October 2011
9 posts
Launch news: Delta Strike
User testimonials: “Amazing graphics and visual effects” “What? This is a Flash Game, are you kidding?” “The Trailer video is so awesome, I tried out the beta right away!”
Delta Strike is a scifi action RPG that takes a console game experience and makes it playable on Facebook. The game launched at the Adobe MAX Conference and is the first available 3D action...
Launch news: Fantasy Shopper
User testimonials: “It’s amazing and addictive and my new favourite thing.” (link) “I actually LOVE Fantasy Shopper.” (link) “Hi, my name is Rachel and I’m a Fantasy Shopper addict.” (link) “I think fantasyshopper.com might be similar to what happens in very good dreams.” (link)
Fantasy Shopper is a social shopping game and a fashion discovery...
Seven HackFwd Startups in The Europas!
We are pleased to have a strong representation in The Europas, as already mentioned above in some places. The Europas are the main European Awards for early stage Internet and Mobile technology startups. Seven of our portfolio companies are nominated in their categories! The Europas is shaping up to be a promising event (here’s the event registration, only a few tickets left at the time of...
Launch news: Reign of Steel
User testimonials from Facebook: “Fun Fun Fun!! Perfect!! Thanks for this great game!” “Best browsergame ever ;D”
Reign of Steel is a 3D tank multiplayer game, in your browser. It has yesterday seen a complete relaunch and is already getting a lot of love from the players. The game is relaunched primarily on Facebook and Bigpoint. In addition to the new maps, new tanks...
Launch News: Watchlater v2.1
User testimonial: “I’m totally in love with this app. Every time I go on a trip, and there have been quite a lot recently, I load all kinds of crap on my iPad, to keep myself entertained while I’m jammed into an economy class seat in 30.000 feet.” (link)
Watchlater has since their launch been called “Instapaper for video”, but with the new version, the comparison...
Improve Your Event's Visibility and Attendee...
This is a cross-post from sharypic’s blog. sharypic gives you a single place to add, share and organize everyone’s photos from an event.
Pulling off a great event is a lot of work.
Two of the challenges for event organizers are attendee engagement and increasing visibility. After all the promotional work and logistical organization, the event is finally happening and the attendees...
The Things of the Future - Talk from Build 0.7
Cennydd Bowles is a freelance digital product designer based in the UK. You can read his blog here.
Do you contribute to the digital landfill? Are we creating products that really add genuine value, both to the users and businesses involved? At the 2011 CES, about 20,000 consumer electronics products were launched. Helen Walters, whom, Cennydd Bowles quotes in the start of his talk, remarked:...
Fantasy Shopper UK Launch
Fantasy Shopper has today launched in the UK, opening its doors after a meticulous private beta period. GigaOm’s Bobbie Johnson wrote an in-depth story about the product, and the first users pouring in the door are very enthusiastic. Some Fantasy Shoppers are already happy to admit their addiction to the new social shopping game.
Fantasy Shopper has many things going for it. It is a game,...
Werner Vogels: Amazon and the Lean Cloud
We were honoured to have Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO, give a talk at HackFwd’s Build 0.7 event in Berlin on the how and the why of Amazon’s cloud business. In the talk, Vogels covers Amazon’s history, design principles and learnings from building a world-changing cloud services business. Watch the video for the entirety of the superb talk.
“Amazon is a technology...
