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Mini Seedcamp New York - 14th June

Seedcamp

On June 14, Seedcamp will be hosting the first ever State-side Mini Seedcamp in New York.

Mini Seedcamp New York is a one day event aiming to connect the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, and experts from the US and all over the world.

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Seedcamp New York

On June 14, Seedcamp will be hosting the first ever State side Mini Seedcamp in New York. We're looking to take the 20 most awesome startups with us to meet with and be mentored by some of the greatest mentors from the East Coast and Europe.

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Date: 14 June 2011
Location: New York City, US

Help Save the Books

Book Shelves

I am not sure if it is because I am a ‘geek’ or just because I am lazy, but I love gadgets that make
my life easier, faster, and BETTER – gadgets, which 6 months ago, I didn’t even know I needed! But
there’s one I just cannot get on board with ...electronic reading devices.
I will never buy one!
I have lived in 3 countries in as many years and have very few possessions that I haul around with
me; honestly nothing of value. The one thing I do take with me everywhere is my books (even when
I am limited to only 20kg of luggage). Backpacking around Europe with the complete works of Jane
Austen and Crime and Punishment would not have been the same if I merely had a Kindle.
I just do not see how they can replace the joy of buying and owning a book. But we have all seen
what happened to the record store and CDs with MP3s and music downloads. This did not bother
me, and I do think storing thousands of songs on one small device offers value to the user. I also
thought the changing marketplace was a good thing for the music industry and consumers of music.
Making music more accessible to a wider market, and yes you can say the same for books. But I just
don’t see the benefits of devices like the Kindle; books have been around for centuries. It was the
first form of commercial and readily available media; it has been used for escapism since the bible.
Books are already accessible to large target markets.
I am sure what happened in the music industry foreshadows the fate of the book.
But the next generation will miss out on so much if they don’t experience the joy of books. Already
modern parents are entertaining their children with their iPad. In contrast my mum gave me her
nearly complete collection of The Baby-Sitters Club.
I love the relationship I have with books, and I will not aid and abet the growth of digital books in any
way, shape or form, when to me they fail to capture or enhance the experience of a paperback

I am not sure if it is because I am a ‘geek’ or just because I am lazy, but I love gadgets that make my life easier, faster, and BETTER – gadgets, which 6 months ago, I didn’t even know I needed!  But there’s one I just cannot get on board with ...electronic reading devices.

I will never buy one!

I have lived in 3 countries in as many years and have very few possessions that I haul around with me; honestly nothing of value.

The one thing I do take with me everywhere is my books (even when I am limited to only 20kg of luggage). Backpacking around Europe with the complete works of Jane Austen and Crime and Punishment would not have been the same if I merely had a Kindle.

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Good for Nothing

We're on the hunt for 80 awesome folks from across a wide range of disciplines - designers, developers, communicators, and more - basically anyone who's up for some turbo-charged 'doing'. Do some good for nothing.

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Date: 20 May 2011
Location: Splendid Communications, UK

Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Jam in London

you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online? Join Mozilla & Knight Foundation, and The Guardian, on May 28 for an all-day brainstorm and design jam about the future of journalism online.

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Date: 28 May 2011
Location: The Guardian, UK

MC ThinkCamp - mHealth

MC ThinkCamp - mHealth is on June 3rd at the Wallacespace St Pancras, London It is FREE to attend, and will bring the healthcare & mobile technology communities together to take a collaborative approach to putting ideas for mobile healthcare innovation into action.

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Date: 3 June 2011
Location: WallaceSpace St Pancras London, UK

Brian Sletten's Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp

Brian Sletten's 5-day Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp provides a broad, example-driven and compelling vision of computing's future. Organisations are struggling with data integration solutions that operate at the wrong level of abstraction or are shackled to legacy systems with no idea of how to modernize incrementally.

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Date: 23 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

MongoDB at Guardian.co.uk

June's talk will be courtesy of Matthew Wall and Graham Tackley from Guardian.co.uk. More details coming soon.

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Date: 1 June 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Digital Surrey: The Science of Gamification

On 26th May at 7pm, Michael Wu PhD of Lithium Technologies will be joining Digital Surrey at the UCA in Farnham to discuss the science of gamification.

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Date: 26 May 2011
Location: University for the Creative Arts, UK

SMW London Round-up: Sport and Social Media, hosted by the BBC, the UK Sports Network and Ogilvy

Sport & Social Media

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it’s taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, reportage and tweets from Sport and Social Media, hosted by:

  • Sophie Brendel, BBC’s Head of Digital Engagement (@sophiebr)
  • Maz Nadjm, Ogilvy’s Head of Social Media (@mazi)
  • and Dan McLaren, Adidas Social Media Lead at Carat (@danielmclaren)

The event looked at how the sports industry and the BBC are bringing social media centre stage, and featured major speakers from across the world of sport and broadcasting.

Four industry showcases were presented (Football, The Ashes, Rugby and BBC & London 2012), showcasing how sports organisations are using social media:

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Michael Vizdos Certified ScrumMaster Training Workshop

This is a Certified ScrumMaster Training Workshop with Michael Vizdos, one of the premier Certified Scrum Trainers in the world today.

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Date: 13 June 2011
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Neo4J User Group: Everything is Connected

Neil Ellis will be giving a talk on the value of using the Neo4J graph database to build a collaborative infrastructure. He will explore how the choice of storage mechanism affects application design and ultimately what functionality systems provide for their users.

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Date: 31 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

London .NET User Group:Long Term Value of Acceptance Tests

This month we will have two talks for the price of one, with a short talk from a community member, then Gojko Adzic will talk about the long term benefits of acceptance tests and what you need to do to get them.

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Date: 31 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Greg Young's CQRS, Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to apply DDD

Greg Young's 3 day CQRS, Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to apply DDD course will teach you all about system building and architectures with Domain Driven Design.

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Date: 13 June 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA

Udi Dahan's five day course Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA will help you take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and EBay.

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Date: 13 June 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK