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Simon Says: You're Wrong about Spotify

Spotify

"Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 For 1,000,000 Plays"

This headline showed the “dark side” of music streaming start up, Spotify. Critics were in awe about how little artists were being paid for their hard work. Despite the short lived pleas from Spotify that they paid more per play people focused on this number, as if it was a bad thing.

Paying an artist less than 1p per play sounds like a raw deal, until you remember Spotify is a marketing platform. Spotify is designed as a service for people to listen to their favourite tracks cheaply. Why does this benefit the artist? Because if you love their music, you’ll go to the show, get the t-shirt and support the live scene.

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techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 8 February 2012
Location: Pinsent Mason's Auditorium, UK

UKTI Mission to SXSW 2012: The Companies Announced

SXSW 2011

Congratulations to the 40 leading UK digital companies selected for this year's UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Mission to South by South West 2012.

The exciting mission will see the companies travel out to Austin, Texas for an action-packed 5 days at SXSW Interactive, one of the largest and most well known conferences focused on digital media and technology.

Each of the companies joining the mission are listed below, don't hesitate to drop them a line directly to arrange a time to meet up in Austin, or follow their progress via their Twitter accounts. You can follow the UKTI team's coverage of the mission on Twitter @uktiatsxswi.

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London New Finance - January meetup

The largest London meetup for New Finance startups and technology

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Date: 24 January 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Twittamentary Screening

media140 are excited to present a special screening of Twittamentary as part of London Social Media Week 2012 on the 17th February.

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Date: 17 February 2012
Location: The Innovation Warehouse, UK

Facebook Developer Garage London January 2012

Our first regular event of 2012. We've some great speakers lined up - so far there's Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute who'll be talking about network and networking visualisations, and a usual must-see for developers, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates.

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Date: 18 January 2012
Location: Freemasons' Hall, UK

My Digital Identity: Living your life online

My Digital Identity: At a time when data is being coalesced through the gathering of personally identifiable information such as emails, photographs, names and IP address - we are reaching a point where many digital services are amassing detailed profiles from publicly available data. What does this mean for your digital identity?

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: The HUB, Kingscross, UK

Simon Says: Supermarkets can do so much more with Social & Technology

Supermarket

Technology is designed to make our lives easier, faster and ultimately more fun.

Tesco is my supermarket of choice. This isn’t because it’s the nearest shop to me. Nor is it because I think they are the cheapest. It might have something to do with the fact I worked for almost all of the other big chain supermarkets in my teens and still have a little grudge about being treated poorly for minimum wage, but I think the main reason I’ll go to Tescos is the clubcard.

At the start of 2011 I purchased my first iPhone. When I got it home I immediately started downloading apps. Once I’d got Angry Birds, Facebook & Twitter I started to search for the more "specific" apps for me. I found the Tesco Clubcard app and moved straight over.

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The Winter Hackathon

The Winter Hackathon is a two-day festival of software coding devoted to the creation of mobile apps for the million plus visitors to the summer games in London in July/August 2012.

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Date: 28 January 2012
Location: Central Working, UK

FutureEverything Conference 2012

Manchester's FutureEverything Festival announces 2012 conference line up

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Date: 17 May 2012
Location: Museum of Science and Industry, UK

The Social Media MBA - Key B2C/B2B Trends for '12

This question and more will be answered Tuesday 24th January at the Soho Hotel in Central London. Join us for an equally unique and thought provoking MBA-style seminar led by representatives from brands recognised as global (and local) leaders within social media. What's their secret recipe to social media success?

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Date: 24 January 2012
Location: Soho Hotel, UK

Zagreb STC MeetUp

We are happy to announce Zagreb STC MeetUp #2 event that we will organize on Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5:30 PM at the Hvar conference room in Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Krapinska 45 Zagreb. For event opening, we can confirm 30 min light talk with demonstration of Grinder, a Java Load Testing Framework.

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Date: 12 January 2012
Location: Hvar conference room at Ericsson Nikola Tesla Krapinska 45, Zagreb, HR

Low-Cost Digital Engagement Conference - Fundraise, Campaign, Communicate

Low-Cost Digital Engagement Conference - Fundraise, Campaign, Communicate: Wisely Allocating Restricted Budgets To Optimise Digital Fundraising & Create Awareness & Buzz Online. A One-Day Conference & Networking Event, 17th April 2012

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Date: 17 April 2012
Location: Royal National Hotel, UK

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup – London Edition. 16th January 2012

Eric Ries, author of, ‘The Lean Startup’, will talk about what it means to apply those ideas in practice. After the talk and Q&A, there will be networking drinks & everyone will leave with a signed copy of The Lean Startup.

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Date: 16 January 2012
Location: tba, UK

Eco Tweet Up

During Social Media Week 2012 the second Eco tweet Up will take place in association with Euro Star's Tread Lightly campaign. It will bring together people who are interested in using digital communications to bring about social change around environmental issues.

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Date: 15 February 2012
Location: Euro Star HQ, UK