The Take Heart India Ball of 2011 brought together people from all over the UK that share a common goal, and that is to improve the opportunities of students in India.
Take Heart India is a youth run charity that centers its attention on empowering young people via education rather than providing monetary donations.
Since 2004, an IT and language school has been providing thousands of job opportunities to students in India. Take Heart fund raising events are vital to the continuation of the charity and each year the leaders, Lucian and Sebastian Tarnowski, gather some of the UK’s most talented young people to put together these events such as the Take Heart India Ball 2011.
Take Heart has absolutely no employees and because of this, 100 % of the proceeds from charity events support their ongoing projects.
This recent event is an excellent example of how social entrepreneurs have come together and raised funds for IT programs that lead to an endless amount of possibilities for the students in India.
Tech meet-ups are becoming increasingly popular across the London area but Londata, will be having a launch event on November 23 to discuss the practical application and commercial exploitation of data in particular. The meet up will be an informal and community led discussion on data from the commerical point of view. You are invited to come together and exchange ideas and hear from the Director of Digital Projects for the GLA, Emer Coleman, on the challenges of setting London’s data free!
We’re so excited to be launching our four year old company in USA. We have been running out of the UK and Europe for the past four years and decided it’s time to expand stateside!
Now, it’s company tradition to film a spoof music video, and this year since we’re launching over here, we thought this American classic was pretty fitting!
Tonight, (11/10/11), we are having a party at Room 86 on Hollywood Boulevard, not only to launch our company in LA, but to celebrate the convergence between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Our new venture ‘Hollywood meets Silicon Valley’ is hoping to tangibly bring together the two worlds which are already merging. With celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga falling over themselves to invest in start-ups, clearly there is in an interest from Hollywood. Not only this, but Hollywood is now looking to Silicon Valley for it’s content – with movies such as The Social Network taking over $200,000,000 at the Box Office, and the Steve Jobs movie, and Wikileaks The Movie set to hit the Silver Screen soon.
We’d like to thank our sponsors for helping us realise the ‘American Dream’ Knock Twice, CoLoft, What’s Trending, Mobile Roadie, Mekanism, The Next Web, and for all of you who have supported Team Newspepper since its inception.
We’re here to take over the US and soon enough world domination! Muahahaha!
Enjoy the video, as much as we did making it!
CREDITS:
Videographer/Editor Sean M Flynn
Styling and Make Up Samantha Nicholls & Anne Nicholls
Creativity needs diversity so why is our Media Industry primarily populated with people from advantaged Socio economic backgrounds?
This topic has been extremely controversial in the Media lately and the upcoming debate this Wednesday at Channel 4Q will prove just this. A group of high profile industry experts will express their personal views on the subject and will go head to head against one another in front of a keen audience. If you are interested in this topic as well then why don’t you have your say in the matter and come join the ‘Generation C in the Media Industry’ debate on Wednesday 19th of October at the Ch4 Headquarters. Check out this website for more details http://4talent.channel4.com/extra/generation-c-uk-media-industry and continue watching this site for our very own video coverage from the event.
Our very own, Sophie Mackaill, attended the launch party for Uni-verse.biz and here is what she found out for us. Uni-verse.biz is a brand new website that is designed specifically to help students plan out their night of fun, find accommodations, and reap the greatest benefits available to them. The site came to be because the CEO and co founder, Jon Nice, realized that their weren’t enough outlets and resources accessible to students for finding good deals and saving money while they attend university. The key aspect of the site is that it is exclusively designed for students in the Brighton area. Matt Hagger, the co founder and investor for Uni-verse.biz said that the city of Brighton is being used as a starting point to test out the website so who knows what the future will hold. Overall the site adds a social media edge to finding events and group discounts and will allow people to post pictures and comments about the locations they have found out about through the website.
Since its launch, Uni-verse.biz, has had hundreds of people sign up and they are already taking advantage of the benefits that it offers from finding out about potential jobs to learning about countless deals ranging from food, hotels, clubs, fashion, and everything in between. Check out the video above and see for yourself what people had to say about the exciting and innovative social media site that they had been waiting for.
Last week I went along to the Eurogamer Expo 2011 to check out all the new releases in the world of video games. Joining me on my trip into the land of the virtual was video game enthusiast and founder of GaBoom.co.uk, Jess Ratcliffe.
The Eurogamer Expo is held over 4 days every year and showcases the exciting new games and virtual masterpieces the video game industry has to offer. Armed with our free t-shirts, posters and toy tank (!), we made our way round the Expo, sampling each new game. The most popular games appeared to be Battlefield 3, Assassins Creed Revelations and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, with huge queues forming to play each of these games.
To get the expert opinion on the Eurogamer Expo 2011 I asked Jess a few questions;
1. What were you most looking forward to at the Eurogamer Expo this year?
This year I was most looking forward to Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, which is to be released this November. I’m a big fan of the Assassin’s Creed series and loved Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, which was at the Expo last year. I was also looking forward to seeing Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 under one roof.
2. What was your favourite game on the day?
My favourite game on the day was Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. I love the story behind the game and the section of the game I got to play was awesome.
3. Which game do you think will be the biggest seller this Christmas?
It’s hard to say! There’s so many great games out this year, which all have a dedicated following, such as FIFA 12 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. I think Battlefield 3 will be the big player this Christmas. The trailers for Battlefield are amazing and EA have worked their socks off to raise awareness of the game.
5. Who wins the war between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in your opinion?
In my opinion, the winner is Battlefield 3. The game looks awesome and for me, it’s a step above Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. As I mentioned above, the marketing around Battlefield has been so powerful. EA has been really clever with their trailers and teasers for the game.
Publish once and sell everywhere is the idea behind the upcoming ‘Guerilla Shopkeeping‘ event. On October 19, 2011 PayPal and Moonfruit ShopBuilder will hold an event that will teach you how to take advantage of the ever growing global online market. PayPal and Moonfruit’s new ShopBuilder will teach you how to design and publish your shop online and begin trading as soon as possible. Selling online is beneficial because it allows you to utilize the low cost global channels of the web, mobile and social media. If you are interested in learning more about the opportunities that this market holds then join Newspepper.com and others at the event!
“There is no hotter topic than the future of the mobile internet,” stated Ashley Ward, the director of the European Leaders. People
around the world are always asking, what’s next for the Mobile Internet? We can thank the European Leaders and Taylor Wessing for
presenting the Hot Topics: What’s next for the Mobile Internet debate on the 15th of September!
The hot topics that led the debate were: Smartphones and tablets go mass market, the social networking surge and its impact on SMS, mobile transactions—ready for prime time, and the rise of local search and augmented reality. These major issues are known by the experts as the key forces that will change the way people use mobile phones in the next 12 months.
This event was centered on bringing together mobile industry influences, experts, and thought leaders to discuss the changes that
are coming and to hear diverse viewpoints concerning this mobile industry. We were able to hear from some of these great minds from the
European Leaders ranging from Alberto Torres from Opera Software, Jim Buckle from LoveFilm, Magnus Nilsson founder of Izettle, to Daniel
Gelder from Metaio, Fred Becker from Skype, and numerous others.
Overall the European Leaders Performance through People’s presentation of Hot Topics: What’s next for the Mobile Internet was able to relay a vast amount of information from those in the know on all things mobile. The attendees were not only able to acknowledge past successes
from the mobile industry they now know what they can look forward to in the future!
The long awaited JailBreakCon formerly known as MyGreatFest took place this past Saturday, September 17, in the Old Truman Brewery in London. The world had been anticipating a face to face gathering of the iCommunity for some time and now that wait is over.
At JailBreakCon I met up with the leading thinkers and followers of this community to find out what they are looking forward to in the future of the Jailbreaking and iCommunity world and what makes them interested in this industry. It was great to see such a wide range of attendees from those merely attracted to technology to the actual developers and in between. From coders to hackers their were people from all sorts of diverse technological backgrounds and they were brought together by the event.
There were a number of presentations and discussions ranging from @Aaronash, @p0sixninja and @iOPK members of the Chronic-Dev team, to Carsten Heinelt aka @iFile4iPhone, James Whelton aka @Jwhelton, and Jay Freeman aka @Saurik the founder of Cydia.
To see more from the event go to http://mygreatfest.net/ and check it out! Although JailBreakCon formerly known as MyGreatFest was the worlds first ever iCommunity and Jailbreaking convention I am sure it will not be the last.
‘What does your label say about you?’ This is the tagline for the labelling campaign launched by UK electronics and manufacturing company, Brother. This campaign has been launched in support of the Brother UK labelling business. The team took a trip down the length of Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles and collected footage of the people they met along the way and asked how they would label themselves. The footage was shot over 30 days and was shown at the campaign launch event. The campaign takes a really interesting and exciting viewpoint of labelling and teaming up with Route 66 adds a cool and exciting theme.
The launch event embraced all things American with a Blues Band, roller skating waitresses and American themed decorations added to the atmosphere of the video marketing. The Brother Route 66 Campaign is such a clever and new way of reaching their target audience and showcasing the different labelling range they offer. Check out the above video of the Brother Route 66 Launch Event!
