Bright new ideas from Seedcamp

The Guardian brought SeedCamp to my attention the other day, which is like a European KickStarter for entrepreneurs. Lord Sir Alan Sugar would be proud.

The idea is that small startup companies with big ideas can pitch to SeedCamp and get the funding they need to develop or launch their product or service. Or, In SeedCamp?s own words, ?Seedcamp is an early-stage micro seed investment fund and mentoring programme? For the winning companies of any event where we choose to make an investment, Seedcamp?s standard investment is: ?50,000 for 8-10% per cent of the company.?

What caught my eye the most were some of the Guardian?s top 20 picks, which look genuinely fun, useful or some combination thereof. Here are my picks of their picks:

Crowd is in private beta, but is a photo sharing service where users can share images in real-time, allowing people to experience other locations via geo-tagged image taken there.

EnergyBob is just a placeholder URL for the company that aims to make energy metering smarter. The EnergyBob server ?talks to Google's Latitude's API to determine when you're on your way home, and when the heating needs to come on? for example. The appliance is set to cost ?99 for installation and ?9 a month thereafter.

CityMapper is a service that connects the various and many ways to travel around London into one map-driven interface. CityMapper integrates everything from the Tube and buses to the Boris bikes and just walking into one application; it also tells you how much you?ll pay for your journey, or how many calories you?ll burn off. You can use the service now.

Myows stands for ?My Original Works? and is a way to share and distribute your creative work while maintaining control over it. Users store their copyrighted material (which can be images, video, music, artwork or whatever) with Myows, which allows the copyright holder to prove ownership, manage their rights and chase copyright infringements. ?[i] Myows is already storing 18,000 registered works and has solved 72 infringement cases.[i]?

opensignalmaps is a simple idea: overlay the strength of mobile reception on a map. You can select your operator and what level of network you?re looking for (ie, just 3G reception). You can use the service now, and it might come in handy for holidays in remote locations.

Travelstormer might come in handy if you?re arranging a trip with friends, as it helps organise a bunch of people?s travel needs. Once you?ve ?brainstormed? the best plan, you crowdsource travel tips from other Travelstormer users before finalising your plans.

There are more interesting ideas in the Guardian's SeedCamp story and on the SeedCamp site itself.

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If Phones Ring, Obama Is Here, With Cell Power

Chilmark, a town of gentle hills and wandering stone walls in the outer reaches of Martha?s Vineyard, has spotty cellular service, at best, for most of the year. But when President Obama and his family arrive for what has become a yearly August vacation, something magical happens.

?Suddenly my phone starts ringing,? said Rachel Fox, an entertainment lawyer from Manhattan whose family has a home here. ?There are people for whom this is a very big deal ? not just that the president comes, but that their cellphones work while he?s here.?

The better reception is due to two temporary cell towers (known as cell on wheels) that Verizon puts up here and in neighboring West Tisbury, said Timothy R. Carroll, the executive secretary in Chilmark. He said the White House Communications Agency, which handles phone systems for the president and other federal officials, had requested the towers.

They went up in early August and will stay until the end of the month, Mr. Carroll said, adding, ?I would have been happy if they came in July.?

Not everyone benefits from the better signal. James Ford, an AT&T customer from Saranac Lake, N.Y., had no service at the general store on Thursday. But his friend Stefan Martin, a Verizon customer, did.

?I have four bars right now,? Mr. Martin said, waving his iPhone triumphantly.

While cell service can be iffy across Martha?s Vineyard, the most consistent problems are in Chilmark and Aquinnah, the island?s two outermost towns. Many residents and visitors said they considered the few weeks of better connections a kind of gift from the White House. Some described jumping when their phones went off in the library or post office, unaccustomed as they are to hearing them ring at all.

?Today I had one of my employee?s phones going off in her pocketbook,? said Jeanne Taylor, who owns the Outermost Inn in Aquinnah. ?She said, ?Oh my God, I?m getting service!? ?

Jennifer LoRusso, an owner of the Chilmark General Store, said the flurry of ringtones had been disorienting, adding, ?Nobody knows what?s going on.?

And Paul McIntyre, a lawyer from Philadelphia, recalled his frustration during a vacation here several years ago when he frantically tried to e-mail a work memo from the Aquinnah Cliffs. ?It?s surprisingly good,? he said of his BlackBerry reception now.

But others ? especially those who live or vacation in Chilmark because it is remote ? rolled their eyes when asked about the improved connection with the outside world.

?A lot of the people who vote here, who live here year-round, couldn?t care less if the people who invade them in the summer get to talk to their Hollywood producers in the middle of the Chilmark store,? Ms. Fox said.

Ms. LoRusso said the lack of cell service ?keeps things up-island and rural.? Mr. Ford, who has spent the summer working on a farm here, said: ?Personally, I like being disconnected. I like the privacy.?

Even when the president is not in town, people who know this place well have ?sweet spots? where they sometimes, inexplicably, get cell signals. Mrs. Taylor said visitors to her inn could often make calls from the 13th flagstone on the front walkway.

Chris Buchanan, a return visitor from Los Angeles, said he could receive texts (but not send them) at the base of the swordfish sculpture in Menemsha, a fishing village that is part of Chilmark. (Service in Menemsha was nearly nonexistent on Thursday, however; perhaps Mr. Obama?s entourage had no wish to venture there.)

Chilmark residents have voted down proposals to build cell towers in the past, with some saying they would mar the landscape. Mr. Carroll said he expected ?a hue and cry about ?What is that? Get it out of our face? ? when the temporary towers were first put up for the Obamas? visit in 2009.

?But I didn?t get a single complaint, and people were eager to have it come back,? he said. ?They weren?t necessarily eager to have the president come back because of the traffic. But they were eager to have Verizon bring the cell on wheels early this year.?

Laura Williams, a spokeswoman for the White House Communications Agency, said its job was to ensure ?that the president has the best communications possible wherever he travels? so that he can ?remain informed and connected.? But Ms. Williams would not answer specific questions about the enhanced service, including how much it costs and who pays for it, citing security concerns.

Barbara Baldwin, a teacher from Philadelphia and an Obama fan, said she would not mind if taxpayers were footing the bill.

?I wouldn?t care even if it was Bush, who I hate,? said Ms. Baldwin, who was at the beach in Menemsha. ?I mean, come on. They?re leading a country. They have to be in contact with people.?

One of the temporary towers is on a trailer across from the Chilmark General Store; the other is behind Linda Alley?s house in West Tisbury, on her neighbor?s land.

Ms. Alley, a Vineyard native, estimated that Blue Heron Farm, where the Obamas are staying, was less than a mile from her shingled house.

How did she feel about the improved cell service from the nearby tower?

?I?m not attached to my cellphone like a lot of people are,? she said. ?I couldn?t care less.?

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Technology and altruism: Social media can bring out the best in people? but does the cause matter?

If you happened to miss the story, as a pay-it-forward social experiment, Jonathan Stark, a programmer, shared his Starbucks card online. He encouraged people to use the card to buy themselves a coffee, as well as contribute money to the card so that someone else could use it. Stark also set up a Twitter feed to track the changes on the card. In the process thousands of dollars were donated and spent at Starbucks.

Sam Odio, yet another programmer, came up with a tiny piece of code which allowed him to transfer funds from Jonathan?s Starbucks card onto this own. Odio has been harshly criticized for his move, and for putting the code online, which effectively brought the feel-good social experiment to an end. What most people tend to forget is that Odio went very public with the information, when he could have just as easily taken the money and kept quiet. They also forget that he sold his Starbucks card on eBay and donated the money to charity.

It?s also worth noting that it was also Stark?s intention to find a way to donate the extra money that was generated through Starbucks? benefit system. The Guardian quotes him as saying, ?Initially I thought the free coffee would be added to the card but that?s not the case. They send you a postcard. At one point I had over 1,000 coffees owed so the plan is to wait until it dies down a bit, take a month of transactions, work out what the money equivalent is ? it could be $10,000 or more ? and give it to charity.?

Was the experiment a worthy cause?

Now that the dust has settled, discussions about the experiment are divided into one of two areas. They?re either discussing how great it was and how it brought out the altruistic side of people, while others are focused on Sam Odio, saying that he ruined a great experiment.

What surprised me was the fact that very few people seemed to focus on a different question. Aren?t there better ways we can put our time, efforts and social media to use, other than buying a stranger an over-priced latte? While I appreciate the theory of how generous people were, and how so many people were clearly willing to pay it forward, but had it been for a more worthy cause, it would have been much more worth the effort. And if it had been, I?d like to think that Sam Odio wouldn?t have come up with a script to hack the card.

A day before the card was shutdown by Starbucks, a staggering $11,000 had been loaded onto the card. That?s  $11,000 worth of coffee in under a month. This begs the question ? were there better ways that money could have been put to use?

To be fair, there?s no denying that Stark had nothing but good intentions. If you go to the site where the card once was, you?ll see a short entry, part of which reads:

We believe this is the start to a bigger more glowing picture. In the last 5 days or so, we?ve received hundreds of stories of people doing small things to brighten a stranger?s day: Paying for the next car at the drive through. Sharing a pick me up with someone who has had a rough time. Charging up a phone card and sharing it with strangers at the airport. The list goes on, and on, and on?

But let?s take a look at another Starbucks related initiative that preceded Stark?s. After calculating how much she was spending on coffee at Starbucks, Courtney Carver decided to forego her caffeine fix, and use the money for something else. Taking the $225, the amount she would normally spend on Starbucks in a month, Carver spent the money on creating mini care packages, sticking snacks, juice boxes and a few dollars into paper bags. Whenever she came across someone who she felt needed a pick-me-up, she handed out one of her paper bags.

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Which matters more? The altruism or the cause?

Some might argue that it doesn?t really matter what the cause is. The fact that so many people were willing to step up and donate money for the greater good, no matter what that money is going towards, should be enough. In fact, some people donated far more money than they spent on the card. While that is to be admired, there?s a part of me that simply can?t let go of the idea that the cause matters more than anything else.

It might make us feel good to be part of a hip social experiment where we know that we had a hand in making sure that someone, somewhere, got a free cup of coffee directly as a result of our actions. Hell, maybe someone who normally doesn?t get to splurge on Starbucks got themselves a nice and rare treat thanks to Jonathan?s card.

The card has highlighted one very important fact. It?s very easy to put technology and social media to work for a good cause. So what are a few examples of that?

Using Twitter for a good cause

Twestival is a great example of how to put social media to work for a good cause. When it first launched, Twestival raised $250,000 in under a week. So what is Twestival? The initiative is described on the website as:

A single day, global movement which uses the power of social media to organize offline events that mobilize communities in support of a local cause. Twestival was born out of the idea that if communities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but working from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact.

We?ve already told you about Tweetback, a fundraising initiative which hinged on the use of Twitter both as a fundraising and marketing tool. In the space of one week the initiative was able to raise $200,000. What was the premise? Donors would get publicity on Twitter through high-profile tweeters with thousands of followers.

The initiative wasn?t without controversy though. A group of tweeters criticized it, saying that the large conglomerate donors weren?t in it for altruistic purposes, and that corporate social responsibility on the whole is nothing more than corporate whitewash. Others came to the event?s defense, saying that at the end of the day, the money was raised for a good cause, and one in desperate need of help.

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SwipeGood

SwipeGood is a service which tracks your credit or debit card purchases, rounds up the total to the nearest dollar and donates the difference to charity.

Hundreds of charities are benefiting from these donations, including Invisible Children, SmartGiving, Food for the Poor, PETA, and more. What?s great about how SwipeGood works is that you can choose which charity to donate to yourself, and if your charity of choice isn?t listed, you can always encourage them to apply to become a part of the program.

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Twitter itself has created the #betternow initiative, where it highlights causes and gives users a way to contribute donations, as was done with the #Hope4Japan initiative.

Tickets For Charity

Next time you?re thinking of buying a ticket online for a concert, sports event, or theater show, it might be worth checking Tickets for Charity. The site offers great seats at live events at face value. In addition, each ticket is accompanied by a pre-determined donation, all of which goes directly to the charity you select. Charities which benefit from these donations include Autism Speaks, CARE, Feeding America and Habitat for Humanity.

These are just three of the many examples that are a Google-search away. There?s no limit to how you can use these tools for the good of others.

Jonathan?s Starbucks card has spawned clones, hell bent on keeping the initiative going. I can only hope it spawns clones that take the concept away from a free cup of coffee and instead result in a hot meal for someone who can?t afford one.

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The Evolution of Motorola?s Wireless Technology

1930 First Motorola brand car radio (reproduction), model 5T71

With this week's announcement of Google's plan to buy Motorola Mobility, we took a look at the significant technology milestones in the company?s history. Motorola, founded in 1928 as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, was pivotal in advancing communications from business to space and government. Achievements included everything from releasing the world?s first commercial handheld cellular phone to introducing one of the first commercially successful car radios in 1930, reproduced above.

This radio was the first product to carry the Motorola brand. It was designed to be mass-produced, affordable, and easily installed. The components, as shown in this reproduction, included (left to right) radio receiver, tuning control, and speaker.

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If Phones Ring, Obama Is Here, With Cell Power

Chilmark, a town of gentle hills and wandering stone walls in the outer reaches of Martha?s Vineyard, has spotty cellular service, at best, for most of the year. But when President Obama and his family arrive for what has become a yearly August vacation, something magical happens.

?Suddenly my phone starts ringing,? said Rachel Fox, an entertainment lawyer from Manhattan whose family has a home here. ?There are people for whom this is a very big deal ? not just that the president comes, but that their cellphones work while he?s here.?

The better reception is due to two temporary cell towers (known as cell on wheels) that Verizon puts up here and in neighboring West Tisbury, said Timothy R. Carroll, the executive secretary in Chilmark. He said the White House Communications Agency, which handles phone systems for the president and other federal officials, had requested the towers.

They went up in early August and will stay until the end of the month, Mr. Carroll said, adding, ?I would have been happy if they came in July.?

Not everyone benefits from the better signal. James Ford, an AT&T customer from Saranac Lake, N.Y., had no service at the general store on Thursday. But his friend Stefan Martin, a Verizon customer, did.

?I have four bars right now,? Mr. Martin said, waving his iPhone triumphantly.

While cell service can be iffy across Martha?s Vineyard, the most consistent problems are in Chilmark and Aquinnah, the island?s two outermost towns. Many residents and visitors said they considered the few weeks of better connections a kind of gift from the White House. Some described jumping when their phones went off in the library or post office, unaccustomed as they are to hearing them ring at all.

?Today I had one of my employee?s phones going off in her pocketbook,? said Jeanne Taylor, who owns the Outermost Inn in Aquinnah. ?She said, ?Oh my God, I?m getting service!? ?

Jennifer LoRusso, an owner of the Chilmark General Store, said the flurry of ringtones had been disorienting, adding, ?Nobody knows what?s going on.?

And Paul McIntyre, a lawyer from Philadelphia, recalled his frustration during a vacation here several years ago when he frantically tried to e-mail a work memo from the Aquinnah Cliffs. ?It?s surprisingly good,? he said of his BlackBerry reception now.

But others ? especially those who live or vacation in Chilmark because it is remote ? rolled their eyes when asked about the improved connection with the outside world.

?A lot of the people who vote here, who live here year-round, couldn?t care less if the people who invade them in the summer get to talk to their Hollywood producers in the middle of the Chilmark store,? Ms. Fox said.

Ms. LoRusso said the lack of cell service ?keeps things up-island and rural.? Mr. Ford, who has spent the summer working on a farm here, said: ?Personally, I like being disconnected. I like the privacy.?

Even when the president is not in town, people who know this place well have ?sweet spots? where they sometimes, inexplicably, get cell signals. Mrs. Taylor said visitors to her inn could often make calls from the 13th flagstone on the front walkway.

Chris Buchanan, a return visitor from Los Angeles, said he could receive texts (but not send them) at the base of the swordfish sculpture in Menemsha, a fishing village that is part of Chilmark. (Service in Menemsha was nearly nonexistent on Thursday, however; perhaps Mr. Obama?s entourage had no wish to venture there.)

Chilmark residents have voted down proposals to build cell towers in the past, with some saying they would mar the landscape. Mr. Carroll said he expected ?a hue and cry about ?What is that? Get it out of our face? ? when the temporary towers were first put up for the Obamas? visit in 2009.

?But I didn?t get a single complaint, and people were eager to have it come back,? he said. ?They weren?t necessarily eager to have the president come back because of the traffic. But they were eager to have Verizon bring the cell on wheels early this year.?

Laura Williams, a spokeswoman for the White House Communications Agency, said its job was to ensure ?that the president has the best communications possible wherever he travels? so that he can ?remain informed and connected.? But Ms. Williams would not answer specific questions about the enhanced service, including how much it costs and who pays for it, citing security concerns.

Barbara Baldwin, a teacher from Philadelphia and an Obama fan, said she would not mind if taxpayers were footing the bill.

?I wouldn?t care even if it was Bush, who I hate,? said Ms. Baldwin, who was at the beach in Menemsha. ?I mean, come on. They?re leading a country. They have to be in contact with people.?

One of the temporary towers is on a trailer across from the Chilmark General Store; the other is behind Linda Alley?s house in West Tisbury, on her neighbor?s land.

Ms. Alley, a Vineyard native, estimated that Blue Heron Farm, where the Obamas are staying, was less than a mile from her shingled house.

How did she feel about the improved cell service from the nearby tower?

?I?m not attached to my cellphone like a lot of people are,? she said. ?I couldn?t care less.?

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Auto SMS: An out-of-office reply for your Android phone

Auto SMS is a handy little Android app which lets you send pre-set automated messages whenever you want. The most obvious use for this app is while you?re driving. If you tend to receive urgent messages, or just like to let people know why you can?t reply straight away, Auto SMS will shoot off a message for you. Not only can you use it to reply to text messages, it can also be used to send messages to people who try to call you while you can?t answer the phone.

Auto SMS is also useful in a ton of other situations. If you?re in a meeting, and want to keep clients informed of your whereabouts, this app has you covered.

How does it work?

You can create as many different profiles as you like. Profile settings include whether to send the auto response to both SMS messages and missed calls, choose the actual message, and set the duration for which the profile is activated.

Auto SMS also gives you complete control over who receives your automated messages. You can also choose to send the reply to anyone who tries to get in touch, to your contacts list only, or to a select group of contacts. In addition, you can also choose to exclude specific contacts from receiving your automated reply.

Schedule messages to be sent later

Auto SMS comes with a few extra features which makes it even more useful, if you use text messaging on your Android phone on a regular basis. If you know there?s a certain message you need to send someone, but aren?t sure when exactly, you can create an Instant message, and it?s ready to send whenever you need. This is a convenient feature if you?re particularly forgetful. In addition to creating instant messages, you can also schedule messages. Simply enter the date and time, recipients, and the message, and it will be automatically sent to them.

Have your SMS messages read to you

The final major feature in Auto SMS is the ability to have your SMS messages read to you. Launching the reader, you can have the app read English messages sent within a certain period of time, or all of your messages. In addition, you can also set it to automatically read SMS messages to you as they are received. Again, this is another very useful feature to have switched on while you?re driving, so that you don?t get distracted trying to read messages as they come in.

Other features in Auto SMS include widgets for the Instant, Profile and Reader features, and you can even use the app to schedule certain times you want to set your phone to silent automatically. To take advantage of this feature, simply create a profile in which you set the times you want the ringer to be switched off, and uncheck the SMS and Phone Auto Response options.

Auto SMS covers all the possible bases when it comes to staying safe on the road with your phone, or stopping your phone from going off in the middle of an important meeting. It?s incredibly convenient, and because of how flexible the app?s settings are, you can tweak it to suit your own personal needs.

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Sprint mulling Clearwire buyout?

Sprint is reportedly looking to cable providers for an investment that would help Clearwire build an LTE-based wireless network. The struggling WiMAX company has suffered substantial losses this year and it is unlikely they could erect the planned network without financial backing. 

Sprint, the third largest wireless carrier in the US, owns a majority share in Clearwire and could be looking at a few different options as they move forward, Bloomberg reports.

If Sprint can gather enough support from cable companies, those funds could go directly towards the LTE network rollout and nothing would change as far as ownership. But what?s in it for the cable providers?

In addition to Sprint ownership, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks all lay claim to shares of Clearwire, meaning an initial investment in a speedy wireless infrastructure could pay dividends in the long run. It wouldn?t be surprising to see cable providers offering wireless service alongside television and Internet packages should this deal pan out.

Another option could see Sprint buy the remaining shares of Clearwire outright and funding the project themselves. This would give them substantial leverage against rival AT&T, especially in light of the planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. We have no idea how much this would cost, but it wouldn?t be cheap to buy the remaining shares of the company and fund the network alone.

Clearwire needs about $600 million to complete their LTE network. Talks are still in early stages and a deal is not imminent.

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Was Skyrim ever going to use Games For Windows Live?

Was Skyrim ever going to use Games For Windows Live?

Posted on 18th Aug 2011 at 14:59 by Clive Webster with 34 comments

The news that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will definitely use Steamworks rather than Games For Windows Live has shot around the Internet today, but (and with the greatest of respect to those reporting the story) it doesn?t appear as if Skyrim was ever going to use GFWL.

That hasn?t stopped the rumour of GFWL rubbishness afflicting the next Scrolls Elder Scrolls game (that is confusing, isn?t it?), resulting in the Elder Scrolls Twitter stating that ?We can confirm today that we're using Steamworks for Skyrim?

The confusion came from the promotion picture for Skyrim, where the PC version was placed behind the Xbox 360 and PS3 boxes. The Games For Windows logo was showing and many people worried that the word ?Live? might be on the end. However, the Games For Windows logo features on a lot of game boxes and merely means? actually, I?m not sure what it means, or guarantees and implies. That the game doesn?t run on Linux and Mac?


Anyway, the point is, this logo is harmless and does not mean you have to use GFWL. Moreover, the Games for Windows Live logo is larger, with the Live bit underneath the word Games. It?s easy to spot, and therefore avoid when possible, as these images show:


Quite why Microsoft insists on such stringent online authentication and activation procedures on the PC and is so much more relaxed on the Xbox 360 is beyond me ? piracy is as much of a problem on console as on PC and yet it?s PC gamers that have to suffer the counter-measures. Anyhoo, hope the above helps when you?re out shopping, or looking at future cross-platform release photography!

Check our GamesCom 2011 news hub for all the information from Cologne this year.

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