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Huddle Table Football League

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Nopadon.

Last night we kicked off our inaugural table football league, by hosting the Moo.com team.   It was a great night of pizza, trash talking, beer, trash talking and foosball.
We had a great time and we want more!  So we’re calling you out!  Come and join our league!  If you’re a start up/new media/tech /internet company [...]

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O is for Online Team Building Games

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Laurika.

Online or virtual teams need just as much motivation as office based ones, even more so because they rarely, if ever, see each other in real life. This is where virtual games can be used for more than just having a good time.
Spy Inc makes you a 007
Is it a game or is it real?
As [...]

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N is for a social networking overview

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Laurika.

Social networking is clearly here to stay. Research suggests that 99 percent of 18 to 24 year olds, or generation Y consumers, have an active profile on at least one social network site. Techtarget defines social networking as the practice of expanding one’s business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.
They say that although [...]

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Naked brainstorms? Only at Huddle.

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

How does the Huddle team end up stark naked in a boardroom? Easily. We’d do anything for charity.

The Huddle photograph is one of 24 tasteful pictures of internet entrepreneurs published in the Nude London Tech calendar. Proceeds from the calendar go to Take Heart India, a youth-run charity focused on IT education [...]

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Huddle – the Internet Product of the Year

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Good news comes in twos, it seems. Huddle has just been named the Internet Product of the Year in the UK IT Industry Awards.
The UK IT Industry Awards are a new venture between the British Computer Society (BCS) and Computing, merging the BCS IT Industry Awards and the Computing Awards. Its goal is to create [...]

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Huddle is, again, the one to watch

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Exciting news, just in! Huddle has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark One Program. This unique invitation-only program, launched this week, is designed to accelerate the growth of high potential start-ups.
According to Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft, the idea behind BizSpark One is to cast a [...]

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Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Internet Will Look Like in 5 Years

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Ryan A.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a dramatically different internet in five years:  dominated by social networks, real-time user generated content, Chinese language, and super fast 100mb + bandwidth.   No doubt, all of these innovations will also change the way businesses, employees, and customers interact.

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Huddle Movember look-a-likes…

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by simon.

Remember, remember the month of Movember,
When dodgy tashes truly are hot,
It seems the trend at Huddle HQ,
Has really affected this lot….
11 days into the charity challenge and in many cases there isn’t a lot to report, however even the merest of hint of hair on the upper lip seems to have turned us all into [...]

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In the Huddle with HP

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Just last month we were all getting excited about Huddle’s new features and our expansion into the US. With today’s announcement about our collaboration with HP, I think it’s pretty clear – there’s no stopping Huddle now.
So what does this deal mean? Hewlett-Packard will include the Huddle collaboration application on commercial PCs, laptops and netbooks [...]

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Emerging Web Trends: Why Right Now is a Great Time to Start a New Web Business

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Ryan A.

The internet is facing another transformation, a transformation beyond web 2.0. For those not as familiar with recent web trends, Web 2.0 which lasted roughly from 2005-2008, saw the introduction of the Social Web. Whereas Web 1.0 was read only, Web 2.0 was read/write (anyone can be a publisher). The term “Web 2.0” [...]

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M is for Document Management Software

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Laurika.

David just checked into his hotel in New York. It’s late. He’s tired. But he still has a few changes to make to tomorrow’s PowerPoint presentation. He switches on his laptop and nothing happens. It’s dead. He digs through his bag for his USB stick and realises that he’d left it in his office machine.
Depending [...]

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