London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 29 June 2012 Dear LSR Member, Hope you're all doing well and thanks to those of you who have responded to our recent call for Gurus - we look forward to announcing the plans for our new program very soon and the line-up is looking great so far :) There's still time to get involved if you are, or know someone who is, a Guru in any of the following areas: Business Models, Dev Platforms, UX/UI or Marketing. If you'd like more info on getting involved, then just get in touch with me! Enjoy the weekend! Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com

London Silicon Roundabout Group @techmeetupsLSR Like us on Facebook for more updates! EVENTS TechMeetups App Hackathon: HTML5 & Cloud #tmuhack July 20, 2012, 6:00 PM Venue: City University London [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups London Silicon Roundabout Summer Party #tmudrinks Aug 09, 2012, 6:00 PM Venue: Coming Soon [ RSVP HERE ] 02-July: Brixton Book Jam 02-July: Mobile Web Meetup - High Performance Mobile Web 02-July: Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA 02-July: TechHub Mobile Meet Up Lunch - Big Fat Soft Key 02-July: In The Brain of Udi Dahan: Commands, Queries, and Consistency

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02-July: Lean Startup Machine - Alumni Dinner 03-July: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance 05-July: Introduction to Programming for Non-Techies 03-July: IPA Strategy Group - Modern Briefing 03-July: The code doesn't tell the whole story 03-July: EMOTIONAL IT 04-July: London Emberjs User Group 04-July: MongoDB for Developers 04-July: Propaganda Factory 2012 04-July: The Public Services Network: An Efficient and Connected Future 04-July: Simon Brown's Software Architecture For Developers Workshop 04-July: TechHub and GFK Workshop - Understand your consumer! 04-July: TechHub Pearson 'Innovate or Inhibit' Debate 04-July: Combatting Tenancy Fraud: Detection, Prevention and Enforcement 04-July: Marketing Software as a Service 05-July: Big Society 2012: Accessing Funding, Delivering Change 05-July: Big Data: Exploiting Next Generation Analytics 05-July: Talking Business: Strategic User Experience and Digital Excellence 05-July: Free Schools: Extending Choice for Pupils, Parents and Teachers 05-July: Information Literacy Executive Briefing 2012 05-July: Scripting Nginx with Lua 05-July: Riak Meetup London: Distributed Systems Performance

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05-July: Free talk: Case Study Involving Strategic Design And Established Formalisms. Jul 5. 05-July: Introduction to Programming for Non-Techies 06-July: dev4good 06-July: Mad About Mobile Learning 06-July: Wild Thing 06-July: YouTube Mobile / Google TV London Hackathon 16 July: Second Meetup: Talks and Networking

IN THE NEWS
Visit the "Tech City Central" tent Over on Shoreditch High Street a few weeks ago, an expensive-looking tent popped up, with little pomp and ceremony, apparently as part of the Governments Tech City project, anoften controversial attempt to boost the technology companies in Shoreditch and East London. Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool Were so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, thats the common refrain, at least. And we havent even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while not since companies like Prezi, Animoto, and(VMWare-acquired) SlideRocket were making the rounds in the startup scene, that is. London startup Makie puts toy-making power in consumers hands Smart toys customized to each users individual requirements may sound like a childrens fantasy but theyre now reality thanks to MakieLab, a small London startup which has developed a next generation doll that straddles the digital and physical worlds by harnessing the potential of 3-D printing with the ease of user generation of content online. Google TV service launches in UK with Sony tie-up Sony and Google have announced a tie-up that will see Googles interactive TV service made available outside the US for the first time. With $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy, Microsofts Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape

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The actual price tag is exactly what had been reported by the Wall Street Journal more than a week ago. According to Microsoft, the Yammer team will be folded into its Microsoft Office division while continuing to report to Yammers CEO and co-founder David Sacks. We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout JOBS

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