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After leaving MySpace Nordik in 2009, Hans Eriksson was so excited by live-streaming service Bambuser that he decided to get involved and he’s now CEO.
They’ve got contracts with major news outlets in Sweden, Finland and Norway and have thousands of users who live stream for free. There’s no limit on the amount or length and there’s a handy mobile app and option of embedding on your facebook wall.
To makesure none of the content broadcast is explicit or inappropriate, someone is checking through the streams 24/7.
During the recent unrest in the Middle East they noticed thousands more users in Egypt and Bahrain streaming pictures of the protests.
TechFluff spoke to Hans about the vetting process, what kind of things users have been streaming and he showed us how the mobile app works.
So that’s accommodation, food and travel only to be donated by his digital connections. At the time this post was published, Lloyd had raised $1520 donated by 28 of his online community.
The idea behind the trip is to prove the importance and strength of online relationships and how they can translate into real-life commodities and cash. In short social media ROI.
He’ll be flying out on 1st March to San Francisco and hopes to end up somewhere on the East coast (possibly Boston) via SXSW.
All he’s taking with him will be a social media tool-kit; smartphone, netbook, flip camera and an SLR and he’ll be blogging his way through the journey here.
If you’d like to help him in any way – offer him a sofa, send him some cash or drive him around, you can do here.
TechFluff is gona keep up with his progress with regular skype calls, so watch this space!
A few days before the big trip, we asked why Lloyd is undertaking such a mean feat, the plans (or lack of!) he’s already put in place and what will happen if he runs into trouble.
The second installment of the ’5 Minutes With…’ features an interview Alexandra Ransom, founder of Beagle Thinking during Social Media Week 2011, with the series shot and produced by Newspepper.
Alexandra shares with us her thoughts on how social media can be successfully used by the public sector. Information is also revealed about the adoptions necessary for the organisations to effectively use social media. Finally, Alexandra speaks about the biggest challenges for public sectors’ use of social media.
It’s gotta be one of the most important tasks for a new business but balancing the books is not top of an entrepreneurs list of fun things to do.
Here at TechFluff we like to give our readers something to smile about and so we’ve teamed up with online accounting siteClearBooks to do just that.
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This year’s Social Media Week London was tremendously successful! Everyone who attended, including our very own TechfluffTV video bloggers learned a ton about the growth and future of social media across various industries – and not just tech! Viadeo hosted a variety of events throughout the week, each of which were covered by our sister video production company, Newspepper.
As part of this coverage, we have a special video series called ’5 Minutes With…’ with in-depth interviews with some of social media’s star players including: Tim Lloyd from Department of Health, Alexandra Ranson founder of Beagle Thinking, Michael Nutley of New Media Age, Rebecca Folb from Nokia, Pete Crosby of Viadeo, Matt Alder of MetaShift and Lucian Tarnowski from Brave New Talent.
First up is, Simon Collister who is the Public Sector and Non-Profit Director of We Are Social. This video focuses on social media and the public sector. Check out the video for some quality advice and insight into to future of this interesting relationship.
If you’re interested in viewing the entire presentation, check back shortly!
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Last month, our TechfluffTV video blogger Sonal covered the highly-anticipated TheNextWomen Investment Pitch Evening. You can read her report and watch her video interviews below!
On Thursday 27th January I attended TheNextWomen Investment Pitch Evening. The start-ups who pitched ranged from a branding company to inter galactic space games, storing your lifetime memories online, to a luxury resort hotel in Italy and even delivering eastern-influenced cooking classes online!
All the eight companies spent a day at Orrick’s swanky head office, getting trained and mentored for pitching. That evening they had a chance to exhibit their newly acquired and spruced up skills in front of a panel of judges who ranged from London’s venture capitalist and finance companies including DN capital, Orrick, Octopus ventures, Incito Ventures and Piton Capitol.
After the pitching process, the winner was announced…drum roll please..Indiluup of Elizabetta Calilleri – an information hub for parents. Based on the idea that eventually all communication is going to be digitised and uploaded online, this info hub will create a highly resourceful database for parents to track activities of their kids in the future.
Simone Brummelhuis , founder and the CEO of the Next Women was very optimistic about most of the projects eventually connecting to the right investor.
Overal it was a fantastic event, and I thought Polly Gower’s advice, founder of After Click, really defined the key points when running a business. “ Surround yourself with people who challenge you, so they can bring important and key skills for making success of your project.”
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Family 2.0 delved into the issues now faced by families with the explosion of new internet technologies and social media.
The panel, put together by Mashup Events, covered porn, parental control and news ways of communicating within the family unit.
We spoke to Katy O’Donovan from MumsNet about how they advice their users to tackle internet safety, Vodafone’s Global Head of Content Standards Annie Mullins about responsiblity and Ellen Helsper, a political scientist from LSE who said people are becoming much more strategic with what they post online.
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Last week, our resident Video Blogger, Talia, joined giffgaff for their special roundtable event focused on Building Future Communities during Social Media Week. You can read her report below!
During Social Media Week giffgaff hosted a special event called Building Future Communities. I had the opportunity to observe and participate in a round table discussion. While there was a panel of professionals, attendees were more than encouraged to ask questions and put their two cents in. This event provided a platform, brimming with knowledgeable individuals, to speak of the past, present, and future of online and offline communities.
Issues that were raised included the filtration of information and how news is sourced by individuals within a community. Is a good thing that we get all the news we need from one source, or will we be shielded by the truth because of self-selection? Convenience and immediacy are highly valued in today’s society, but it is important not to relinquish truth in the process…
If you want to hear more from the participants watch this video report below:
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Wendy Tan White founded Moonfruit in 2000, during the first dot com bubble. They help you to build good looking websites simply. The basic package is free with premium tools and features at a price.
At TechPitch 4.5, Wendy was on the panel judging 10 startup pitches. We spoke to other judges here.
She told us why she thinks this dot com boom is different from last decades and how ‘VC bubbles’ mean more money goes back into the tech ecosystem.
She also told us the top tips that made Moonfruit go big:
Optimise use of money
Make the most of social media and mobile marketing for distribution and PR
Prove your business model and metrics before you pitch for funding
Are you a successful startup? We’d love to hear your top tips to succeed in the comments below
