February 22, 2012 7:00 PM - 131 attended

Hacks/Hackers London: Monthly Meetup

7.00pm  
Disruptive business: the founding of Duedil
Duedil.com

Damian Kimmelman, founder of Duedil, Big Data specialist Chris Simpson and front end developer Joe Green will tell the story of duedil.com and how it is creating a big data business by giving away Companies House information for free.


**PITCH SESSION** 
(Two-minute pitches on any topic that might be of interest to the Hacks/Hackers community. Apply to take a pitch slot by emailing [masked]) 

PITCH 1: Hamish Campbell from visionOnTV introduces Spring of Code
PITCH 2: Nishma Doshi from the Open Rights Group on ORGCon 2012

 

8.00pm 
Apps and the open web: "FT in kiss-and-tell HTML web app shocker"
Stephen Pinches, FT 

Stephen, Group Product Manager - Mobile & Emerging Platforms for the Financial Times, will explain the business and technology decisions behind the launch of their HTML5 web appHe will cover pros/cons of a web approach, the FT's experiences in terms of making money from mobile, and the lessons they learnt along the way. 

 

 

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