Rummble Featured in Global Top 20!

Rummble was recently featured in the Top 20 of Mobile Entertainment’s “50 Most Innovative Mobile Apps In the World” !

At number 20, we’re truly excited to be sharing the space with other mobile top contenders such as The Guardian’s innovative app at #10.. Tweetdeck (#9), who helps feed everyone’s Twitter addiction, and not to mention the almighty power in music streaming, Spotify (#2).

If you want to find out more about Rummble’s innovative technology, check out our 90 second animated intro or email us here.

The Rummble Word Spreads!

We’re very excited about the Rummble ‘buzz’ going around with the recent launches of Rummble for Windows Phone, Rummble for Android, and Rummble for iPhone v1.5! So, we’d thought we’d share some of the exciting Rummble coverage going on this past week…

Rummble for Android is now in the market and a big highlight was TechCrunch’s article written by Mike Butcher. “Rummble is starting to feed pure ‘check-in-like’ data’ direct from Twitter with its Tremor’s app, potentially making it quite powerful as a way to rate both places and people.” Thanks Mike, we’re excited about these new features, too!

Rummble was also recently featured in VentureBeat.  VentureBeat is popular U.S. blog whose mission is to provide news about innovation; in 2008, the New York Times called it one of the “best blogs on the Web.”  The article featured Rummble for Windows Phone functionality and discussed our ability to personalise content based on a person’s unique trust network. Read the full article here.

Rummble for Windows Phone also grabbed coverage on Mobile Entertainment News, whose total monthly audience across print, online, digital and mobile tops 73,000 people worldwide!  Find the full article here.

Finally, our very own Alex Housley was interviewed with GoMo News!  GoMo is a site dedicated to providing breaking, strategic news in the mobile industry.  Alex gives a live demo of  how easy it is to Rummble on your Windows Phone.  Watch the full length interview here.

We appreciate all the recent coverage, but would like to remind you that your feedback is the one way we can truly improve our apps to better benefit you - so don’t be shy!

Rummble Featured on Reuters

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.

Check out Rummble in VF Mobile Clicks

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.

Rummbles Disappear in the Bermuda Triangle

Thank goodness, people quite often think Rummble is funky and interesting enough to write about, so we don’t normally blog every mention in any article, newspaper or blog. However, we felt this one was worth a mention as we’re honoured to have made it all the  way out to the Bermunda Royal Gazette! Founded in 1828, it is the only daily newspaper of this beautiful island nation.

Rummble gets a mention in a recent Royal Bermuda Gazette (click to see the full article)

Strangely, the Rummbles on the Island of Bermuda all seem to have disappeared! We fear it maybe the Bermuda Triangle effect, as those on the mainland are still just fine…  Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, it is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared in mysterious circumstances.. Could this phenomenon have started to affect data on the internet stored about the area??

Pocket GPS covered Rummble at Mobile World Congress

The boys from Pocket GPS World came by to visit us at our stand this year at Mobile World Congress, which we generously allowed TeleAtlas to share with us … OK so it was there stand and we were the ones taking temporary asylum after having scooped the first prize in their Innovator Awards.

Thanks for the coverage Pocket GPS – full video is here and congratulations of course to our colleauges at Nulaz too. Checkout Pocket GPS World for all things location based, mobile and -you guess it- GPS related.

Apologies for the delay in this post, it got lost in our wordpress drafts!

Total Hotspots launches on Rummble API, going straight to 4th top utility in AppStore

Total Hotspots, one of  the leading providers of wifi hotspots data globally has launched its mobile application with Rummble.

Total Hotspots wanted to be able to provide its premium database to iphone users to help them to find pay for or free hotspots anywhere in the world. Normally, they would have had to build an entire application themselves including all the associated location based functionality. Instead, after a chat over beers in the MySpace Bus at FOWA London 2008, THS decided to utilise Rummbles LBS platform and API to rapidly roll out an App.

The wifi finding iphone app launched on Friday 30th January 2009 and was briefly featured on The Gadget Show on C5 that same evening. Since launch, in just 4 days it is now no.4 in the appstore for utilities which is fantastic news!

The Total Hotspots app is the first official use of the Rummble API which will be available for publicly very soon. Meanwhile, if you want to get started using the Rummble API please contact us.

The Total Hotspots app is a branded version of the base Rummble App, with added functionality specifically appropriate for the Total Hotspots use case. Alex Housley (Founder and CEO at Total Hotspots) paid tribute to the Rummble team, including our Design guru Ben Hull saying: “He [Ben] attacks front end visuals with the ferocity of a wild buzzard.” ..thats the sort of impassioned feedback we at Rummble treasure!

You can download the Total Hotspots app from the app store today for just £2.99.

We also had coverage of the launch courteous of the TechCrunch UK, Mike Butcher and the team.

Intruders.TV & Rummble

Want to know what Rummble is all about?

Intruders.TV do a roving report with Andrew explaining what Rummble is with the new Rummble iPhone application at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin.

El Pais and Rummble

Spain’s leading newspaper, El Pais, in Madrid, published an article on Location Based Services and Mobile Social Networks, describing the overall environment and prospects within the space. Rummble, having presented at the Mobile 2.0 Europe event in July in Barcelona was discussed in the article.

The article is in Spanish but we have a translation below;

“ I was frustrated by the lack of information for good restaurants that I knew i’d like… ”

Hence Andrew Scott conceived the idea of creating Rummble, a UK company based in London, to offer personalised content to mobile devices by recommendation algorithms.

Each member in the Rummble network invites their friends from multiple social networks. Data is retrieved from a Web or mobile browser, in the form of personalised recommendations. The trusted algorithm provided by the Rummble service, enables trusted personalised recommendations to be sent to the user, which the user then gets access to through Google maps.

“ If I travel to Madrid, the service will know I’m there and will send me, from my trusted network recommendations, details of places and events which are sure to appeal to me.”

Most veteran US companies, such as the American companies Whrrl or Doplr, are playing with similar concepts. However the automatic combination of location, trust network and context is what everyone is aiming for.

“My mobile needs to know if I’m in the sun or at a work conference, and offer me different options depending on my situation. This will be the difference between traditional web and a smarter Web – contextual and intelligent forming, ” says Carlos Domingo, Director of Telefonica R+D.

The actual article in Spanish is here.

What is Rummble?

Andrew got the chance to explain what Rummble is and what it does, to the Guardian online, earlier in March of this year.The Guardian do a tech weekly podcast with Aleks Krotoski and the one that they did last week, was about location based services.

In the podcast, Andrew gets to give his Elevator pitch, about what Rummble does, at 10 mins into the program and you can have a listen to it here to find out what Rummble is all about. You can also read about Andrew’s Elevator Pitch here.