e-products, a software development company in Edinburgh, has a job opportunity for a passionate programmer looking to gain more experience and skills.
“I’m looking for a graduate or junior programmer to work on a migration project for a large client in the insurance industry. There are over 100 screens written in an old Intranet technology and they need to be ported across to our new xaf platform. Continue Reading »
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Tweetabits, a web-based twitter search interface which allows you to tag and analyse tweets according to a narrow search criteria, got TechCrunched on Friday.
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For this week’s roundtable discussion, we have chosen to answer – when is it appropriate or inappropriate to pitch your business?
Are there hard and fast rules to apply when it comes to pitching/selling? When is it acceptable to talk about your company and when is it not?
Bela: Please don’t pitch to me in lieu of actual conversation! I attend lots of talks and events, and yes they do provide opportunities to network but that doesn’t mean it is appropriate to ‘work the room’ by trying to sell. Continue Reading »
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At the end of May, Microsoft unveiled its search engine, Bing. Then last week Google announced that it would launch an operating system for laptops in the second half of 2010 with the first version to be targeted at netbooks. Microsoft have since retaliated with their recent announcement – the launch of a free, web-based version of MS Office 2010 which will include lighter versions of Word, Powerpoint and Excel. While this could Continue Reading »
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Our first guest blogger is StartupCafe regular commenter – Mark Sutherland! Mark is a member of Technical Staff at Cadence Design Systems (this apparently means he writes software for electrical engineers) and previously played Bass Guitar in a band called “Hard Spank”…
A ritual part of Edinburgh’s monthly Tech Meetup is the introductions, where everyone takes a turn to say who they are and what they do. This often feels more like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, so this month I introduced myself as follows: Continue Reading »
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Each week, we’ll be interviewing a member of the Startup community to find out about their deepest, darkest secrets! We’ll be profiling developers, as well as CEOs – so no one is safe! This week, Hamish (see photo) has agreed to be our willing victim.
We met Hamish back in the old iCUE days when he was Managing Director (ah, back when the economy was still booming). He is the MD of Robertson Technologies, which was setup during his final year at Edinburgh University, specialising in online data backup , but soon expanded to computer support. Robertson Tech has Continue Reading »
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After intensive debate and a rigorous selection process, we are very excited to announce the winners of our first two competitions held last month.
Winning answer for Competition #1 (What is the most ridiculous Twitter message you’ve seen?)
Award goes to Rachel Willmer, who shared an impressive bum Tweeting tale: Continue Reading »
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This year’s Royal Highland Show – an annual four-day event where farmers exhibit their livestock and food manufacturers sell their delightful products – was held at Ingliston, near Edinburgh Airport. I was there on the third day (Saturday), when the weather was warm and muggy, and it looked like a roaring success judging by the number of Continue Reading »
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This past week, Twitter and Facebook went crazy over Michael Jackson’s death. Of course, we’re not the only ones that noticed – apparently so did the Telegraph, Bloomberg, TechRadar and even the Mirror. We’re constantly being told that social media will replace traditional media as the channel for hearing about news. Considering MJ’s demise was huge news around the world, how did our four bloggers hear about it?
Kate: Contrary to social media predictions, I heard about Michael Jackson’s illness whilst watching Newsnight – and tweeted about it. After that, I did a twitter search on Michael Jackson, and there was easily 1000+ tweets per Continue Reading »
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