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TechCrunch Europa Awards 2010! By LaurenBarber on Tuesday November 30th, 2010   No comments

Just recently, the winners of the TechCrunch Europa Awards were announced at a ceremony in the Paramount Bar at Centre Point, London. This beautiful venue was fully equipped with a 360 degree view and the hottest startups and entrepreneurs in the area. Over 33,000 online votes were cast across 23 categories, resulting in 350 deserving winners. Our sister company, Newspepper.com was there to catch all the action! Guests included Eric Wahlforss of Soundcloud, Christian Lanng of Tradeshift, Emanuel Gal of brainient.com, and Bini Karia of Microsoft UK. Of course, our own Hermione Way was there too!

Newspepper’s Anastasia Emmanuel was on the scene scoping out some of the attendees and winners. Watch the video to see who she caught up with!

TechCrunch Europe / The Europas 2010 Final Cut from Newspepper on Vimeo.

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.Net Awards 2010 by Ubelly.com – the results are in! By LaurenBarber on Tuesday November 30th, 2010   No comments

On Thursday, 18th November, The Ministry of Sound hosted the second annual 2010 .Net Magazine Awards to celebrate the very best of the net. Ubelly.com was there to catch all the action! Dan Oliver, editor in chief of .Net Magazine was happy with the outcome of the event and was excited that they were able to “ramp up” this year’s awards a little more than last year. Some exciting new winners stood out from the rest, including Ravelry, winner of the Community Site of the Year Award, who was able to beat out both Facebook and Twitter in that category. Hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall, other attendees included Jeffery Zeldman and Greg Hoy of Happy Cog, Eliott Jay Stocks of 8Faces, Martin Beeby of Microsoft, Faruk Ateş of Modernizr, and Robert Douglass of Drupal.

Andrew Spooner of Ubelly was at the event, chatting with attendees, nominees and winners. Check out the video to see who he caught up with and who the big winners were!

.Net Awards 2010 by Ubelly.com Final Cut from Newspepper on Vimeo.

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An invitation to an event that will change the world of retail – meet the man behind it! By hermione on Tuesday November 30th, 2010   6 comments

On Wed at 9pm  GMT, Australian Internet entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan, who has already disrupted the consumer goods industry in Australia with his own brand TVs that sell online, is going to livestream an international concept of a new site that will change the way people buy consumer goods.

Make sure you bookmark this page and tune in to see Ruslan demo the new site and explain how it works. You can also follow him on Twitter.

I meet lots of interesting people, but Ruslan really is an interesting character who is on a mission to change the world, he has already paid the deposit on a $200,000 ticket to space on Virgin Galactic and tried and failed to get a job at McDonald’s to learn about its business processes, of which he is a huge fan.

If you are a blogger/journalist and would like to come down to Covent Garden tomorrow and meet him yourself, please email me and I might be able to fit you in hermioneway@newspepper.com

The stream is currently password protected , it will be open by the time the stream goes live tomorrow.

Watch live streaming video from kogan at livestream.com

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Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You’re wrong! Part 1 By LucyH on Thursday November 25th, 2010   5 comments

Each week for the next 3, TechFluffTV will be showcasing a selection of new and exciting StartUps in London. This week we speak to Ryan Sommer from Hellotxt, Flick McLean from LeapCR and Jonny Grubin from SendSocial.

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Things you need to know about our party tomorrow! By hermione on Sunday November 21st, 2010   12 comments

For those of you lucky enough to get a ticket to our relaunch party… we are really excited and you’re in for a treat!

Here’s a few things you might like to know:

Twitter Hashtag: #newspepper

Tube: Temple

Address:

Victoria Embankment, The City, London, EC4Y 0HJ
Dress: Dress to impress

Food: there will be nibbles, cake and cupcakes

Approx timings:

6:30pm doors open

7:00pm – 8:00pm networking/massages

8:00pm Doug Richard on his startup

8:30 Thanks to some special people

8:45 Announcement of winner of the business card bonanza (Flip Camera, business mentoring and some other goodies)

8:50 Beatboxer

9:00pm Jazz band from Curious Generation

10:00pm P-A-R-T-Y! Why? Because Monday is the new Friday and it’s coming up to Christmas!

All subject to change of course.

Also, we will be filming and live-streaming and our correspondent for TechFluff.tv will be doing interviews about your startups/products etc so come prepared!

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Who are Europe’s hottest startups? Tune in now to the 2010 TechCrunch Europas! By hermione on Friday November 19th, 2010   No comments

With thanks to Viadeo for sponsoring the livestream, join us live at the 2010 TechCrunch Europas!

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New Hellotxt app for your iPhone or Android! By LaurenBarber on Friday November 19th, 2010   9 comments

Hellotxt has a fun new iPhone and Android application that lets you connect even more with your friends and family! For those of you who haven’t heard the buzz, Hellotxt allows users to interact with a single “digital frame” where they can share and receive text and media to and from multiple social networks, via iPad, iPhone, Android or web. Version 2.2 lets you do some pretty cool stuff with your posts and gives you a smarter reading experience with the smartfeed view. The dashboard is similar to the older version, with geolocation, photo posting and tweeting, but the smartfeed view and the doodle feature have been upgraded. With the smartfeed view, you can click to add comments right onto Facebook, which is visible both on the Facebook website and on your own personal feed, and retweet your friends tweets right from your iPhone, iPad, or Android. With the doodle feature, you can now add stamps, clipart, freehand doodles and personal messages to pictures and post them on your friends’ walls. Once your friend gets it, they can choose to doodle something back to you – they don’t even need Hellotxt to do it!

In their words, “At Hellotxt we’re trying to inject some fun back into social networking, through simple and intuitive design and features…users save time and have more fun because updates are relevant, all in one place, and across varying networks.” Try it out and decide for yourself!

Alright, you’ve heard me talk about it. Now check out Ryan’s video to watch him demonstrate how it works!

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LimeGreen Accountancy tells us why they love Clear Books By LaurenBarber on Thursday November 11th, 2010   12 comments

Book keeping, while often rather tedious and annoying, is a crucial part to keeping any small business afloat. It’s quite helpful when a company comes along who can help us all make this job a little easier, so we wanted to feature a startup company who does just that. Clear Books is a startup that provides online software with time-saving tools for book keeping and other areas of accounting for small businesses. Clear Books allows you to log in and invite your accountant to join Clear Books so that they can log in and review your accounts, no doubt keeping your accountant’s bill to a minimum.

We sat down and talked with Kaziu Gill of LimeGreen Accountancy, a company that provides accounting services to small businesses in the creative industry. Check out the video to see why LimeGreeen loves using Clear Books for their company.

Clear Books: LimeGreen Accountancy Testimonial Final Cut from Newspepper on Vimeo.

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Europe’s First Internet Week – The Launch Party By LucyH on Wednesday November 10th, 2010   6 comments

After 3 successful years in New York, Internet Week comes to Europe for the very first time this week. TechFluffTV went to the launch party in London.

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Think It All Happens in Silicon Valley? You’re Wrong! myTVR & the last of the Melbourne Silicon Beach Series! By LaurenBarber on Tuesday November 9th, 2010   7 comments

Australia; it’s not just about sandy beaches, beers and bbqs, Melbourne (and Sydney) have thriving digital and tech communities and this month, entrepreneur and technology journalist Hermione Way and her team at Techflufftv will be exploring the startup scene interviewing the hottest startups for The Next Web Australia’s Melbourne Silicon Beach Series.

Sponsored by Kodak, Silicon Beach Australia and The Next Web, Techfluff.tv decided to delve a little deeper into Melbourne’s startup scene and video interviewed ten of these companies.

For our last interview we caught up with Michael Carew from myTVR. Michael talked to us about the importance of knowing their revenue model early as well as identifying the biggest issues the myTVR team are facing and how they’re able to tackle them as a Melbourne startup.

Well, that’s it – we’re all done! Australia is just buzzing with hot tech startups and we’ve featured our top ten as a part of this series – BinaryPlex, Eventarc, Skitch, 99Designs, Adioso, Stateless Systems, RedBubble, Kaggle, QMCODES, and myTVR. It’s proof that it doesn’t all happen in Silicon Valley!

We want to give a BIG thank you to Leila Bagundol for all her hard work with this series!

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