A quick recap of the evening of LondonLebowski3 – Third Time Lucky…
One week ago (24th of August) the Rummble team gathered at the Trocadero to participate in a geek bowling event organised by @cyberdees. At the very beginning we were looking for something to eat – working till 6PM, it’s so tough! After charging our batteries we were ready to spread the word and give our new stickers (much like these) to peeps. They split us to different lanes, so we could chat with various geeks. We met great people out there! Thanks for talk and play to all people who supported us bowling. Especially to organiser – Desigan Chinniah!
Claudio Weeraratne (Software Engineer), Maria Neumayer (Android Engineer), Paulina Rabizo (Intern), Callum Jones (Junior Engineer). Photo from Desigan Chinniah
Finally only one of our Rummblers contributed to win trophy for Top rolling lane. But we still had fun and we even got Team Lebowski badges! This kind of events should be every week!
Some of the Rummble team attended Moo’s 4th birthday party at 93 Feet East, an event that celebrated Moo’s success, starting as a small European startup based in London and growing into one of the web’s biggest and most innovative printers, with offices in the UK and USA. It’s fair to say Moo has rocked the dry printing world.
Callum Jones (Intern Engineer) and Andrew J Scott (CEO) from Rummble. Photo by Steve Kennedy
Callum Jones (Intern Engineer), Marta Datkiewicz (Product and Marketing Manager at WAYN), Emma Fayers (one of Rummble’s London users) and Andrew J Scott (CEO). Photo by Steve Kennedy
The event was a fantastic place to meet people in a variety of roles from London’s hottest startups; such as GoMix, Viadeo, Tweetmeme, Huddle, WAYN, BookingBug, GroupSpaces, and brand new startups on a mission to carve cool niches.
All in all it was another entertaining dive into London’s startup community, which is growing ever stronger thanks to initiatives like TechHub (http://rmb.ly/17TJJ), now offering free co-working on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to tech peeps.
Recently the Rummble team to took part in London’s biggest ever Facebook Developer Garage and Hackathon.
Andrew and Callum started from scratch and developed the concept, core functionality and pitch during the day on Sunday. Having won the evening pitch, judged by none other than Mark Zuckerberg to be a “simple solution to a problem which needs solving”; Alex joined the party at Dare Digital’s office to code through the night to prepare for live demos on Monday.
The idea, which spawned from a brainstorm with Alex’s non-technical sister, Sophie, is to allow Facebook users to ask for personalised recommendations for places from their trusted Facebook friends.
Pitched as the ”laziest way to get recommendations of places to go”, the lazy part is where Rummble’s tech ninjas got stuck in. After selecting a location, the app suggest friends that should be able to offer great place recommendations, based upon the information connected to their profile in Facebook.
We are truly excited to bring this simple gem of an idea to life to share with fellow Rummblers and Facebookers. So, we hear you ask, how does ‘Recommend a Place’ work?
It’s the third day of the Next Web conference. The weather has been gorgeous and that is good as half (that’s 3) of the Rummble team have been cycling around this historic and beautiful Dutch city distributing our new interactive stickers to all the most popular venues (and a few of the less well known ones too The Next Web kindly wrote up a piece about our adventures!
We were very happy to see the Rummble Team apartment was appropriately Apartment R !!
If you don’t know what a QR code is, it’s the funny 2D barcode square which you see people pointing their mobile phones at. It takes you to a URL. We’re printed unique QR codes for all the venues and after zapping one you can check-in or Rummble (review) the venue, but also find out who’s in the venue now, or recently.
We had fantastic food at Loup bar
In the future we’ll be adding much more functionality around the Rummble points of interest we make QR codes for – including some tools for the venue owners themselves.
The Rummble QR code stickers proved popular!
Finally, we believe check-in is just a commodity. The location of your social graph (where all your friends are) should be available to any start-up; perhaps Facebook will at some point make this happen – meanwhile, we’re happy to share location check-in information with any reputable start-up or “competitor” via our Rummble API, if you do the same (and of course respect your users privacy settings). Just contact us; and meanwhile lookout for a Rummble sicker near you!
..and after a long night enterrtaining the crowd back to some late night coding & operational planning!
We were very happy to see the Rummble Team apartment was appropriately Apartment R !!
A few years back before The Next Web became one of the European king of conferences, Rummble helped keep the fun flowing by sponsoring some beers and making the Diggnation fanboys swear allegance to “Rummble” to get their beer. This year we return alongside the clever bods at Waze and with Patricks help we’ve got 7 gorgeous DJs in tow too to keep the night buzzing.
The Next Web is always a fantastic event. With a great mix of European and U.S. influences, it is irreverant while informative and is definetely represents the best about the European start-up scene: a work hard, play hard attitude in an eclectic environment.
We were hoping to launch our new (simpler better!) website at Next Web, but sadly we’ve not been able to get it done yet…but have a beer with us meanwhile and we promise it will be ready for May!
Join Rummble at BRIX, Loup and Wolvenstraat bar until way past midnight. Make sure you join us for a taste of the Amsterdam party atmosphere, kicking off at Wolvenstraat with the Pony Peaches followed up by DJ Leroy Rey at BRIX.
Join us for some fun ... or if you're a great UI/Ux person talk to us
PS- as you can see from the hatchet job the CEO has done on this graphic, we’re still eager to find a pixel ninja to join the team… apply within!
Watch out poverty – Twestival kicks off tomorrow in hundreds of worldwide cities!
London Twestival 2010 builds upon the phenomenal success of Twestival’s inaugural year and just as 2009, Rummble will be donating 50p to charity (this year, Concern Worldwide) for every Tweeter who check-ins at the Cable Club, the London Twestival event venue.
Two really easy ways to checkin:
Got a fancy phone? Install Rummble for iPhone, Android or Windows Phone. Then find and check-in to Cable Club – the London Twestival venue. You can link your Twitter account & tweet out checkins and view your Twitter friends read more here.
OR check-in from Twitter! Simply end a Tweet such asI’m at Cable Club, London #Rummble and we’ll do the rest – you don’t even have to be an existing Rummble user!
Last year our good friend Amanda Rose tweeted up a global army of party organisers and tweeple; on a mission to have fun while raising money to help save and radically improve thousands of lives with charity: water by providing clean drinking water to people in developing nations – something most of us take for granted.
This year, your “donations” will be tallied on Friday we’ll also post links right here to everyone who checks in! Have fun, dig deep and don’t forget to tell your friends to #Rummble their checkin tweets!
To find out more about Rummble for Twitter, check out our recent blog post and coverage on VentureBeat, TechCrunch and TheNextWeb.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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:
Lots of IT guys who’ve had a bit too much to drink
A couple of girls who have nothing to do with IT
A couple of T-shirts with your company’s name on them
What to do:
Get the girls to wear your T-shirts
Make a scene by laughing way too loud
Sit back and watch as the guys are slowly drawn towards the girls like bees to honey
Take photos (free brand coverage!) and shout your company’s name out loud for everyone to remember afterwards in the cloudiness of their hangover
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.
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