Archive for May, 2011

LifeSort the revolutionary cloud computing and file sharing software launches in the UK! By Chloe on Tuesday May 24th, 2011   8 comments

This week the revolutionary cloud computing and file sharing software LifeSort launched in the UK! LifeSort allows you to easily share, store and save your files straight from your computer desktop to the cloud – which means you can access your files from anywhere whether it be your home computer, browser or on your iPhone.

The unique feature about LifeSort is that all your files and folders are duplicated to the cloud – so unlike other file sharing sites – it has the ability to help you organise, find and share your files meaning that you can save your files remotely in the same file structure you have on your computer.

Watch the video above to find out what others had to say about LifeSort at their London Launch Party.

You can started using LifeSort for free here!

 

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Paul Carr on ‘living the dream’ & his new book The Upgrade! By Chloe on Wednesday May 18th, 2011   No comments

This week I caught up with Paul Carr at the launch of his new book The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations. Under the guise of ‘travel’, the book is really about his life in the tech & entrepreneurial world and includes stories about how he ended up getting fired from The Guardian, The Telegraph and almost TechCrunch a few times plus his thoughts and insights of currently having no fixed address – at the moment Paul lives in a hotel room in New York.

At the book launch Paul read an excerpt from Chapter 900 (cunningly following hotel room numbers) and I managed to grab a quick word with him after he had finished signing autographed copies for his adoring fans! There is also talk that The Upgrade will be turned into a movie, but if you can’t wait for that, you can order a copy and read Chapter 100 (the first section) here.

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Measurement & Analytics – Key words when it comes to Social Media & Gaming! By AnastasiaEmmanuel on Monday May 16th, 2011   1 comment

Last month was the fastest selling Facebook Developers Garage London to date – 220 tickets in just 8 DAYS! As always, our sister company Newspepper were delighted to provide media services. If you haven’t snapped up your tickets to this month’s Garage yet, then you better get a wriggle on! You can still grab tickets here!

April’s Garage centered around the buzz word- Gamification. The world of social gaming is only getting bigger, and last month at Facebook Developers Garage London, guests got a useful insight into how businesses can monetise gaming. There were presentations on how to scale games, and move them onto the Facebook API, as well as tackling the problems and issues that arise with gaming. There were high quality speakers from companies such as Playfish, Miniclip and Enteraction, and people came away with a better idea on how to suceeed in the world of gaming – it is here to stay so you may as well do it right! For more info and to see what people thought of the event, have a watch of the Event Report from the night.

If the idea of analytics is appealing to you, then head down to Freemasons Hall this Wednesday to hear some great insights from top quality speakers. Topics range from; tools for measuring success,  to the ‘seven deadly social gaming metrics’! Confirmed speakers are David Kramaley from Sharkius Games, Heather Stark from Kinran, Aaron Huang from Kontagent, Pierre Santamaria from Weka Entertainment, and Simon Cross who is a Platform Partner Engineer for Facebook. There will also be the usual updates on the Facebook platform and everything you need to know about what’s HOT on Facebook right now!

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City University nurtures entrepreneurial spirit in the Western Balkans By LucyH on Friday May 6th, 2011   No comments

With the likes of Stamford and MIT in America, a criticism often lumped on the UK’s entrepreneurial scene is that young people don’t get the support they need at university to set up shop on their own. Things are catching up over here though.

As part of the new EM2-STEM project, City University are building business relationships between London and the Western Balkans. It’s a mobility programme to nurture entrepreneurial and management skills.

Professor Grattan and Professor Khan of the university’s school of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and school of Informatics are heading the project and say that eastern Europe has massive untapped potential in physics and mathematics, but many students lack the skills and support to turn an idea into a business.

Successful applicants for the exchange programme will receive up to 1,800 euros in expenses per month.

City university offers a range of services and support for students with a bright ideas. There’s a catalyst fund scheme where students can pitch ideas for funding, an industry advisory group and staff and alumni entrepreneurs and business experts on-hand for support and advice.

I met Professor Grattan and Professor Khan to hear about why they see so much business potential in the Western Balkans:

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Consider yourself the geek with the most chic and fancy an Ipad2?… By AnastasiaEmmanuel on Tuesday May 3rd, 2011   No comments

…Then you need to make your way down to Bar Music Hall in the heart of uber geek-chic Shoreditch! Tomorrow night will see over 100 interweb stormtroopers battle it out to be the winning team of Geek Off hosted by Latitude and Albion. It will be like any other pub quiz but with a digital twist and much better prizes. Thanks to sponsorship from Interxion, EACH member of the winning team will get their hands on the sexy Ipad 2! The runners up prizes aren’t shabby either…and of course the beer will be flowing!

If you can’t get a team of 4 together at short notice, don’t sweat it…head down for some beer and banter, and you may be able to forge the winning team with some fellow digital-genius stragglers! Either way it’s going to be great way to celebrate Digital Shoreditch and us Techfluff ladies will be there with bells on…and a flipcam of course!

Even if you can’t make it you can get involved with The Geek Off Tweet Off, so wherever you are, you can join in by answering the questions from the quiz on twitter, and the winner gets a brand new 8GB iPod Nano! All the questions will be tweeted on the feed @latitude_group. Be the first person to reply with the correct answer and you get a point…be the person with the most points at the end and you will have bagged yourself a nice little Ipod!

For more info, head to http://www.latitudegroup.com/geekoff/. Tickets are running out fast, but you can grab some here - http://geekoff.eventbrite.com/

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Uniface vs the world -Kill Bill Style! By Chloe on Tuesday May 3rd, 2011   No comments

And for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look see The Making of Uniface Badass Squares 3 below:

 

The Uniface Badass Squares are back and this time they mean business! See our own Hermione Way star in this Kill Bill-style trailer to promote iCU2011 which is happening on Tuesday May 10 2011. It’s free to attend!

iCU2011 is the second, virtual, Uniface development conference. It offers a unique chance for enterprise application developers globally to come together to learn and share best practices for quickly developing great software for Cloud deployment.

To learn more about whom the Uniface Badass Squares are and our upcoming iCU2011 virtual event visit: http://www.badasssquares.com andhttp://www.icu2011.com.

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