Moviepilot Labs hosted the apps.berlin.js meetup last week, and we have the photos to prove it! The turnout was awesome, with a full house at our HQ at Mehringdamm, Berlin. Moviepilot Labs’s own Mathias Schäfer (@molily) gave a talk… check it out!
Special thanks to @Hagenburger for photo contribution.
Moviepilot Labs is proud to announce that we now have Series B funding, thanks to our amazingly supportive investors! We are overjoyed that we will be able to continue to bring you the latest in upcoming films from rumor to red carpet, growing with even more exciting stuff in the pipeline.
Our sincerest thanks to everyone who has helped us to come this far, and will be along for the ride in our next stage of the journey.
Find out more about it here: Tech Crunch The Hollywood Reporter Gigaom TNW Venture Village YouTube
お握り(hiragana: おにぎり), onigiri [pronounced: oh-nee-gee-ree]
Some might say that Moviepilot Labs has a special affection of Japan… a couple of us have even lived (and loved) there, and speak the language. Others of us are simply manga and anime maniacs with Totoro and Jiji on our desks. But there are always our regular rounds of sushi or visits to some of Berlin’s best Japanese restaurants… we just can’t get enough!
With that in mind, Ben (@omdb) decided to grace our pre-May Day Monday with a treat of homemade rice balls (called onigiri). Onigiri are the go-to snack for schoolkids, office workers, picnickers and pretty much everyone else. More triangles than balls, and filled with everything from seaweed to salmon, they are little ricey packets of tasty goodness. And we had them right at our bar… two words: ‘yum’ and ‘moar’!
Check out more photos!
Special thanks to Ben, Natsuko and @leawillkuchen!
Last Friday, Formal Friday made a comeback after a couple weeks off…the first week back is always the hardest! Scotch makes it worthwhile.
Special thanks to @leawillkuchen
Moviepilot Labs is always looking to get in on the newest and most innovative of anything out there, and we’re proud to say that we’re one of the first to get on the bus with Somewhere!
Somewhere is a service that helps companies to find cultural fits, based on the idea that good cultural fits create successful teams and work environments. This philosophy really struck a chord with us here at Moviepilot Labs, since one of the most important aspects of why we are so passionate about our product is our across-the-board love of film. With culture being equally important to Somewhere, it seemed like a no-brainer to join their beta.
One of our most beloved traditions is to ask potential team members what their 3 favorite movies are, and that’s exactly the sort of approach that Somewhere takes when promoting their ‘always on’ approach to building talent networks.
Justin McMurray, Co-founder of Somewhere says:
Moviepilot is one of the most pioneering start-ups in Berlin so we’re delighted that they’re part of >Somewhere’s beta. They have a rich, fun, coffee-loving workplace so I’d definitely recommend movie->lovers apply to see if they’re a good fit.
Fun and coffee-loving? Check. Pioneering? We try. Movie-loving? That sounds exacatly right.
Check out Moviepilot on Somwhere
What Somewhere has to say about Moviepilot
Remember Chaplin? By releasing Chaplin, we aimed to provide a sample architecture for a complex application. We received a lot of feedback from the community. We would like to continue this work and discuss things with people who are building JavaScript-driven Web applications.
That’s why we’re announcing apps.berlin.js, …
apps.berlin.js is a spin-off of Berlin.JS (Berlin’s JavaScript user group) with a focus on client-side JavaScript applications (aka HTML apps).
Check out the release:
Dear JavaScript community,
We love Berlin.JS. The variety of the talks reflects the flexibility of the language. JavaScript is a broad subject, so we would like to dig deeper into a specific topic: client-side JavaScript applications.
There are plenty of frameworks which assist in building client-side JavaScript applications (“HTML5 apps”). But most of them lack best practices and case studies regarding large-scale applications. Especially, smaller libraries like Backbone.js are used for this purpose without providing a scalable structure on their own.
To discuss these problems, we’re announcing apps.berlin.js, the first meet-up on JavaScript Web apps in Berlin. It’s an official Berlin.JS spin-off. We kindly invite you to join us on Thursday, May 10th 2012 at the Moviepilot headquarters in Kreuzberg.
There will be a focus on Backbone.js and its ecosystem, but we’re open to discuss other libraries and topics as well. The first talk will be a short introduction to Chaplin and its ongoing development. Chaplin is a sample architecture for JS applications based on Backbone.
Further details and talks will be announced shortly on this mailing list and on @berlinjs, so please stay tuned. Until then we’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions. If you would like to give a talk or start a discussion, please let us know!
Regards Mathias Schäfer & the Chaplin team
For those of you who may not yet know about it, Berlin.JS is a monthly meet-up with talks on the JavaScript programming language in general. Check out Berlin.JS on Google groups and @berlinjs on Twitter.
Special thanks to @molily
Moviepilot Labs’ very own superhero, Oliver, here to save the day!
Captain Moviepilot (Taken with instagram)
Spring has sprung and it’s time for a bit of an image change…a bit of a brush up. We here at Moviepilot Labs is proud to announce that we have a whole new look that lets you discover upcoming movies in a whole new way…
Just click on Discover to browse upcoming movies by genre channels, complete with a timeline of films so you can browse through them and follow movies. Once you’re following a movie, you’ll get all the latest news on it right in your personal news stream, and never miss a thing!
For each movie, see the director, actors, production stage and other stats for the movies you want to follow, and keep track of their progress.
Got a genre channel or project you would like to see? Let us know at feedback@moviepilot.com!
