Friday February 26th at the Business Design Centre, Islington
Save the date: on February 26th the PHP UK Conference 2010 is happening in London and we will be there with bells on, armed with Flips, iPhones and all.
WebsiteSpark (Microsoft) and PayPal are platinum sponsors, and Facebook is the social sponsor, with Bytemark, ibuildings, data.gov.uk, GroupSpaces, O’Reilly and Packt Publishing all sponsoring too.
In 2008 one delegate brought along a heard of really cute elePHPants to give away at the event – I hope I can get one this year.
This is going to be an epic global competition to find the World’s top 100 technology startups.
I would strongly recommend European startups apply now as the competition, coming out of the US, is going to be an unmissable opportunity for startups to gain heavy media attraction, exposure and some amazing prizes.
The competition is held by the Guidewire Group, a global market intelligence and advisory firm passionate about technology entrepreneurship. They are teaming up with leading partners and sponsors to host a global competition to identify and accelerate the world’s 100 top technology, media and telecommunications startups.
The Innovate!2010 Pitch Slam calendar currently includes the following cities and dates.
March:
* Barcelona, Spain – 1 March 2010
* London, UK – 3 March 2010
* Paris, France – 4 March 2010
* Dublin, Ireland – 8 March 2010
* Milan, Italy – 10 March 2010
* Tel Aviv, Israel – 15 March 2010
* Berlin, Germany – 17 March 2010
* Prague, Czech Republic – 18 March 2010
* Amsterdam, Netherlands – 22 March 2010
* Helsinki, Finland – 24 March 2010
* Stockholm, Sweden – 25 March 2010
* Istanbul, Turkey – 29 March 2010
Innovate!2010 welcome applications from any startup that meets these simple eligibility requirements:
* Is a technology, media, or telecom startup
* Has completed a product, or an alpha version of your service
* Has incorporated
* Has at least one full-time team member
* Is open to industry feedback and validation
There is a $75 USD application fee, and every startup that applies will receive the following benefits at no additional cost:
* Two (2) registrations to one of the Innovate!2010 Pitch Slams (worth over $100 USD)
* Access to online pitch training
* Promotion to local journalists and through a network of over 5,000 news sites
What to Expect
Each Pitch Slam will showcase 10 to 15 Innovate!100 finalists that will deliver rapid-fire pitches to an audience of influencers, investors and members of the press. Along with immediate feedback from a panel of expert judges, Pitch Slam presenters will recieve a certified G/Score™ that assesses their company’s viability and promise.
Other benefits include coverage in some of the world’s most influential business and technology media, and the opportunity to profit from qualified meeting invitations with potential investors, partners and customers through the Innovate!2010 Connections Program
Following the Pitch Slam tour, the finalists with the best G/Scores™ will be named to the Innovate!100. It’s your company’s chance to be recognized as one of the world’s most promising technology startups and to win your share of nearly $250,000 USD in sponsored prizes.
Last month, Yelp celebrated its very first birthday in the UK with a party-to-end-all-parties at the Islington Metal Works. Yelp UK opened their doors to everyone who was a certified Yelper to enjoy the splendor of 50s tea ladies serving GnT within a vintage paradise, live music and plenty of good food and free-flowing cocktails.
Highlights include; the photo booth with lots of strange, wacky and wonderful props to play with, the GnT tea party complete with real grass (I thought it was fake. It wasn’t!), the amazing roast hog, rum cocktails and ZipCar who gave everyone a free lift to the after party at Slim Jim’s up the road. And of course, catching up with people and making new Yelp buddies! You can view all the photos here.
A big thankyou to Lizzie, Laura and Leon – Yelp UK’s community managers – for organising the shingdig and to some fellow yelpers who shared their favourite things and memories about the review site. Some of my favourite things about Yelp UK is the sense of community from online which translates to offline and that they have a nifty and very popular iPhone app where you can become instant Yelp friends.
Broadcasting live every Monday night from 9pm GMT (that’s 4pm New York time and 1pm LA/San Francisco time.) I will be inviting a different guest from the European tech scene each week to talk about tech, social media, entrepreneurship and news and events from the European tech scene.
The broadcast will last for around half an hour (less if we run out of things to say and more if we are having fun!)
Tonight my co-presenter and guest will be anti-Apple, freelance web developer and consultant Dave Nattriss, who is the only non-Apple fanboy that I know – and I want to know why! (plus he has a Nexus One that I wanna get my hands on:)
Here’s kind of a loose schedule around what we’re going to talk about:
General Tech/social media/Internet news
European Tech
Top startup
Tech events
Announcements
Fluff
Week’s best viral and top three websites
Tweet me if you’ve got something you want to broadcast and we will announce it!
Why have we decided to do a live show?
People keep asking me what happened to the weekly Techfluff show -well there’s such a high turnover of news in tech- by the time we filmed, edited and published it it was old news!
Announcing Viadeo.com sponsoring the video awesomeness on: Digital Mission SXSWi 2010
On the 11-17th March, 2010, nearly 40 UK companies will be going on the Digital Mission to SXSWi. Held in Austin, Texas SXSWi is one of the world’s biggest and best Internet and technology trade show and attracts investors, entrepreneurs and startups in the tech sector from from all over the world.
The mission supports UK digital companies to expand internationally, understand foreign markets, attract investment, find partners and develop business relationships in the USA.
Techfluff.tv is really excited to announce business social network Viadeo as the media sponsor for the official Digital Mission viral and video coverage at SXSWi.
Viadeo is the perfect sponsor for the viral as they know what it was like starting out; They began as a group of friends who had the entrepreneurial flair to start a business social network they names Viadeo. And now Viadeo has over 25 million members on their platform and is bigger than LinkedIn in France and China!. They are committed to helping others build their business by supporting the UK entrepreneurial community and sponsor events and startups in the tech sector. They recently sponsored Launch48 – a two day two-day event encouraging the conception, building and launch of a web app in 48 hours.
Thanks to Viadeo, we will be creating an epic pre-Mission video and filming, editing and uploading daily reports on The Mission during the trip so you can follow the companies on their trip to SXSWi and get a feel for what SXSWI is like. Twitter launched there in 2006 and SXSWi is one of the world’s best geek festivals attracting the creme de la creme of the technoratti.
So! Make sure you check in here at Techfluff.tv or the Digital Mission blog to keep up to date with The Digital Mission to SXSWi 2010.
Viadeo’s description:
Founded in June 2004, Viadeo quickly established itself as an essential tool for professional
networking in Europe and beyond. Since then, Viadeo is used by those who want to increase
their business opportunities (to discover new clients, staff and business partners), enhance their
visibility and their online reputation, and manage and develop their network of professional
contacts.
Viadeo’s over 25 million members globally, consist of business owners, entrepreneurs and
managers from a diverse range of businesses both start-up and well established. Based in
Paris (head office), Viadeo also has offices and teams in the UK (London), Spain (Madrid and
Barcelona), Italy (Milan), China (Beijing), India (New Delhi), Mexico (Mexico City) and Montreal
(Canada). The Company employs 200 staff worldwide.
Please visit us on the web at www.viadeo.com
Announcing professional social network Viadeo sponsoring the video awesomeness on: Digital Mission SXSWi 2010
On the 11-17th March, 2010, nearly 40 UK companies will be going on the Digital Mission to SXSWi. Held in Austin, Texas SXSWi is one of the world’s biggest and best Internet and technology trade show and attracts investors, entrepreneurs and startups in the tech sector from from all over the world.
The mission supports UK digital companies to expand internationally, understand foreign markets, attract investment, find partners and develop business relationships in the USA.
Techfluff.tv is really excited to announce (drum roll please)… professional social network Viadeo as the media sponsor for the official Digital Mission viral and video coverage at SXSWi.
Viadeo is the perfect sponsor for the viral as they know what it was like starting out; They began as a group of entrepreneurs who had the flair to start a professional social network they named Viadeo. And now Viadeo has over 25 million members on their platform and is bigger than LinkedIn in France and China!.
They are committed to helping others build their business by supporting the UK entrepreneurial community and sponsor events and startups in the tech sector. They recently sponsored Launch48 – a two day two-day event encouraging the conception, building and launch of a web app in 48 hours.
Thanks to Viadeo, we will be creating an epic pre-Mission video and filming, editing and uploading daily reports on The Mission during the trip so you can follow the companies on their trip to SXSWi and get a feel for what SXSWI is like. Twitter launched there in 2006 and SXSWi is one of the world’s best geek festivals attracting the creme de la creme of the technoratti.
So! Make sure you check in here at Techfluff.tv or the Digital Mission blog to keep up to date with The Digital Mission to SXSWi 2010.
More about Viadeo’s:
Founded in June 2004, Viadeo quickly established itself as an essential tool for professional networking in Europe and beyond. Since then, Viadeo is used by those who want to increase their business opportunities (to discover new clients, staff and business partners), enhance their visibility and their online reputation, and manage and develop their network of professional contacts.
Viadeo’s over 25 million members globally, consist of business owners, entrepreneurs and managers from a diverse range of businesses both start-up and well established. Based in Paris (head office), Viadeo also has offices and teams in the UK (London), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Milan), China (Beijing), India (New Delhi), Mexico (Mexico City) and Montreal (Canada). The Company employs 200 staff worldwide.
If you’re my Facebook friend you’ll of noticed some crazy photos of me looking like a punk/biker chic posted a few months ago! Well that’s because I have been working with Uniface on their video -’The Badass squares’ I am pleased to say it was probably one of the most fun days of my life shooting with the Uniface team – all the people who I starred along side in the video are developers including the awesome Dylan Schiemann, CEO of
SitePen and Co-founder of the DoJo Toolki.
Well if there’s one thing we like to do here at Techfluff.tv it’s think global!
We have correspondents all over the world – here’s a couple of neat vids from Silicon Valley and New York in the wake of the iPad launch and general tech debauchery in Social Media Week -New York style!
Lets play ‘Where’s Hermione’ Can you spot me on the cover of the book- Get Seen?
Social Media Week-NY
Silicon Valley Mobile Developers’ IPad Town Hall Meeting:
Thanks to Kodak we’ve been able to take on a some brand spanking new correspondents who will br bring you footage from tech events across the UK with their shiny new Zi8s!
! If you’ve got a tech or social media event you would like us to cover please email hermioneway@newspepper.com and we will get it on our events calender.
Katie studied French and Italian at Pembroke College, Oxford which included stints living in Grenoble and Bologna. Since graduating in 2006, she worked for three years as Executive Assistant to Peter Jones one of the UK’s most famous entrepreneurs, and star of BBC2’s Dragons’ Den where she had hands on experience working with a number of start-ups. She spent the summer of 2009 in Ethiopia, working for the Give A Future Foundation in Addis Ababa. Katie’s currently a postgrad studying at Cardiff University for a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism where she runs the blog Entrepreneurial Cardiff. She is on the media board of Young Enterprise Cymru.
Cait decided to make the big move to from New York to London in Dec. of 2008 after receiving her Bachelor’s degree. From political campaigning, media sales, marketing management, & her current role as Rummble’s ‘Marketeer’ (where you may have spotted her presenting Rummble.tv every month!) – she has had a wide-range of life-molding experiences in the tech world, with the hopes of many more to come… Cait also just finished her MA at Westminster Business School. She is currently addicted to: carbonated water, social media, progressing the role of women in the UK mobile/tech scene, and vintage shopping.
Josh Chandler is the editor of the Tomorrow’s Web Blog. He has had previous experience writing guest contributions for technology blogs including The Next Web and Vator.tv. He also produced a podcast back in 2008 called “Technology Gazette” in which he interviewed entrepreneurs and web celebrities on a regular basis. Josh left full-time education in December 2009, and is currently looking to setup his own business. He owns a successful Windows Media Player support site, which attracts 60,000 unique visitors per month.
Is a Network Media specialist from London, a graduate of the University of the Arts and Ravensbourne College.
He has been involved in New Media since 1988 in projects such as Cooltan, RGGDC, Wartime, Altern. Wartime, NodeLondon, Takaway festival and has exhibited in the UK and abroad. His Chinese name is爱江山 AI Jiang Shan, a name he was given in China on one of his many visits, he is interested in using technology as a tool in enabling communication
He currently lectures, focusing on media interaction within communities and journalism within the Interactive Network Media context. Other current projects include building robots for Gigapixel and 360×180 panoramas. He is a passionate about technology people and Kites. Check out his site atwww.superzoom.co.uk
