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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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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the infamous South by South West Interactive Festival (SXSWi)!
Some members of the Rummble team, including Andrew, will be headed to Austin from the 11th of March until the 17th to take part in this year’s festivities. Rummble will be headed with 35 other UK startups, via Digital Mission, a group organised by Chinwag and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), that enables digital companies to expand into overseas markets and attract investment outside the UK.
Key speakers at this year’s event include Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams and the founder of music sharing goodness Spotify, David Ek… We’re excited to show Texans what Rummbling is all about and will be sure to update you on ways you can get involved when the event gets closer!
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Want some early Valentine’s Day love? Rummble and Total Hotspots are here for you!
Total Hotspots powered by Rummble for iPhone is now available for FREE in the app store (it previously cost £2.99 / $4.99).
In case you didn’t know, Total Hotspots integrates Rummble’s trust profiles with over 200,000 WiFi hotspots, allowing you to quickly add, rate, review, tag and photograph your favourite hotspots around the globe, to better share them with others.
For the love of staying connected, download Total Hotspots for iPhone here.
This sweet offer ends the day after Valentine’s Day, February 15th, so hurry up and get it now!
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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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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Celebrate (and win) with The Rummble 12 Days of Christmas
Wherever you are in the world and whatever you are celebrating during this silly season, starting from Sunday December 13th (unlucky for some of us westerners, but not if you’re a Rummbler) we’ll be holding a 12 Days of Rummblmas competition to see who can create the most Rummbles in the shortest time possible!
Inspired by the speed at which some Rummblers have been becoming Local Heroes, the rules are simple:
1) Rummble as many unique places as you can in the next 12 days
2) Thou must be a registered Rummbler
3) Thou must have fun whilst Rummbling
That’s it!
The winners (one for each continent) will receive a snazzy Rummble t-shirt (see below) and if you can make it to London, we’ll treat you to lunch with the Rummble team too (flight costs to get to London are sadly, not included 
)
We’ll be posting interim results on our blog here throughout the 12 days, so keep checking back to find out where you stand on our Rummble 12 Days of Rummblmas leader-board.
Competition will end on December 25th, and the winner will be announced on December 26th. Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@Rummble) and become a fan of us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/rummble) to get the latest updates during the competition.
Happy Rummbling!
- Cait and The Rummble Team
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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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Monday, November 30th, 2009
As Rummble has been growing on the service side (translation: all the gritty technology which does the heavy lifting) our mobile applications have been rather left behind as we hire some new mobile engineers. We’ve also had feedback from our Rummble for iPhone v1.0 users. So today to answer your prayers we’ve released an interim Rummble for iPhone v1.5 (rather than make you all wait until 2010 for version 2.0!) It’s bristling with lots of new functionality and social sharing features! Spanking new features in v1.5 include:
- Log in using Facebook Connect for iPhone
- Just slide across a Rummble in the list, for a quick one-touch button to Check-in to any venue/Rummble
- Get instant notifications of where anyone is, based on the real-time public Twitter stream
- Shows what all your friends are up to as it’s happening nearby
- Activity stream for your Rummble friends
- Sort by “smart sort” (a combination of nearby and how recently)
- Sory by “Distance only” or “Check-in only”
- Message another Rummble user
- View a Rummblers profile, recent activity
- Access your Rummble inbox and edit your profile’s basic details
Download Rummble for iPhone v1.5 here all free, as usual of course!
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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, September 18th, 2009
Today is the last day to vote for Rummble in the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition!
With over 100 initial entires into the competition, we are very excited about the opportunity to give one last Rummble pitch, as part of the final 6 mobile start-ups next week in front of the judging panel at PICNIC ‘09 in Amersterdam.
Remember — Just a quick click, could better Rummble’s chances of winning one of the cash prizes (worth 150,000 euros in total), all so that we can help make Rummble even easier, faster, and more reliable for you to find cool places around the globe… Thanks again! We truly appreciate all your support!
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
As many of you are already aware, Rummble will be headed to PICNIC in Amsterdam next week to compete in the finals of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Competition.
We’d like to issue a Rummble ‘call to action’ and ask you to vote for us NOW on the VF Mobile Clicks page! Voting closes this coming Friday, Sep. 18th… We encourage you to spread the link onto your friends and family, and appreciate all of the support.
Andrew and Alex have some cool Rummble updates to reveal at the finals next week and we can’t wait to tell you about them all very soon, too! In the meantime, remember – every vote counts, so show the love and vote for us! Thanks!
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