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Nov 11th

Products you can see at TechHubFriday Demo Night this week

Thanks everyone who registered for a demo slot for tomorrow evening's TechHubFriday. Again we were overwhelmed with great companies and products, and have chosen a selection for you to see this week.

Book your ticket now (free if you're a TechHub Member), and come to meet, mingle, have a few drinks, chat and hear from...

yReceipts

Gone are the days of paper receipts. yReceipts gives you the choice of being emailed receipts from any retail store. Never lose a receipt again while reducing the paper in your wallet and our impact on the environment. We also won’t share your email address with anyone. You get the receipt and nothing more (we don’t like spam any more than you do)! yReceipts, leave paper behind.

Tastebuds.fm

Tastebuds.fm is a new music dating website that matches potential

partners based primarily on their tastes in music. It integrates

directly with popular Internet music radio site Last.fm, allowing

users to plug in their username and immediately populate their

profile. There’s also the option to manually input your favourite

bands when searching for matches. It launched in Summer 2010 and has

over 6000 members having had media coverage from the likes of The

Guardian, The Sun, Mashable.com and Mens Health USA.

Rentages

We provide solutions for landlords to let their properties, covering the whole cycle progressively. We currently offer letting insurances and we will publish more useful functionalities very soon.

Feedbackify

Listen to your customers. Be the first to know. Feedbackify your website now! Feedbackify is the easiest way to gather categorised, realtime feedback from your website visitors, so you can be the first to know about problems affecting the user experience, as well as generating valuable sales and testimonial leads.

icomplete

icomplete integrates telecoms and business applications (UC) together in-one-place to help small businesses stay in control and be more productive as a team. It's all about connecting people and devices from any location to the information that makes your business tick, saving time and money.

Zoopcast

Zoopcast is a location-based question and answer platform. If you've got a question related to where you are, or you want a recommendation of what to do or where to go, Zoopcast can help. Your question is sent to other people and businesses nearby, and they can give you an answer immediately. Don't search. Ask someone who's there.

Smartafeed

smartafeed is a development platform for aggregating information from multiple sources on the real-time web to produce a consolidated and filtered data feed for third party applications to consume, process and present. Users can create rules to aggregate and filter real-time data from web sites and social media to create a custom data feed. This data feed can then be used to develop focused applications with a simplified and reduced data volume and a single API. Data sources currently include the Twitter fire hose and RSS feed from any website. Facebook, LinkedIn and other data feed site integrations are planned as well as meta-data enhancement sites such as Klout and PeerIndex which will enable filtering based on extended user information such as social media influence and demonstrated expertise.

Plancentric
Plancentric is a new cloud software based approach for businesses that plan and manage professional resources. In the real world of constantly changing priorities, activities and unreasonable demands, rigid software can’t easily adapt, impeding productivity. Accurate tracking of resource utilisation, costs and progress is seldom available to make decisions, but can make or break the bottom line. Plancentric is a flexible tool that allows businesses to be more efficient, profitable and agile, through better control of resources, costs and task delivery. Plancentric eliminates manual spreadsheets and complex project management software to better manage the here and now, while flexibly planning for the future.

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Oct 3rd

Upcoming events and info at TechHub

By Tech Hubber

Thanks so much for coming to TechHubFriday Demo Night last Friday and thanks to the great companies that presented. Thanks also to Droidcon who gave us two tickets to give away to their very cool Android event on 28-29th and who've offered a discount code for TechHub Members. Members, please email Charlie for the code.

Below you'll find details of eight exciting events available to you, news from Pearson about the myFry app, and some changes to TechHub's hours. There's loads of great stuff coming up at TechHub, and watch out for a big event we're planning...

Event: TechHubFriday

Fri 8th October

We'll now be running TechHubFriday every week, yay! Once a month will be demo night, once a month will be film night or games, once a month will just be casual drinks, and we have great plans for the others as well. Join us for a beer and some snacks, and chat to other entrepreneurs.

So kick off the weekend early, meet some other tech folks and finish your week in style @TechHub. So you can register now if you'd like or just pop this one in your diary and keep an eye on the registration page for more details of what we'll be doing.

Event: Apps for Good
Mon 11th October

TechHub is delighted to support an evening for Apps for Good, a new programme from global social enterprise network CDI. Apps for Good is a course where young people learn to create apps that change their world. Following the successful pilot programme, and with instruction and mentoring from graduates of the first course, the new groups have been working in teams to identify and reflect on the issues that affect their lives and their communities.

On 11th Oct, join the Apps for Good community of developers, designers, community activists and thinkers to an evening where the two teams will present their initial ideas and welcome your feedback and encouragement during a Q&A and networking session afterwards. Find out more and register, or email katie.fyfe AT cdieurope.eu

Event: TechHubFriday
Fri 15th October

R egister now if you'd like or just pop this one in your diary and keep an eye on the registration page for more details of what we'll be doing.

Event: Oh My Blog Workshop
Mon 18th October
At this second workshop from Oh My Blog you'll discover some of the coolest gadgets and helpful tools out there for bloggers, and learn about SEO, blog design and usability, plus simple video and photo editing software. Great tools and ideas to help you increase your productivity and the quality of the content on your blog. Places are limited, so register now.

Event: The Art of Digital Collaboration
Tues 19th October
Come along to the event TechHub's hosting with Arts & Business on how arts, creative tech and brands are joining forces. Chaired by the very smart Jemima Kiss of the Guardian, both businesses and arts organisations will share their insights for effective collaborative partnerships and the dividends that it can pay.
More details and registration on the Arts & Business site.

Event: Facebook Developer Garage
Wed 20th October
Interested in Facebook apps? The London Facebook Developer Garage will be running their third event in their new home at TechHub on 20th October. There'll be beer, pizza and lots of other Facebook fanciers to chat to, plus some great speakers. Registration's not yet available, but you can find out more about the group and event announcements on Facebook.

Event: TechHubFriday
Fri 22nd & 29th October

Pop these ones in your diary and keep an eye on your email and twitter for more details of what we'll be doing.

What events would you like?

We'd still like to hear from you on event styles and subjects you like, those you don't, and any ideas you have or speakers you'd really love to hear from, please tell us!

Pearson & Stephen Fry's myFry app
I'm sure it can't have escaped your notice that our lovely sponsors Pearson recently launched TechHub Founder Member Stephen Fry's new book The Fry Chronicles. What you may not realise is that it instantly hit number one in five formats, including an innovative new app called "myFry" for iPhone and iPad that allows readers to delve in and out of the book by topic. Have you tried it? Tweet your feedback to Juan at Pearson via @jlopezvalcarcel and @TechHub

Change in TechHub opening hours
We're changing our opening hours starting from Monday 4th October to 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.

TechHub Membership
We still have Annual and Deskspace Memberships available for application at the moment, so visit our membership page to find out more about the options, book a tour, or sign up right now if you're ready to go. We're looking forward to welcoming you to TechHub to work alongside some of the hottest start-ups in tech.

We've had a few issues with our emails ending up in people's spam folders and emails generally not reaching people, so if you've previously applied for membership and haven't heard from us, our apologies, but please give Charlie a call on +442074900764 or email her on Charlie AT TechHub.com

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Oct 1st

TechHubFriday Demo Night tonight!

By Elizabeth Varley

TechHubFriday Demo Night is sold out tonight, and we can't wait to see what goodies these talented entrepreneurs have in store for us. Tonight, you'll be watching demos from...

wireWAX
wireWAX is a world first clickable video tool for creating intuitive, interactive hotspots. You can add information, images, links and dynamic applications to people and objects... allowing viewers to enter competitons, watch video-in-video, load live data, buy now... all without leaving the video. EMI, Virgin Records, Momentum Pictures and Hearst Digital have all been early pioneers with successful wireWAX based campaigns and proven measurable value to both audience and creator. wireWAX comes as an embeddable player, or a simple plug-in to leading video platforms, such as Brightcove.

Datasift
DataSift is a platform enabling the filtering of social streams in real-time. Built using the experience from developing TweetMeme, it allows users and developers to curate streams of content from social networks such as Twitter, then consume that filtered content for use in their own applications or through others such as Seesmic Desktop.

Fastrades
Fastrades helps you buy, sell and swap using Twitter.
The problem that we want to solve with www.fastrades.com is the frustration often experienced when buying and selling online – the frustration of multiple log-ons, of taking so long to list items for sale, the frustration of waiting for an auction to end and the frustration of being out-bid at the last minute. That led us to think that there must be a faster way to trade using the power of the trusted Twitter network – there wasn’t so we built it. It can be thought of as a new way to post small ad’s and is done in three easy steps

Brand Regard
“Who’s got the high resolution version of the logo?” – this question is being asked in almost every organisation that has a brand to convey, promote and protect. Brand related digital assets are often scattered over various computers, FTP drives or DVDs and when a company grows and prospers, it becomes difficult to make sure that the message its brand should convey stays consistent. Brand Regard solves this problem by giving the right people access to the right digital assets at the right time with an enterprise strength solution that’s as easy to use as Amazon and as cost effective as Salesforce.com.

Geomium
Description: Geomium allows users to connect with friends, meet new
people and check out all of the hottest bars, restaurants and events
in a local area, all in real time. It even shows all the money-off
deals, discounts and offers. Geomium is here to help you no matter
where you are!

ShoutEm
You need your social network to be simple and easy to use for your users?
You want it in real-time, optimized for mobile and location-based?
With ShoutEm you can create and run all kinds of networks for different purposes. And by selecting the set of features that best suits your needs, you can make sure that the look and feel suits your audience.

OVIA
Hire better talent faster by sending and receiving recorded video interviews. Invite: create a set of relevant video questions, then invite candidates to take the interview. Record: candidates record unrehearsed answers to your questions using their webcam. View: view interview responses with your team at your convenience.

Cloudmade iPhone Maps SDK
CloudMade's iPhone SDK gives developers the tools they need to create, publish and monetize location based iPhone apps that will delight and amaze users. The best bit - the SDK, services and support are all free. Developers get access to a ton of services, like the "Style Editor" - a web app that lets you create a custom map style that perfectly matches the design, branding and use case of their map based apps. The toolkit puts powerful location services like driving and walking directions and local search at the fingertips of iPhone developers. But it gets even better - a pioneering new location based advertising service will let location aware app developers earn money from premium location based ads inside their apps

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Aug 18th

Update: Free co-working til end of August, #TechHubFriday Movie Night & our 100 mbps connection!

By Elizabeth Varley

I'm completely jealous of everyone who's sunning themselves on holiday this month, and so many TechHub members are away at the moment that we've decided to extend our free co-working offer until Friday 27th August.

Want to give TechHub a try for free? Drop Charlie a line at charlie[at]techhub.com letting us know the day you're coming in and then come along. Test out our hefty brand spanking new 100 mbps fibre data line as I'm very pleased to announce it's all in and up and running! Big fat data FTW!

We also have our second #TechHubFriday Movie Night coming up this week. We'll all be practicing our best accents for everyone's favourite line: 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to Die.' in readiness to enjoy the fabulously silly Princess Bride from 5pm this Friday.

So kick off the weekend early, meet some other tech peeps and finish your Friday in style @TechHub. Register now.

Lastly, we're in the process of planning out our events programme starting in September, so if you'd like to give us your opinions on event styles and subjects you like, those you don't and any ideas you have or lists of people you'd really love to hear from, please tell us!

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