just as proud of Mike as we are! Those pictured (from left to right) include: Basti , Andy from Huddle, Nick Bell from Quick.tv, and Peter Ward from WAYN.com.

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2nd peak is a go!

Good news everyone — Anton along with Russ Malkin’s trusted Big Earth team members have officially Rummbled their 2nd peak, Scafell Pike..

After experiencing some minor difficulties yesterday, they’ve obviously pulled themselves together and made good time in reaching their second destination.  According to recent Rummbling action, after arriving in Runcorn this morning, they are now en-route for the 3rd and FINAL peak in Wales.  

Don’t forget, in order to complete the entire 3 peaks challenge, participants must not only go over the peaks but also climb each along the way… Anton recently described his physical state during the climb up the 2nd peak as both ‘breathless and speechless’ on his Rummble status.  Luckily, the team has been provided the proper fuel for all this climbing throughout their journey, as a trusty fellow adventurer has been cooking local cuisine at every campsite along they way.   In Scotland two days ago, they all nibbled on the traditional haggis, neaps, and tatties and were woken up at an early hour to some fresh and warm porridge.  Sounds like he may be eating better than us these days?

After the challenge is all said and done, we’ll be working on plotting Anton’s entire adventure and connecting all the Rummble dots for you.  So don’t worry – the next time you and your friends decide to take up the 3 peaks challenge, we’ll have your journey perfectly plotted for you ahead of time!

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GeoMob Meeting No.2 – It’s about the data, stupid

Christopher Osbornes fantastically popular Geomob group, which only held its first meeting before Christmas, held the second event to a packed room at the lovely Wallacespace, err, space, near Covent Garden yesterday.

Speakers were Russell Middleton from Google, Alfie Dennen, Terry Jones from FluidDB (not to be confused with FluidDB.com!) and our very own Rummble Founder, Andrew J Scott.

The topic was the connection between context, location and device.

Andrew discussed the rise of LBS, the fact they are finally with us and that the future will be all about crunching data in order to make services RELEVANT and CONTEXTUAL. Personalisation for the user is key, but you cant do that without understanding the user behaviour. “It’s about the data, stupid” was Andrews mantra for the evening, which luckily for Andrew other speakers seemed to agree with!

You can view a good text overview and summary of the event on Alfies blog post about Geomob number 2, view the Rummble Geomob presentation on SlideShare here and photos from the Geomob events here.

Thanks to Christopher for all his hard work organising, to Yahoo for sponsorship (free beer, juice and munchies just make the evening SO much better!) and see you at the next event!

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Crash Course in Marketing a Start-up: Lesson 1: Rummbling OpenSoho

With Andrew on the wagon this week, Tamer waved the Rummble flag at OpenSoho#3 which was held in Floridita yesterday. It was so busy even going to the lavatories was an adventure in itself, although it’s not necessarily great to bump into chatty people along the way to the toilets when your bladder’s about to explode!

Overall the event was great, lots of professional and friendly people from all sorts of different IT backgrounds, lots of different conversations going on from deep technical discussions about the alleged superiority of Ruby on Rails over Java (yeah right!) all the way to business discussions about how best to start your own startup company.

Floridita was a perfect getaway from the grey London weather into a Latin American setting with a live band and people showing off their Salsa skills. Eventually I jumped in only to find out I should’ve trusted my gut instincts telling me I’m a bad dancer! (I blame the rum and cubanero)

Recipes from a Rummbler: Marketing stunt #1

What you’ll need:

1. Lots of IT guys who’ve had a bit too much to drink
2. A couple of girls who have nothing to do with IT
3. A couple of T-shirts with your company’s name on them

What to do:

1. Get the girls to wear your T-shirts
2. Make a scene by laughing way too loud
3. Sit back and watch as the guys are slowly drawn towards the girls like bees to honey
4. Take photos (free brand coverage!) and shout your company’s name out loud for everyone to remember afterwards in the cloudiness of their hangover
5. Make sure to have the girls say they work for your company, so guys will be more likely to check out your company’s website afterwards to try and find contact links leading back to the girls!

Obviously, if you’re a geek girl this can work in reverse, providing you find some cute guys willing to swap their clothing. Guys willing to remove clothing for girls shouldn’t be a problem, judging by OpenSoho attendees, “cute guys” might have to remain in the eye of the beholder.

Don’t forget to tune in for more of our crash course lessons in start-up marketing, in the near future: Subscribe by RSS or our Twitter feed www.twitter.com/rummble

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Rummble at Under the Radar Conference

Rummble is to pitch later today at  Under the Radar being held at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California.

Test driven and vetted Mobile startups from around the globe will be showcasing at this event today and are to be judged and critiqued by the likes of T-Mobile, Nokia, At & T Comcast, T-Mobile, Verizon and more.

Rummble is pitching in the Enable Content Providers track.

You can watch the event live here and follow the tweeting on Twitter by following @UTR08.

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Rummble goes Mobile 2.0

Rummble are at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

At the Mobile 2.0 startup event in Barcelona, Rummble came top in the Pre- Series A category for startups and was selected as one of just three companies to be invited to Mobile 2.0 2008 in San Francisco.

Expected to attend are leaders from all areas of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists.

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Silicon Stilettos

On joining Rummble I got to observe the upcoming technology start-up scene here in London. However I was alarmed by the lack of females at some of the tech start-up networking events that I attended. The female sector isn’t well represented within the London tech start-up community.

All of the entrepreneurs I was meeting were male.

It struck me that the women that are running their own technology businesses are a very rare breed indeed. I thought networking for women was bad in Ireland, so was quite disappointed to find the same case scenario here in London.

Earlier last year I completed a commercialization course at the University I attended whilst based at DERI. At the time I wanted to commercialize my research. Commercialization is not an easy process and you need a number of invaluable contacts for networking. Now, that I had moved to the UK, all of a sudden things seemed to be looking a lot harder for me to even possibly consider any commercialization, never mind network with like minded ladies.

Around my third/fourth week here I had a discussion with Zuz from the upstairs office at Huddle. Rummble are also based in the Huddle office on Bermondsey Street.

I was anxious to have some sort of event for women. With numerous women beginning to choose technology as a career there is a need for informal events for them to network properly. At Coffee @ Bermondsey Street I discussed several issues with Zuz and out of our conversation Silicon Stilettos was born.

Zuz ran with the concept and using her PR role at Huddle, quickly setup the Silicon Stilettos Meetup group. Through her efforts she managed to get over 100 women to attend on Wednesday last. The event was held at the LVPO bar in Soho and there was a free bar sponsored by Winston & Strawn lawyers and the Bootlaw creators.

I think Silicon Stilettos is a great start for women to connect and network. I connected with a number of women running their own technology business and spent a while chatting to the QueenBee Louise Campbell from eHive. I look forward to catching up with more technology women at the next event and watching Silicon Stilettos grow.

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Rummble goes to FOWA ‘08.

Rummble attended this years Future of Web Apps or FOWA ‘08 in London. Held at London’s ExCel in the heart of London’s Royal Docks. As part of a Rummble promotion campaign our Rummble Letters got to escape and run amok with the crowd attending this years Expo.

Highlights of the conference included guest speakers Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Kathy Sierra, Blaine Cook of Twitter, Kevin Rose of Digg and Tim Bray amongst several others.

Some of the highlights of the Expo can be found here on video.

After all the hard and thirsty work running around, the Rummble letters eventually managed to board the MySpace bus, where they were sponsored by Google Beers.

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Rummble @Chinwag Live Podcast: Search & Location based Services

Chinwag Live was held in The Slug and Lettuce on Wardour Street in Soho, Andrew sat on the panel at Chinwag chaired by Jo Rabin of Mobile Monday.

For those that missed the Chinwag Live: Search & Location Based Services on 7th Oct 2008, the PODCAST is now online, so if you missed it you can listen to myself and these other purveyors of all this locational, at via Feedburner, and also on iTunes. (in 3 parts) RSS & iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/57wuqh

The main discussion was about mobile’s unique ability to be the ultra portable information tool and what this means for the digital industry.

Chinwag Live is a new series of events founded to cast light on trends in the digital media and marketing industry. The basement of The Slug and Lettuce was attended by a whole host of people in the industry. Several issues and potential opportunities within the industry were openly discussed and debated.

In order, left to right on the photo:-

Felix Petersen – Co-founder, Plazes / Head of Product Management, Social Activities, Nokia
Adrian Drury – Head of Commercial Strategy & Business Development, The Cloud
Chris Moisan – Product & Market Development Manager, Taptu / blog
Andrew Scott – Co-founder, Rummble
Peggy-Anne Salz – Chief Analyst & Producer, MSearchGroove
CHAIR: Jo Rabin – Consultant & Co-Founder of MoMo London

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Rummble to speak at Chinwag

Rummble will be giving a talk at Chinwag on Tuesday October the 7th!

The event will be held downstairs at The Slug and Lettuce on Wardour Street, in Soho, London at 6pm.

You can book tickers for the event here.

Deirdre Molloy has written a blog post on the upcoming  event.

Are search and location based services going places?

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