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Top Eleven for Android: Can the Most Popular Web Soccer Game Conquer the Mobile World from Serbia?
Serbian web game maker Nordeus has confirmed for Netocratic that they’ve launched their first mobile application: Top Eleven for Android. It’s the mobile version of Top Eleven, the most popular sports game not only on Facebook where they “killed” EA-s Fifa, but also on the web in general. While this is Nordeus’ first venture into the mobile gaming space, the “normal” Top Eleven is an advanced football management game that has over 1,000,000 daily active players.
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E-nnovation 2011: Latest Trends In E-commerce and Online Business from Poland
The annual conference dedicated to new trends in e-commerce and online business, E-nnovation, was held in Poznan, Poland on the 10th and 11th October, 2011. Gathering over 30 speakers and 700 participants, its primary focus was the online trade market in eastern and central parts of Europe. Despite the firm focus on e-commerce and online retail, a significant portion of the program was dedicated to startups and entrepreneurship with talks and advice from speakers such as Tara Hunt, Eric Ly, and Jeff Taylor.
Tara Hunt is the CEO of Buyosphere, but is more known by her work with Riya (now Like.com) and her book “The Whuffie Factor”. In a talk titled “10 Mistakes I Made, So That You Don’t Have To”, she went through a list of 10 common pitfalls in startups from her own experience. Focusing on the minimum viable product was the first and foremost issue, where she pointed out how MVPs allow easier iterating, easier testing of assumptions and minimize the time and energy needed to do so…
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Farmeron Gets an Investment From Dave McClure’s 500 Startups and Moves to Silicon Valley
Farmeron, a fresh internet startup from Osijek, Croatia just raised an investment and support from Dave McClure’s seed fund and startup aggregator 500 Startups. Matija Kopić, CEO of Farmeron confirmed, exclusively for Netocratic, that Farmeron team will move to Mountain View in Silicon Valley in the next ten days or so.
500 Startups is one of most powerful US startup accelelators run by Dave McClure, former CMO in PayPal. Altought Kopić couldn’t confirm how big the investment is, it is known that 500 Startups’ first rounds of investment start at 100 thousands dollars, and most of the time it’s somewhere around 400-700 thousands dollars or even a million.
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Crowdspottr for the iPhone and Android Reveals Awesome Events Your Friends Are Going To
Crowdspottr is a free mobile app for the iPhone and Android that discovers popular events based on the activity of your Facebook and Foursquare friends. When we talk about location networks, the first thing that comes to mind are Foursquare and Gowalla. For the last several months, Foursquare and its 10 million users left Gowalla in the thus and thus became the leading location sharing application.
Don’t you think it’s kind of funny (or should I say – silly) that all those location services can’t tell you when or what is happening based on your location? What use do you have from them if they can’t provide you with such information? Crowdspottr wants to change that, getting you more value from location social networks.
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Webit 2011 plans to get more than 5.000 Internet and IT professionals in Sofia, Bulgaria
Webit Congress 2011, a conference on digital and IT industry in central and eastern Europe will take place on October 26th-27th 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Many IT professionals are about to attend, including executives from eBay, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Advertising and more.
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Leo Laporte’s TWiT: How a True Geek is Creating the CNN of Technology News
You’ll hear him talk about tech in podcasts like This Week in Tech, Tech News Today, iPad Today, The Social Hour and All About Android. Leo Laporte is probably the most well-known podcaster and one of the most respectable tech pundits in the world. He founded TWiT.tv, his podcast (sorry Leo, netcast!) network in 2005. when starting the now well known This Week in Tech podcast that features panelists such as John C. Dvorak, LeWeb founder Loic LeMeur and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani as well as hosts such as Sarah Land and Tom Merrit.
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Socialbakers Allows You to Organize Your Facebook Page Tabs Using Engagement Builder
Socailbakers’ Engagement Builder, formerly known as Social CMS now allows you to manage not only your Facebook pages, but tabs within them as well.
Using Engagement Builder, as explained on their blog, you can set your home tab, change the order of the tabs or rename them. You can also install landing tabs, different kinds of competitions and much more that will make your Facebook page more attractive to your fanbase.
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Oust.me Will Connect Brands with Foursquare and Facebook Gamers through Location Layers
Oust.me, the Slovenian web startup that’s building a location-based game, has joined the ranks of the startup accelerator Seedcamp. Oust.me lets players conquer real territories in a virtual environment where you’re competing with your friends. I first wrote about Oust.me in April on Netokracija when they launched, when it looked like an interesting competitor to location-based games like Warsquare.
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Facebook Chat Gives Us Back Our Friends With “More online friends”
Only a month after introducing a new chat interface and concept, Facebook has apparently decided to once again add all your Facebook friends to the chat. The new Facebook chat interface is still accessible as a sidebar, however after the first 10 or so friends you’re most engaged with there’s a list of all your other Facebook friends that are logged into their chat.
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SugarCRM is Coming to Eastern Europe: New Languages Expected for Their Open Source CRM
Seems that Eastern European companies are finally discovering the true power of sales and using customer relationship software to increase them – or that’s at least what SugarCRM, one of the world’s leading CRM web application companies believes. SugarCRM will be in fact presenting today at Telfor 2011., a large telecomunication conference held each year in Belgrade, Serbia. It’s a first in a region used to being less than well connected to international technology companies that are quite influentieal such as Paypal or Google.
