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MiniBar Mobile
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Estimated attendance: 252 people attended.
On May 30th, MiniBar will focus on what's cool and hot in the mobile web space. So if you run a start-up with a mobile product or service, are developing the next Skype, or building the hippest iPhone apps - let us know and present at MiniBar Mobile.
Program:
LocoMatrix - geo-location-based games - Richard Vahrman
Truphone - VOIP on mobile phones - Alexander Straub
Next2Friends - mobile social network - Roy Shelton
Flirtomatic - mobile dating - Priya Prakash
Mippin - mobile aggregator - Scott Beaumont
3G Dating Agency - mobile dating - Romi Parmar
Vodafone Betavine - development network - Margaret Gold
SUN Startup program - Stewart Townsend
Media Partners are:
TCUK
Intruders TV
Main Sponsors:
SUN Microsytems Start-Up Essential Program
Betavine: Betavine is an open community & resource website, created and managed by Vodafone Group R&D, whose mission is to support the wider development community in stimulating ideas, developing, testing and launching great new applications for mobile and Internet communications. www.betavine.net
Truphone:
Truphone is free piece of software that you install on your mobile. It uses the internet (via Wi-Fi) to route your calls meaning they're either free or really cheap. No roaming charges, no monthly fees, no lengthy contracts. Find out more
Supported by: BBC Innovation, O'Reilly
The MiniBar Mantra
MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & fandango.
Here you can find people who will help you making your next project work. The event is what we call 'useful fun'. Usually there are 200+ of London's - and beyond - finest web entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, tech journalists, bloggers, VC?s, and technology freaks.
What we offer:
- Web-Entrepreneurs can present their start-up and tech ideas
- Presentations will be archived at openbusiness.cc/minibar
- Some start ups will be featured on O'Reilly GMT, the European O'Reilly blog
And of course, Free Drinks, A Lot of Fun and many Useful People
Who you will meet?
From famous digerati and tech investors such as Esther Dyson (angel investor in Flickr and delcious), Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), to tech journalists (Guardian, BBC), bloggers (OpenBusiness etc), Open Source developers (Drupal, Ubuntu), web designers, Creative Commons enthusiasts, web entrepreneurs (last.fm, eCourier, Tioti) to many coders, media artists and other generally useful, interesting and hyper connected people.
Past presentations include: Drupal user group, Esther Dyson, Directionless.info, Magnatune, BookMoch, Tioti, Modfilms, BurnStation, Mix&Mash
More Info at: OpenBusiness.cc and barcamp.org/minibar
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James Whatley (+1 guest)“ It was good, yet a little unorganized. Great attendance mind. ” -
“ too noisy, too few opportunities to actually DO the apps you profiled, not well chaired. Venue nice. Drinks good, ” -
“ Presentations felt like sales pitches - perhaps some speakers not selling products would have been good. Great way to get people in the industry together. I met some new faces. ” -
“ It was quite noisy and could barely hear the speakers. I wasn't really interested in the startups work that showcased their work. ” -
“ Really enjoyed this one (although I'm biased, 'cause I got to get up stage to do a shout out for Betavine, and it led to many great conversations afterwards). Don't think we'll ever be able to solve that background chatter problem though. I'm stunned at how quickly the crowd got through £500 of beer. Felt like seconds flat!! ” -
“ "Free" bar was not open for very long, this should not have been phrased as such and rather something as "£200" tab or whatever it was. There was no seating, this combined with alcohol fueled the unrest which led to people chatting during the presentation. The audio volume of the microphone was too low making it difficult to hear the speakers. Finally if I had to hear that guy yell, "Keep quiet" one more time I was ready to pop a head-gaskett, this was a professional meet-up not high school. ” -
Josie Fraser (+1 guest)“ Fairly interesting mix of mobile startups & apps, great networking and catching up. ” -
“ The venue was noisy and the PA system was inaudible. Most of the presentations were unclear and difficult to see from mid-way in the audience. On top of this, the beer ran out too early! Although some of the presentations were interesting, they were insufficient in detail - perhaps 3 minutes is not long enough to give a good overview? Lastly, there wasn't enough time given to questions, which made it impossible to get clarity on issues that weren't answered in the presentation. ” -
“ Seemed like an interesting crowd Very interesting companies came forward - but very poor presentations ” -
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“ Good as usual but we seemed to whizz through the presentations very quickly without getting into much depth. Also it's about time we discussed the practicalities of launching a startup not just a quick demo of the 1st version and a few questions. What platform did they use? what funding? how much? how many people for how long to build? where hosted? how did they make it scalable? 12 month plans? etc...those of us involved in startups can't learn much from seeing a demo of a site that probably isn't related to what we're doing and the usual answers concerning monetisation (adverts), there are many more ways to monetise a site. ”
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