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Music 4.5 Open Data

Open Data: devaluing or driving music business models? An increasing number of businesses are built on other businesses’ open data. Re-using data-sets to create new business opportunities is sensible business strategy, but what about making money ‘for free’ from other businesses available data?

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Date: 5 March 2013
Location: Lewis Silkin offices, UK

TechPitch 4.5

TechPitch 4.5 brings together tech startups, investors and entrepreneurs for an evening of business idea pitching by startups and productive feedback from experts. Eight tech startups will present their business ideas and revenue models during a three-minute pitch followed by a five minute Q&A by a panel of judges.

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: Pinsent Mason's auditorium, UK

Tech Business MiniMBA #8: Effective Software Development Management

The Tech Business Mini MBA #8: Effective Software Development Management presented by Peter Brownell, co-founder of start-up schoolofeverything.com, the UK branch of the Drupal Open Source Developer community (drupal.org), and Director of one of the UK's most established Drupal consultancies (codepositive.com).

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Date: 17 January 2013
Location: The Young Foundation, UK

Digital Mission to New York 2013: What's Happening, More Companies and Deadline Approaches

Back in December we announced the first set of companies that will be joining us for the Digital Mission to New York in February this year. 

We are very excited to not only let you know the next lucky group of companies coming along on the trip, but also to let you take a sneaky peak at the mission agenda. 

With an investor roundtable, masterclass in doing business in the USA, a traditional British pub quiz as well as all the keynotes, showcases and presentations that are being held as part of Social Media Week NYC the mission companies are not going to be short on events to go to and people to meet. You can take a look at the full agenda for the week here.

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7 January 2013 by Francesca Heath

Social Media Measurement & Monitoring

The UK's No. 1 measurement & monitoring event - featuring a keynote and training session from Katie Delahaye Paine. A two day training workshop and conference will covering topics such as choosing the right metrics, creating a measurement framework, sentiment analysis, influencer marketing, monitoring tools, team working, big data.

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Date: 26 March 2013
Location: Cavendish Conference Centre, UK

Judge Cred: Will Google Authorship Help Writers?

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‘Content is king’ as the old maxim goes and whilst there’s still an infinite amount of truth in that statement, the intriguing sub-plot that developed over the past decade or so could perhaps be framed as ‘visibility is a close second’.

Many a beautifully scripted site bearing gifts of great content has got lost in the vast, cacophonous sea of information that is the internet.

From early paid link schemes, through unnatural links to the frowned-upon ‘carpet-bombing’ practises of Link Farms, there’s been an ongoing search for new and improved ways to optimise website rankings.

The algorithms used in search engines have long been the subject of much keen analysis (and equally keen tinkering with a view to manipulating) but the latest phase in online behemoth, Google’s development intends to restore some much-needed transparency and trust to the SEO process with Google+ Authorship Markup.

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27 December 2012 by Nichola Stott

Seedcamp London

Apply to Seedcamp London for an intense day of mentoring and the first chance of 2013 to join the Seedcamp Family.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: Google Campus, London, UK

2012: The Year Video took a Giant Leap

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2012 has been an exceptional year for web video, with Psy's taking the world by storm and Felix Baumgartner's huge leap from space.

With record-breaking numbers of viewers watching content online, video has also played a massive part in the growth of companies globally.

Just take a look at YouTube's statistics to see how mind boggling the 'video revolution' has become, for example: 500 years of YouTube videos are watched every day on Facebook. Crazy!

We've pulled together a few interesting statistics from the past 12 months to sum up how web video has also been impacting on businesses.

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21 December 2012 by Colleen Thomas

The StoneHack Challenge

Three hackathons in 3 days during which teachers suggest ideas for apps and challenge developers to build working prototypes in a day. Prizes for winners and runners-up each day. Venue is the Stone Computers stand (C70) at BETT, Excel Centre, London. 30 Jan --2 Feb 2013. More info here: http://hackathoncentral.com

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: Excel Centre, UK

a4uexpo Europe 2013

a4uexpo Europe 2013 will see in excess of 900 delegates come together in Amsterdam, to learn, share knowledge, network and be at the forefront of digital evolution. Join us for 30+ interactive conference sessions covering the very latest in performance marketing, alongside networking, value-add features and a lively exhibition floor.

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Date: 2 July 2013
Location: Hotel Okura, NL

Geeks on a Plane: Investment with a Twist

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Dave McClure exports the experts.

His brainchild, Geeks On A Plane arranges to ship VCs and experienced entrepreneurs and journalists to far flung places in order to research and invest in foreign startups. 

This month, they came south to New Zealand and I met the team at a speed pitching competition hosted by the Icehouse Incubator.

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20 December 2012 by Chinwag Team

MongoDB Stockholm 2013

MongoDB Stockholm is our annual user conference in Sweden dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. From learning the details of a production use case, to discovering new techniques for scaling your infrastructure, you will walk away with immediately applicable skills.

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Date: 3 May 2012
Location: Courtyard Stockholm Kungsholmen, SE

MongoDB UK 2013

MongoDB UK is our annual user conference in London dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. From learning the details of a production use case, to discovering new techniques for scaling your infrastructure, you will walk away with immediately applicable skills.

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Date: 8 April 2013
Location: Grand Connaught Rooms, UK

Chinwag Psych

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Big Data in Finance

Big Data Innovations in the Finance space, Cass Business School January 14th

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Date: 14 January 2013
Location: Cass Business School, UK