Rummble: A Unique Play On A Location-Based Mobile Search Engine


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I’m surprised I haven’t heard of Rummble earlier, but thanks to a VentureBeat report about the Mobile 2.0 conference across in pond in Europe last week I have now.  Rummble is a location-based social networking startup based in the UK that functions as a clearinghouse for venue reviews, personalized recommendations, and can be used as a Twitter-like microblogging platform.  Ultimately, Rummble’s purpose is to turn all of this information into a mobile search engine that delivers results based on location and a “trust profile for you and the content in your social network“, rather than using the traditional keyword search method.

Definitely an interesting mix of services for one mobile-based product, Rummble is currently in limited open beta.  It works not only on any mobile device globally (for example, hooking into a GPS or cell id) but also on the web, and is featured on other social networks such as Facebook.  Looking to the future, Rummble is apparently looking for funding in order to better utilize the flat rate broadband market coming next year.

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  • I had never heard of Rummble either (which suprises me, as usually I am quite good) but I just came across this post and thought I would give it a go. I was really impressed with it.
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    Though Rummble is quite new for us but it seems to be a very innovative step in the domain of Information Technology.. I guess this beta version will definitely hit this Rummble towards the final release very soon as we are always looking for such things to increase our social networking..
  • This looks really cool... I have to play on it.
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