Interview with the Guardian

It was a big coo for Spoonfed this week as I was interviewed by Jemima Kiss for the Guardian TechWeekly Podcast. The interview took the format of an elevator pitch which was a good way to introduce Spoonfed to a new audience and talk about our plans for rest of 2009.

You can download the Tech Weekly podcast and have a listen yourself at Guardian online.

Spoonfed partners with International Buddhist Film Festival

We love working with other companies over here at Spoonfed and this month we’ve partnerned up with the International Buddhist Film Festival at the Barbican. Tom’s written up a lovely preview of the event here, if any of you are interesting in going along.

London Bloggers Meetup and YORAS gig

Meg and I went down to the London Bloggers Meetup last night to show off our new iPhone app, the Event Radar which was released yesterday. It was great to see a lot of people excited about our new venture and it seems like a lot of people were already downloading it!

We didn’t have time to bask in the glory though as we soon left to join the rest of the Spoonfed crew at a team outing. The whole office headed down to Ginglik in West London to support Years of Rice and Salt as a battle of the bands night. Our Senior Developer Julian is the guitarist in the band and all the Spoonfed crew trooped along to offer our support. We’ll have to wait a few days to find out how they did, but it was great to see some old and new Spoonfed faces together to relax after a busy weeks with a few drinks, great live music and plenty of noodles.

Spoonfed iPhone Event Radar Launch

Today is a very exciting day at Spoonfed as we are launching London’s first location based iPhone application for events.  If you’re ever stuck in the pub with a few friends and not sure  what to do next, the Event Radar gives you quick and easy access to all the events going on around you now.

The Spoonfed Event Radar helps you make plans while you are on the move by finding your location and building a picture of what’s going on around you to include everything from music, comedy, exhibitions, club nights and pub based fun. The whole Spoonfed team are excited and we are looking forward to feedback.

Spoonfed integrates Twitter

Twitter. It was written off by many people as a celeb driven fad but now it seems sure to stay. Spoonfed have been using Twitter since last summer to update our followers on news and events from around London and we’re going one step further and integrating the real-time updates to our site. Our pages for venues like KOKO and areas around London like Soho will also pick out relevant information from Twitter from around the area or updates from specific venues and their upcoming events.

Below are just a few of the Spoonfed pages that we have linked up to Twitter so far:

Koko

Soho

ICA

V&A

G20 Protests in London

There were a few late arrivals to work yesterday morning, but instead of the usual array of excuses like alarms not going off or lost keys, all the late-comers were tardy for exactly the same reason. Protesters took to the streets around Bank and Moorgate ahead of today’s G20 summit in London where world leaders will meet to announce a global plan for recovery and reform.

Everyone in the office was been following the protests throughout the day via Twitter updates. This may be first London event that managed to capitalise on the real-time effect of Twitter. Spoonfed’s DJ Editor Lowri went down there during lunch to check out what was going on and posted updates to Spoonfed’s Twitter stream too.

According to on-lookers the situation got violent as police clashed with a mixture of environmental protesters and those angry at the banker’s role in the recession.

Lowri wrote up a news piece on the events with more information about the groups involved. You can see it on Spoonfed here.

Michael Jackson announces London shows

The Spoonfed office was buzzing today with the announcement that Michael Jackson will play a staggering 45 shows at London’s O2 arena this summer. As music editor Dom got his head down to some work in listing the details of the ‘This Is It’ farewell tour, the rest of the team used their lunch break to scramble for available tickets. The first round of tickets are already on eBay for as much as £7,000 so even those who aren’t fans of the King of Pop are treating the £50 tickets as a wise investment.

Spoonfed in the FT

Exciting times at Spoonfed at the moment as we were featured in an article in the Entrepeneur section of the Financial Times by Jonathan Moules.

“Alexander Will and Henry Erskine Crum managed to persuade their mentor to become the chairman of their fledgling events listing website, Spoonfed. The pair were still completing their studies at the London School of Economics when they were introduced by a friend to Kevin Eyres, European managing director of LinkedIn, the global social networking website.”

Click here for full article.

Festivals on Spoonfed

As ever, its been a busy couple of weeks at Spoonfed working out all the exciting and underground things to do in london. This week the editorial team have been putting together a schedule for the summer festival season, and I have been overhearing the interesting debates for the best London festivals and those across the UK. I thought I would throw caution to the wind and list those festivals that I’ve enjoyed over the recent years, and those that I might attend.

16 – 19 July 2009
Glade: Matterley Bowl, Winchester

23 – 26 July 2009
Secret Garden Party: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

24-26 July, 2009
Womad: Charlton Park

Reminiscing about New Years Break

Had an amazing time in Villars skiing over new year. just having a look at some of the photos. Can’t wait to get back.