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Video: Interview with multiple award winner Spotify at #Europas
This is a re-post from Techcrunch Europe.
As you may well have heard, the big winner at The Europas Awards on Thursday night was Spotify, which won four awards (Best We app, Best New Startup, Best Founder Team and the Grand Prix). Here’s Shakil Khan (the video title is mis-spelt), Spotify’s Consigliere, sharing with writer and author Paul Carr and myself how he felt about winning four awards, including The Europas Grand Prix award:
TechCrunch Europa Awards in London
We were lucky to be in London for this year’s TechCrunch Europa Awards this past week.
Held half in a venue that was separated by a wide hallway (great for networking), one section had a stage set up while the other was dedicated to passing plates of food and a bar.
There were many differences between similar events in Silicon Valley, notably the diversity, the level of enthusiasm and the dedication to staying up all night to celebrate, well after the venue closed its doors.
Outside, people gathered as it was a relatively warm night; cameras were shooting, flips were activated and wine was pouring. (more…)
UK: Cambridge And Professor Stephen Hawking
It’s been a fascinating and exhausting week on the Traveling Geeks tour. The best part has been our visit to Cambridge, the innovation capital of England. I’ve got lots of material to post from our trip, all this week, so please check back regularly.
One highlight of the trip was on Saturday night. My son Matt and I were looking for a place to eat. We just happened to choose one of the favorite spots for Professor Stephen Hawking. It was a huge honor to be in the same room as Britain’s top scientist.
The photo shows his two blond assistants helping him with his high-tech wheelchair.
A Chat with Moshi Monster’s Michael Acton Smith
A chat with Moshi Monster’s Michael Acton Smith at the offices of Accel Partners in London.
A view from Whitehall
Part of the Traveling Geeks tour.
Millennium Bridge, and St. Paul's in the distance.
A view in Charterhouse Square
Our hotel was adjacent to an old monastery in Charterhouse Square.
The Charterhouse is on the site of a former Carthusian monastery founded in 1371, by Walter de Manny,
on what is now the north side of the square. It was established near a
1348 plague pit, located in the square, which formed the largest mass
grave in London during the Black Death when around half the population died of the plague. Tens of thousands of bodies were buried here. The name is derived as an Anglicisation of La Grande Chartreuse, whose order founded the monastery.
Skype Talks Social Media
Peter Parkes Editor-in-Chief and Neil Dodd, Windows Experience Manager at Skype talk to me about their social media roles in London and beyond.
Rap to Celebreate Darwin 200th Anniversary
As I was dining with a group of technology innovators, scientists, professors and entrepreneurs in Cambridge at Kings College on Friday night, someone played a rap from the previous night, which was in celebration of the Darwin 200th Anniversary Dinner. Click below to listen.
Handhelds for Doctors
Innovator of Handheld Digital Medical Records
At the Cambridge University Pitt Building, in a program led by Omobono Digital Services, we viewed show and tell presentations by some of Cambridge’s most promising start-ups. Among several good ideas was a great one presented by Dr. Al-Ubaydli. Conversion to digital medical records has been an American national quest for the past decade and a priority for the Obama Administration. Dr. Al-Ubaydli has been working with the Feds (NIH) for the past six years to bring his hand-held medical records download program to fruition. He suggested that University of Cambridge is a great incubator to work from and he collaborates with doctors and engineers in the States and elsewhere to bring the technology to market.
Great example of global technology development, incubated in university labs, solving big problems through collaboration of doctors, hospitals, governments, and industry.
Photo Credit: Renee Blodgett http://www.downtheavenue.com/
Traveling Geeks at eConsultancy
Traveling Geeks at the eConsultancy roundtable in London this week.
