London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 25 May 2012 Dear LSR Member, We had a great time at Pimp My App this Wednesday where seven creators of apps and websites pitched their products to an audience to get feedback from them about how they can improve their UX. All their presentations and feedback they gathered are here in our new forum. Rui Barroca, UX Designer, also presented some fantastic advice about Why UX Matters including some great tips. You can also see the video of his presentation here. Our next Drinks and Demo night is going to be held on 20 June: you can either attend and observe what people are working on right now or take the stage and share what you're doing, what you can help others with or make any announcements to 80+ people in Londons startup community for free. Book your presentation slot here and have a look at the last demo we had at our Drinks & Demo Night in May. Enjoy the sunshine! Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com

London Silicon Roundabout Group @techmeetupsLSR

EVENTS CloudBase Unconference & Workshops #tmucloud June 29, 2012, 2:00 PM Venue: City University London [ RSVP HERE ] Real Life Case Studies in Social Media Masterclass #tmusocmed Jul 12, 2012 3:00 PM

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Venue: O2 Workshop [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups SocMed Unconference #tmusocmed Jul 12, 2012, 06 PM Venue: O2 Workshop [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups Hackathon: HTML5 & Cloud #tmuhack July 20, 2012, 6:00 PM Veunue: City University London [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups London Silicon Roundabout Summer Party #tmudrinks August 09, 2012, 6:00 PM Venue: [ RSVP ] 26 27 May: JAM & HACK @ DigitalShoreditch 27-May: Google Campus - 'Hackers' Dinner! 28-May: AlterFutures Meetup 28-May: Creating Growth and Opportunities in an age of Uncertainty 28-May: Grow your business with City 28-May: Impact digital 28-May: Music + Data + Geeks = Music Data Science Day! 28-May: Acceptance testing and ATDD with Robot Framework 28-May: The Professionals: a business bootcamp 29-May: Behind the scenes of a usability and creativity lab 29-May: Content Strategy Lightning Talks

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29-May: ePubs. What's it all about? 29-May: Forum for the Future Open House 29-May: Inition 'Future of 3D' Open Studio for Digital Shoreditch Festival 29-May: London Selenium meetup event #6 29-May: mySociety May pub-meet 29-May: Open Mobile Summit 2012 29-May: Product Design + Innovation Conference 2012 29-May: PROGRESSIVE .NET TUTORIALS 2012 29-May: Reasons to be Appy 29-May: The Legacy of Alan Turing: Protecting ourselves from Internet fraud and invasion of privacy 29-May: The secrets of successful collaboration 29-May: The Social Media Revolution 29-May: Transmedia London 5 29-May: Google Campus - 'What's Next?' Dinner! 29-May: Introductory Search Engine Optimization 29-May: Cash Flow Modelling in Excel - Introductory worksh ... 29-May: Developing a web project - Bootstrapping / prototy ... 30-May: 6th Annual Counter-IEDs 30-May: Jon Jagger & Kevlin Henney's Agile Development for Developers 30-May: An evening of networking and cinema

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30-May: Appsjunction Demo & Pitch Night & Network with Developers - Digital Shoreditch Open house 30-May: Appsjunction Demo & Pitch Night & Network with Developers 30-May: Demo & Pitch Night, Networking and Digital Shoreditch Open House 30-May: brightsolid - connecting people and places through digital innovation 30-May: Mission Critical: Crafting Your Communications Strategy Workshop 30-May: Croydon Creatives (May '12) 31-May: Introduction to Programming for Non-Techies 31-May: Social Media Marketing in a Day 09-June: Self-hacking day event IN THE NEWS Silicon Roundabouts tech startups The UK Government is keen to hail the success of technology businesses centred around Londons Old Street area, known as Silicon Roundabout. Many of these businesses are web 2.0 and social media based with one or two notable exceptions. As such, they have very different experiences obtaining funding. World of the week: Wikitude Facebook With thousands content worlds available at your fingertips within Wikitude, theres something for everyone in just about every situation. Flat-Club leverages trust, social networks to facilitate short-term letting; lands funding Flat-Club, a London startup that enables people to sell and book short-term accommodations in a relatively closed circle of trust, has secured funding. Quipper Raises $3.6M For Its Fun Take On E-Learning There are lots of different approaches to the amorphous market of e-learning but only a handful ever feel much like fun. I think amongst the best of these are sites

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like MangaHigh which teaches Math, or Moshi Monsters which has subtle learning tasks for kids. We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout JOBS Java or Python developers to learn and develop in Ruby@ The Currency Cloud We are seeking Java or Python developers who are keen to learn and develop in Ruby within a commercial environment. You must be able to demonstrate an interest in Ruby technology and have the aptitude to pick up the language quickly and effectively. You will work alongside a team of Ruby developers on a cloud based, live online FX conversion and payment system which is built with J2EE architecture and linux servers. An Amazing Web & App. Developer@ Agile Ether (Anywhere)( Freelance) If you are, I need you. Theres a position for you if youre an amazing and reliable developer with a good sense of humour, to buid a new platform to revolutionise online lecturing / teaching using telepresence. Its for a niche industry and I feel its going to be very lucrative. Salary=I need someone who will work for an Equity share and become a partner in the business. Business Analyst @The Currency Cloud (Full-Time) The Currency Cloud is a disruptive start up in the international payments market, set up by seasoned industry experts. The business delivers greater transparency, more efficiency and significantly reduces the cost of making cross border payments for businesses. Technical Lead @Buddy Enterprises Ltd (Full-Time) Buddy is a web application with SMS used to input diary entries. It is a tool for NHS mental health therapists to support their patients by enabling them to keep a diary of how theyre feeling and what theyre doing. Techincal Lead @The Amazings Social Business (Full-Time)

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TheAmazings.com is a Rails 3.1 app, and needs an enthusiastic dev with experience working on social applications, especially if theyve used Activemerchant, CanCan and Devise. App Developer@ Salisbury Limited (Freelance) Looking for a developer and a designer, either one person or two, to take shares in the company. We have a number of apps that we want to develop. Have years of experience in the industry on the marketing side but not the development side and keen to build up a strong core team Based by Old Street. Computational Linguists/NLP Researchers @Knowsis (Full Time) Knowsis develops technology to collect data about stocks, indices and other tradable assets from a huge array of online sources. We then use Machine Learning techniques, Natural Language Processing and statistical analysis to measure sentiment to help predict nancial market movements. Data Scientists @Knowsis (Full Time) Knowsis develops technology to collect data about stocks, indices and other tradable assets from a huge array of online sources. We then use Machine Learning techniques, Natural Language Processing and statistical analysis to measure sentiment to help predict nancial market movements. Software Engineers @Knowsis (Full Time) Knowsis develops technology to collect data about stocks, indices and other tradable assets from a huge array of online sources. We then use Machine Learning techniques, Natural Language Processing and statistical analysis to measure sentiment to help predict nancial market movements. Lead Developer @ AdWisely (Part-Time) The Lead developer will have free reign on building on an developing the initial idea-your skillset might include, PHP, ROR, java scipt, SQL, C#-the person should be natural and adaptable to switching from different languages. If you have a job you would like to promote post it at TechStartupJobs READING & VIEWING

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TechCrunch Disrupt NY attracts 18-year-old Aussie entrepreneur StratupSmart Bootstrap Marketing for Entrepreneurs: Sticker Printing Dorm-Room-Biz Marketing Lessons Startups Need to Learn from Googles Project Glass Concept Video Tech Crunch 5 Startup lessons from Facebook IPO TechZim The Most Valuable Startup Asset: Your Meta-Tribe Forbes More Startup info at TechStartHub OUR PARTNERS EC1 Capital EC1 Capital is a 10m VC fund based in London that invests between 25k-200k in early stage digital startups with solid teams showing tangible progression. KingsleyNapley Kingsley Napley LLP is a London based and internationally recognised law firm with a specialist team advising technology companies on a range of legal issues DataArt DataArt is a custom software development firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services, healthcare, hospitality and other industries. Jeffreys Henry LLP Based in the heart of Silicon Roundabout, Jeffreys Henry specialise in working with entrepreneurial technology and digital companies to startup, develop and grow. For a limited time, Jeffreys Henry is offering free company formation and initial finance/accounting/tax advice to local technology/digital startups. Click here

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