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Rockstar North are hiring – break into gaming

Posted in Local News on 7 September, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Hot on the heels of last month’s devastating news about the collapse of Real Time Worlds is this cheery update from fellow Scottish gaming company Rockstar North: “we’re hiring!” Rockstar North, who are based in Edinburgh, posted an advert on the University of Edinburgh’s job forums earlier today, and also have a long list of [...]

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Catchup chat with TenBu, ProInnovate, Peekabu and Bloop

Posted in Local News, tagged , , , , , on 4 September, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On Thursday, half of the Startup Cafe team were en route to London to attend the Launch 48 showcase. Jess, Hilary and I were heading down to do general networking with the London startup crowd. Joining us were Sam Collins from Bloop; Stuart Roebuck from ProInnovate and Alex Cole from Peekabu. I thought that since we were [...]

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FREE film making workshop in Edinburgh on 3rd Sept (this Friday!)

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 1 September, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

What are you doing this Friday?  You could attend a free film-making workshop in Edinburgh.  Here’s a link to the agenda  – it’ll take you to an eventbrite page where you can also register to attend the workshop.  When: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM Where: Mercure Edinburgh Point Hotel, 34 Bread [...]

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University of Edinburgh spinout knockout

Posted in Local News on 1 September, 2010 | 2 Comments »

This week, entrepreneurship in Edinburgh received a substantial media lift as five major news organisations reported on the University of Edinburgh’s record number of spinout companies. The thrust of the story: 40 new companies were formed by staff and students at the University of Edinburgh last year, including a whopping 19 student startups. That’s a [...]

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Student Designers – An upcoming startup

Posted in Local News on 27 August, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Does your organisation need new branding or logo design? Student Designers allows you to set up competitions that use crowd-sourcing: design and art students compete to fulfil your businesses design requirements. Student Designers also enables students to develop their business acumen—an area not usually covered by design courses. Students greatly underestimate the value of their [...]

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An Indie Games Workshop in Dundee – 31st of August

Posted in Local News on 26 August, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Indie and other casual games have gained momentum in the last few years, with a number of super-hits: the world of goo, plants vs zombies, etc. Dundee has long been famous for training the gaming industry entrants. On the 31st of August, there’s a workshop anyone can attend. Details after the break.

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Edinburgh Night Owls?

Posted in Local News, tagged , on 25 August, 2010 | 11 Comments »

A few days ago, I got an email from Nicola and Hasan (from Vidiowiki) about their current trip over in New York. One of the coolest things they mentioned about the NYC Techscene is the NY Night Owls – co-located late night working. Its a little like The Royal Society of Hackers, but late and [...]

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Interface3 Wins SMART Competition – and a Table!

Posted in Local News, tagged , , , , , on 24 August, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Congratulations to our own Kate Ho of Interface3 for winning 1st place in the SMART Multitouch Application Contest. Kate’s submission of a new musical game Chromabeats was declared the winner this evening in the global competition. The challenge was to design and build a multi-touch application for the child education market, which turned out to [...]

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Going Camping: BarCamp, FilmCamp, ScotGovCamp

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 22 August, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Camping seems to be the latest rage at the moment. Of course, we’re not talking about outdoor camping (it might be a little cold for that … even during the summer) but the user-generated unconferences. Barcamps, if you’re not familiar with the concept, are conferences without a pre-planned agenda and relies on the participants to [...]

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A new look for Startup Cafe

Posted in Local News on 21 August, 2010 | 10 Comments »

We’ve recently been considering a logo revitalisation project. We’re testing the new look on our Twitter page now, but here’s a quick look at the new designs:

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