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Developers + Digital Marketers in Demand: Kiltr!

10 August, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

It’s an exciting time for Scottish startup Kiltr, a networking and social media site with a strong Scottish national flavour. We met with CEO Brian Hughes Halferty last year to hear about the company, and he seems like a really cool guy to work with. Having secured funding and launched the site in private beta, they are now ready to expand the Kiltr team! We’ve posted a number of opportunities for developers, and I’m happy to point out there’s a digital marketing position on offer as well as 2 roles for .NET gurus. So have a look and pass this on to anyone else that might be interested.

So, what does Kiltr do?
Professional Networking Platform +  social media website

Why are you guys awesome?
We are focused on developing great products and services  using the latest social networking technologies and at the same time building an innovative and fun company culture.

What position are you hiring for?

x2 .NET guys/Girls and x1 Digital marketing person (full or p/t) Continue Reading »

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Events Menu: 9th-15th August

9 August, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Tuesday 10th August: Dorkbot Alba, 8pm at Forest Cafe (3 Bristo Place)

**I’m excited to say Dorkbot Alba is now on our radar, and only sorry I didn’t know about it sooner. If you’re doing anything with electricity, or want to be, do check it out**

Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of “electronic art”. Here in Edinburgh we meet bi-monthly at the Forest Cafe, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 8pm onwards, upstairs in the Action Room. We hope to mix people with crazy ideas with people who can make them happen. Mostly we chit-chat, but things do happen, sometimes, and if you have an idea, or if you like making things, we’d like to hear from you. Continue Reading »

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival App from Loc8

7 August, 2010 by Kate Ho

In case you haven’t noticed, the Edinburgh Festival is truly upon us!

If you own an iPhone/iPad, you should have downloaded the Fringe Festival App written by Appleton Tower Level 6 residents, Loc8 Solutions. The app contains all the listings, a place to store your fav fringe shows and even though the screenshot doesn’t show it, the app also has a link to the offers from the Half Price Hut.

If you haven’t downloaded it, do it now!

Incidentally, if you’ve spotted any cool festival shows or been to any that you particularly recommend, feel free to comment below!

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Calling all Scottish startups for a London showcase

6 August, 2010 by Hilary Singer

Launch48!

Calling all Scottish startups: if you have a demo-ready product or service and want to tap into the money, experience and network in London, pack your bags and head to the Launch48 Showcase.

The event, on 2 September, is a new offering from the talented Launch48 team, who have organised a series of top-notch startup events in the U.K. and abroad. Startup Cafe reps attended one of their weekend events earlier this year and were blown away by the calibre of the attendees.

High-profile figures from PayPal, Yahoo, Seedcamp and Tech Crunch attended, not to mention VCs and Angel Investors. Other major sponsors include Amazon, Sun Microsystems and Vodaphone. The place was packed with experience, enthusiasm, expertise and money.

But that event was about building new companies. This one is about showcasing your own. And if there was one thing amiss about our previous experience at Launch48, it was the lack of Scottish tech and talent.

So seriously, pack your bags. It’s £10 to attend the Showcase, and free to exhibit–though you’ll have to apply for a space. Deadline 20 August.

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60 second interview: Jane-Ann Purdy (GeordieMac)

5 August, 2010 by Kate Ho

This week, our 60 second interview is with Jane-Ann Purdy from GeordieMac Electronic Publishing. Jane-Anne started her writing and editing career after finishing her degree in Film and Media studies back in 1989. Since then, she’s gone on to work for national newspapers and magazines before working for a number of corporate clients. Recently, she has started up GeordieMac – an electronic publishing house – which focuses on publishing interactive magazines. Jane-Ann has also been helping the startupcafe team putting our forthcoming newspaper together!

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Upper bounds: Guest post by Philip Roberts

4 August, 2010 by Guest Blogger

Infinity

This post is part of our “Crowdsourcing: Wisdom from the Community” feature which contains guest bloggers from the local Edinburgh startup community. This post is from Philip Roberts, developer at Float, an Edinburgh-based cashflow forecasting startup that we wrote about earlier this year.

One of my favourite lecturers from university was Dr Iain Lindsay, who taught 4th year Digital System Design.

Judged against most of the other lecturers, who droned along to a set of dry powerpoint slides, his teaching style must have seemed “eccentric” to most of his students. Instead of a projector he scrawled across the blackboard, full academic gown flowing behind him. Where others would stick to a script defined by their slides, Iain’s discussions would flow, and loop, and shoot off at seemingly irrelevant tangents, which later turned out to be deeply insightful.

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It’s National Inventors Month!

4 August, 2010 by Bela Hamid

August comes from the latin word Augustus which means great or very important. When used as an adjective it can mean ‘inspiring admiration’. And yet, the month of August has a terrible reputation…business is slow, work piles up on office desks and decisions get postponed as people take vacation. It can also be thought of as the deadliest month for hospital patients as it is when the annual intake of junior doctors arrives…remind me, how does August compare to other months in relation to death rates in hospitals?

American journalist David Plotz once wrote Continue Reading »

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Product review + discount: QRky Next-Gen Business Cards

2 August, 2010 by Hilary Singer

Last week, Birmingham startup QRky Ltd launched online sales of its new product: high-spec business cards featuring 2D barcodes.

Such barcodes, called QR codes, are not new. They’ve long been popular in Japan, where mobile phones are required to have QR readers. Earlier this year, at Austin’s SXSW, the codes were used extensively on conference materials including name badges and programmes . Closer to home, Edinburgh-based 2Dcode.me directs home-seekers directly to relevant online listings using QR codes on property signs.
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And it’s about time…Ollie Saunders

1 August, 2010 by Hilary Singer

Ollie Saunders

Ollie Saunders is a 24-year-old web software developer who recently moved to Edinburgh following stints in London and Toronto. We met Ollie at the inaugural Lean Startup Circle meeting. He had only been in Scotland for a matter of days, but already had a packed schedule of events to attend.

We know Edinburgh has a lot going on, but when you live here, it’s hard to get the big picture. How does the startup scene in Edinburgh compare to London or Toronto? We offered Ollie a public introduction to the city in exchange for his fresh take on Edinburgh. Continue Reading »

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Scooby-Doo takes a sales call

28 July, 2010 by Bela Hamid

Actually, he doesn’t because he’s a dog.   What I really want to say is this: the COURAGE of those who pick up incoming sales calls never fails to amuse me! 

Even the most spineless, lily-livered fool with Continue Reading »

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