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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Our Android and iPhone ninjas have been slicing and dicing and today we’re happy to share details of not just one but TWO point releases for our most popular mobile apps, including many bug fixes and UX improvements. The most notable are:
Rummble for Android
version 1.09.1
- Improvements for Sign up process
- Added “Forgot your password” in Login screen
- Added “Edit Account” during sign up
- Added “Edit Account Details” under More in Main Menu
version 1.09
- New easier and quicker sign up
- New login screen (added email authentication)
- Fixes when no location sources are enabled
Rummble for iPhone – version 1.6.2
Set location map and Rummble detail map are migrated to MapKit.- Implemented average ratings functionality.
- Updated sign-in view to emphasise login with Facebook functionality.
- Swapped Map/Neighbourhood buttons.
- Locate Me button changed to green.
- Added green Save rummble button to add rummble summary view.
- Changed text of some labels in the app.
- Fixed app crash in maps when there are less than 2 rummbles in the list.
- Integrated appIRater.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Click here for the official press release 
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.
I met Andrew Scott and the Rummble team on a bus at FOWA London 2008. After mad dash to Scotland to face-off against 3G at Hadrians Wall on the Gadget Show, we launched Total Hotspots for iPhone which combines Rummble’s mobile platform and a rich database of global WiFi hotspots.
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.
Alex Housley | alex.housley [at] rummble.com | @ahousley
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
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
- Fast and accurate location lookups with Skyhook Wireless
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 can install 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.
You can find more information on Rummble’s blog http://blog.rummble.com or follow them on Twitter @Rummble or business@rummble.com
About Windows Phone
Information about the latest updates and new Windows phones is available at: http://www.windowsphone.co.uk
Additional information about Windows phones can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/mobile/default.mspx.
Contacts:
Andrew Scott, Founder & CEO, Rummble
Email: business@rummble.com
David Weeks, Windows Phone Marketing Manager
Phone: +44 118 909 3320
Email: david.weeks@microsoft.com
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
LONDON, UK, December 2nd, 2009 – Rummble, the easiest way to find people and places nearby you lo
ve, 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.
You can find more information on Rummble’s blog http://blog.rummble.com or follow them on Twitter @Rummble or business@rummble.com
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Some say, the Rummble for VF360 widget is the worlds first location aware JIL widget (seriously, it really might be!). Some say the widget is the most useful widget ever deployed on a Samsung H1 handset… All we know is that it is in Beta, it is available now and if you’ve got one of Vodafone’s shiny new @vodafone360 handsets then you’re going to want to download it right now from here: http://bit.ly/rumbeta360
Rummble for VF360 is a JIL widget optimised for the Samsung H1 and the Vodafone widget platform and API. It uses Vodafones own Location API to locate where you are (although it can be a little slow to attach to GPS) and then give you all the rich content of Rummble at your H1 fingertips!
It is just a version 1.0 but we’ll be rolling out new features and polishing the remaining UI over the coming days… User feedback is the only real way we can improve the widget – so please speak your mind feedback
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Rummble was recently featured on Reuters for participation in ‘The Gauntlet’, hosted by The Hatchery and UKTI.
The event took place in New York City. The Hatchery is designed as a “tech and interactive process that gives entrepreneurs seven minutes to present their business models to a range of investors, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session”.
With an audience of 100+, Rummble and two other startp-ups (our friends at Huddle.net and Tailgate Techonolgies) were chosen to present from over 120 companies. Supported with flights from British Airways in conjunction with the UKTI, it was great to present Rummble in the heart of New York City and look forward to working with the people we met there.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
It has been a little over a week since the Rummble team relocated to an office building next to Farringdon station.
We’ve been enjoying our time in the new area and have been Rummbling along the way! Some of our new favourite spots include ‘Meze Meze Juice Bar‘, a new lunch spot that serves grilled paninis, bagel sandwiches, and specialies in falafel wraps.
Damir, Rummble’s iPhone developer, tagged the venue under ‘drink, juice bars, food’ and rated the venue quite highly based on his delicious lunch there last week… we’ll definitely be back soon!
Another Clerkenwell ‘hotspot’ are the shops and market stalls along Leather Lane. From a Pret a Manger, to fresh fruit/veg, to vintage clothes, or random household nick-knacks, Leather Lane has it all. One of the area’s infamous lunch stalls is Daddy Donkey, a local Mexican takeaway stand. Daddy Donkey queues can get up to 30 minutes waiting time during the lunch rush!
Although one of our staff members had a some bad side-effects from the infamous burrito one afternoon, plenty of us still think that the average waiting time speaks for itself…
We’re looking forward to plenty more adventures on Clerkenwell Road, so keep your eye out for new Rummbling around the area.
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Here at Rummble, we’re always looking for new ways to make our service faster, easier to use, and more accessible. This is why we are are VERY excited to announce Twitter and Facebook Connect integration for Rummble. Look for the new sign-in buttons on the top right of our Rummble site to get going right now!
By plugging into Facebook Connect for Rummble, all of your ‘Rummbles’ and trips will be published simultaneously into your newsfeed for your friends to see and interact with. Overall, this integration allows you to be even better connected with all your friends on the web and makes it a breeze for you to get started with Rummble if you are a first time user.
Also, true to Twitter form, we’ve discovered that Rummble and Twitter work together to do just one thing, simply and well… Through the new integration, when you create a Rummble it will also be posted as a tweet to your twitter page instantly.
In the meantime, don’t forget to become a Fan of Rummble on Facebook by clicking here. By becoming a fan, you’ll gain access to the latest news going on in our office before everyone else on the web & can be the 1st to hear about unique user opportunities, such as our soon-to-launch Rummble Brand Ambassador Team and many others!
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
In case you haven’t already heard, we’re very pleased to announce that Rummble has been selected as one of the 3 UK finalists in the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Contest. The chosen UK finalists will be not only be competing against each other but, competing against 3 Dutch mobile internet start-ups for a prize of 150,000 euro this coming September 25th at the PICNIC ‘09 in Amsterdam.
We’re very excited about the opportunity and have recently posted a brand new blog post on the Vodafone competition site revealing some ‘Recent Rummble Happenings’ here in our London office. We’ll be updating that blog weekly to gear up for the final jury session, so check it out.
We also encourage you all to head to the Mobile Clicks site and vote for Rummble as your favourite finalist in the competition by clicking here (remember: every vote counts!). The start-up with the most votes will be awarded a set amount of points that will be very beneficial during the jury’s final selection process… Voting is open until September 18th, so spread the word, & as always we appreciate all your support and feedback.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Recently, our Rummble team joined the Microsoft BizSpark network and has been taking advantage of all the great services on offer. BizSpark is an innovative service that provides software and support to online start-ups. Some of the main perks of joining include:
- Access to all Microsoft software, including Windows 7 (yet to be released on the market, we might add!) & all of their development suites.
- Professional support from community forums & unique MS training tools.
- Access to the BizSpark Network Partner Directory that’s full of entrepreneurial experts, whom are willing to give advice/mentor young start-ups through the many obstacles they may face.
After some encouragement from our friend Bindi, Rummble couldn’t resist the opportunity to join such an invaluable program. We’re really excited about the service and would suggest it to any new start-ups out there that are looking for some guidance or support and cool software perks you won’t find anywhere else! It may be love at first site…
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