Daydreaming about a pancake feast with StartupCafe bloggers? Or you just enjoy winning? Good news! We’ve got 2 competitions still open this month. Stakes are high, as the prize is a delightful pancake breakfast (American or French, your choice) with all four of us.
Competition #1: What is the most ridiculous Twitter message you’ve seen?
Competition #2: How can StartupCafe be most useful to you?
To enter, email us at pancakes@startupcafe.co.uk with an answer to either question by 30th June. Winner announced early July and indulged at your convenience.
So, it’s the end of Day 1 at the first Scottish Social Innovation Camp. The idea is to take 6 back-of-the-envelope ideas, add lots of people, then try and make it happen over 48 hours. The point is to take ideas that could potentially create social change by connecting people through the web.
Every year in August, hundreds of thousands of people come to the city for a number of festivals. It is a known and predictable migration. Surely with this traffic, many short term opportunities arise. The question is whether it is possible to take advantge of these 4 weeks and run a profitable business?
The development of applications for mobile devices has been on the rise over the past few months in Edinburgh universities and Scotland in general. The main reason for that is the increase in the population of mobile devices: iPhone, Palm Pre, Nokia Exx & Nxx, BlackBerries, etc. At the moment, the two main platforms are 
Holocaust denial groups on Facebook have spurred some vicious debate lately, especially in light of the US Holocaust Museum 
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, Adrian (see photo) has agreed to be our willing victim.
This is a little off-topic, but we’re excited about the announcement of the next Twestival! In case you were wondering what this is – besides a hybrid of the words twitter and festival – in a nutshell, its an event organised on twitter, by twitter types, for charity: 
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