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£5 App - The grown-from-garage EuroGamer

By Ian Ozsvald • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Business, Events

Last Tuesday Rupert of EuroGamer gave a great talk on how he and his brother built one of Europe’s largest gaming news sites from their parent’s garage.
The story began aged 14 when he and his brother built a simple CMS to publish their game reviews. The site grew more popular and so did their […]



Scoop & Crumb for Geek Ice Cream

By Ian Ozsvald • Jan 19th, 2008 • Category: Business, Community

Scoop and Crumb is a new cafe in East Street run by John (a friend of mine and Shardcore’s). Their differentiator is home made real ice-cream - new batches are made every few days by John himself.
I popped in this morning and John was good enough to give me some tasters…darn fine they were […]



OpenCoffee Sussex - 15-strong-turnout

By Ian Ozsvald • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Business, Community, Events

OpenCoffee Sussex ran this morning at the Innovation Centre from 9-11am. We had 15 attendees including Luke from WiredSussex, Peter from SInC, several students and the founders of a number of local tech companies.
I presented ShowMeDo for the 5-minute talk and asked for feedback on what sort of tutorial videos people might like to […]



Café Scientifique Brighton

By Ian Ozsvald • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

Last night Davina Bristow of the BBC spoke at the monthly Café Scientifique on “The Neuroscience of Love”. Davina gave a good account of recent research into attraction, sex and relationships with reference to work on reptiles, fish and humans.
What struck me as really interesting was that the talk had to be held in […]



Widgety Goodness ‘07

By Ian Ozsvald • Dec 8th, 2007 • Category: Events

On Thursday I attended Ivan’s Widgety Goodness 07 conference - the first web-widgets conference for Brighton.
Caveat - I’m not really the target audience for the conference. I’m a developer and entrepreneur, I’m not a widgeter, I don’t need ‘widget provision services’. I was curious about the content so went to check things out.
On the […]



£5 App Xmas Special

By Ian Ozsvald • Dec 8th, 2007 • Category: Community

On Tuesday John and I ran our 9th £5 App - our Xmas Special. We had a grand turn-out of 39 people situated with beer in the Quadrant Pub in the heart of Brighton (pictures - thanks Jane, John and the rest).
First up Annesley talked about his DaoConsumer IE plugin - it lets users […]