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Events Menu: 6th – 12th Sept

6 September, 2010 by Kate Ho

Jess is away to Copenhagen for a few days, so I’m here to serve up your events menu this week. This is week really busy, seeing MoMo, Launch Lab, REE Fest and Barcamp all happening at once!

Mobile Monday, Monday 6th Sept, 12.30pm at Centotre

One topic in mobile that has regularly been mentioned at previous events, but without anyone having a massively strong grasp of the details is Near Field Communications or NFCs. This seems to be an area that is starting to come to life. As a result, this month’s MoMo is about NFCs. Continue Reading »

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Catchup chat with TenBu, ProInnovate, Peekabu and Bloop

4 September, 2010 by Kate Ho

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 in the same place, it would be a perfect time for an update on how the companies are doing …

Jess Williamson (TenBu Technologies):. “We’ve launched a new generation of the product and have secured distribution partners in 8 countries. We’re also working hard in getting into the U.S. Our new product got write-ups in Engadget and Gadling last week which was really exciting! Also, we got asked for a nio to guard the enigma machine, so hopefully we can keep Britain’s secret safe in the 21st Century!”

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

1 September, 2010 by Bela Hamid

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 Street, EH3 9AF, Edinburgh

The workshop is hosted by Crossover: “an international programme designed to explore the creative and the commercial challenges of developing content and services for digital media”. Continue Reading »

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University of Edinburgh spinout knockout

1 September, 2010 by Hilary Singer

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 personal best for Edinburgh, and more than any other Scottish university has achieved in the past.

The coverage came last week, with the Scotsman, the Times, the Financial Times, the Observer and the Times Higher Education all carrying the story.

This quick list highlights the diversity of companies in this year’s crop: Continue Reading »

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Get over social media

30 August, 2010 by Guest Blogger

Our guest blog post today comes from Rachel Lane – currently a digital planner at Blonde. Rachel and I were talking about the challenges of managing Twitter, Blogging and general social media in a personal and business capacity whilst catching up last week. Comments below please!

Perhaps it has been the level of tactical detail bolted to social strategy commissions; perhaps it’s the vacuous social networking research which gets crowd-surfed around Twitter or perhaps it’s the pressure to maintain numerous social profiles, but I am so over social media.

It’s frustrating that a territory so fundamentally about people and human behaviours gets shrink-wrapped as a web technology. We haven’t changed how we communicate; we’ve just got more flexibility in communication channels. The flow of words may increase or decrease depending whether they travel by landline, mobile, call, text, instant message, tweet, Facebook message, email, letter … but the dialogue structure is pretty consistent.

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Student Designers – An upcoming startup

27 August, 2010 by Thomas Drapier

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 time and skills, and struggle with the balance between perfection and on-time delivery. Student Designers’ aim is to make students more employable and to develop the skills they need to set up their own business; an option appealing to more and more graduates in this economy. Continue Reading »

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An Indie Games Workshop in Dundee – 31st of August

26 August, 2010 by Thomas Drapier

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?

25 August, 2010 by Kate Ho

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 not on a Saturday.

So if anyone is interested in some co-located late working goodness, add your name here and I’ll add you onto some pseudo list so that I can tell you when we’ll be starting (once the festival is over).

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Interface3 Wins SMART Competition – and a Table!

24 August, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

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 be a very involved task. Bringing onboard a few interns to help in the early stages, Kate started by speaking with school teachers to identify unmet needs that a multitouch app might be able to address.

I nosily watched the application take shape, and Kate walked (or rather, flew) the team through the stages of rapid prototyping. Apparently it worked! Continue Reading »

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Edinburgh College of Art: Postgrad Degree Show

23 August, 2010 by Kate Ho

This evening, I had the pleasure of getting an invite along to the Edinburgh College of Art postgraduate degree show. Normally, this wouldn’t be something that I would cover, but graduate shows can be places to find young designers to work with.

There were some really neat pieces and here are the designers on exhibit: Continue Reading »

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