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Welcome back to StartupDigest Design, the members-only guide to becoming a better designer every week.You may believe you’re well informed on design, but if you don’t read this week’s article you may be missing out on one of the most powerful communication and design techniques that you can use.- Jeremy

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Zack Sears – Designer, Kickstarter

 

 

Resource of the Week

Design With Dissonance
by Tad Fry, Smashing Magazine

Dissonance challenges your beliefs and makes you feel uncomfortable. When effectively used in design and writing, this technique can be a powerful way to help persuade people to take an action.

 

 

Past Resources

What Made Steve Jobs so Great
By Cliff Kuang, Co.Design

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability
By Jacob Gube

 

24 Excellent Examples of Responsive Web Design
By Gisele Muller

 

Elements of a Viral Start Page
By Simon Schmid

 

 

Below is an archived version of the Vienna StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Vienna. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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What’s Going on in the Vienna Startup Community

twenty.twenty: The City – Networking with Things (Community)
When: Wednesday, October 19 – 18:30
Where: HUB Vienna, Lindengasse 56 Top 18-19

Reporters and media discuss and explore the future of networked technology and the future implications for humanity.

 

The regular gathering of entrepreneurs, founders, startups and investors gather to chat and drink, sharing battle stories, advice and contacts.

 

FROG11, part of the annual GAME CITY Conference will explore the phenomena of applied playfulness, media competence, media convergence, the sociability of play and the impacts of games on the future of our culture.

 

The annual GAME CITY conference, where the latest and greatest in PC and console gaming is presented to players from around Austria. Free entry!

 

Vienna’s community-organized TEDx rolls back through town, bringing together academics, marketers and free-thinkers discussing the intersection of technology and humanity.

 

Below is an archived version of the Scotland StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Scotland. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Hello, Scottish Startups!This is my first StartupDigest for Scotland having taken over from Chris McCann. Like my predecessor, I hope to use the Digest to not only highlight upcoming events but to also  share with you some of the great strides startups in Scotland are making.

This week I’d like to bring FlockEdu to your attention, an innovative crowdsourced startup  in the education space. Founder and CEO Morna Simpson, crowdsourced the talent to build and launch the FlockEdu service during 3 “sweatshop” weekends over the summer.  As part of the rollout of FlockEdu, Morna has organised events in Glasgow (detailed  below), Edinburgh and Aberdeen to share her experiences of building FlockEdu in such a  unique way and to introduce people to the service.

I would also like to thank everyone for their help informing me of upcoming events. The StartupDigest is an excellent service for Scotland, and with your help, it will only get better.

Michael

Scotland StartupDigest is curated by:
Michael Hayes is currently prototyping startup ideas and blogging about the Scottish startup scene at RookieOven.

 

What’s Going on in the Scotland Startup Community

Edinburgh OpenCoffee Club

When: October 19, 10,00am

Where: Roof Garden, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh

Hosted by the School of Informatics in Edinburgh, the coffee club provides an  informal meeting place for investors and entrepreneurs.

Scottish Ruby User Group

When: October 20, 7.30pm

Where: FreeAgent Central Office, 40 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh

Ruby is very a popular choice of language for startups and this event involves presentations and chat about Ruby and Ruby Related news.

Edinburgh Coffee Morning

When: October 21, 8.00am

Where: Centotre, 103 George Street, Edinburgh

The early bird catches the worm. So get up early and along to Centotre to meet a talented bunch of skilled individuals and see what people have been up to that week, share ideas and make new contacts.

FlockEdu the Educational Network for Adult Learners

When: October 21, 2011 6.30pm

Where: Landsdowne Bar, 7a Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow

Learn about FlockEdu, a uniquely crowdsourced service that aims to provide  an alternative, affordable and accessible route into education for adults.

Below is an archived version of the Portland StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Portland. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Good Morning, Portland! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Looks like Portland Startup Weekend was a great success. Hope you had a chance to attend. Here are the startup-related events we have coming up this week. Enjoy.
-Erik
 
Portland StartupDigest is curated by:
Erik Howard – Founder, ServerHive 
 
Portland StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
One day left for U.S. college graduates with innovative business ideas to apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. You’ll learn and network with an international group of aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Portland Startup Community

Great workshop on how to navigate the startup “tax maze”.

 

Come celebrate recent Portland startup success, innovatitve initiatives and the opportunity to network with entrepreneurs and mentors.

 

Practice your startup pitch in front of people who’ve done it before.

 

Below is an archived version of the Pittsburgh StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Pittsburgh. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Good morning, Pittsburgh Startups!We are back after a short break. This is a great week for Startup Events. We have several events that will bring developers, hackers and the overall startup community together. Enjoy!

Pittsburgh StartupDigest is curated by:
Abhishek Sharma – Founder, MobileFusion

 

 

Pittsburgh StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
One day left for U.S. college graduates with innovative business ideas to apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. You’ll learn and network with an international group of aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Pittsburgh Startup Community

Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group Meeting
When: Tuesday, October 18, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: 2949 Smallman St Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Monthly group meeting.

 

Monthly members meeting.

 

Members meeting for Cocoa developers.

 

 

Below is an archived version of the Helsinki StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Helsinki. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Good morning, world! To begin the week, we hope you take a few moments to explore the Slush Helsinki website. Slush is a two-day expo and startup conference that will teach you all the essentials you need to know about our budding startup ecosystem here.

Speaking of ecosystems, ours has also been a hot topic worldwide; here’s The Wall Street Journal talking about the Finnish Innovation System.

Lastly, in a shameless bid of neighbouring country rivalry, I’m happy to tell that the recent Rails Girls Singapore workshopwas met with more enthusiasm than the launch of H&M into Singapore, woohoo!Have a good week!

Charlotta

Helsinki StartupDigest is curated by:
Charlotta Liukas - student and an irreplaceable part of the Aaltoes crew
Mike Bradshaw – a European who is living in Finland and occasionally making technology “do stuff”(TM)

 

 

What’s Going on in the Helsinki Startup Community

Open Huddle at Nolla
When: October 19, 18:00 onwards
Where: Bar & Bistro Nolla (Pohjoinen Rautatienkatu 21, Helsinki)

Aaltoes’ hosts a weekly open meeting for people interested in getting into the Helsinki startups community.

 

Be a Social Change and pitch your idea for a better future.

 

This year’s Alternative Party theme is Soviet IT.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

26 October - Startup Sisters
2-3 November - Slush
4 November – SyysGraph
5 November - Joomla! Day Finland
10 November - Money Talks Mobility
24 November - IxDA Helsinki @ Activeark

 

Below is an archived version of the Barcelona StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Barcelona. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Barcelona StartupDigest is curated by:
Andrew Swiler – Working for startups in Barcelona doing strategy and business development over the past year. Andrew has a degree in Finance from Miami University, a love for technology, and the goal to meet every startup in Barcelona.
Eoin Gallagher - Business Development at fastDove, Co-Founder of 3DS Barcelona

 

 

What’s Going on in the Barcelona Startup Community

The city famous for its design is having a full week dedicated to design activities.

 

A week long conference in Barcelona for the open source search community; there should be some amazing education involved.

 

Our favorite weekly hacker gathering.

 

An informal get together for entrepreneurs to practice English, and make connections.

 

An interesting event going on this week to find ways for China and Barcelona to collaborate.

 

An event hosted by 22@ about smart buildings and innovating the architecture of Barcelona.

 

An informal networking event to meet members of the business community in Barcelona and around Europe.

 

Below is an archived version of the Chicago StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Chicago. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Chicago StartupDigest is curated by:
Bernhard Kappe - Founder of Pathfinder Software

 

 

Chicago StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
One day left for U.S. college graduates with innovative business ideas to apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. You’ll learn and network with an international group of aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Chicago Startup Community

The Accounting clinic will start with a few accounting principles as a groundwork, and expand into larger issues of accounting. With a wide range of possible topics, we plan to tailor this session to the needs of those attending.

 

This event will be a joint meeting of the Open Government Chicago and Hacks/Hackers Chicago meetup groups. Joe Germuska (Chicago Tribune News Applications) will present public data services and APIs created by the News Apps team, President of Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) Virginia Carlson will give a brief update on the Apps For Metro Chicago community round results, and Dan Sinker will review the recent Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership Hacktoberfest.

 

You can’t hide the fact that more organizations are turning to cloud-based hosting of data, so MIT Enterprise Forum has put together a panel of local experts to answer relevant questions.

 

Dan Bernstein (Personal Caregiver) and Moses Hohman (Human Practice) will present highlights of the national 2011 Health 2.0 conference (San Francisco). MCIC president Virginia Carlson, PhD will discuss Chicago Health Atlas, a partnership with the CHITREC and the Chicago Dept of Pub Health (CDPH).

 

Let’s get some practice with regular expressions. Some people find them intimidating but they’re wonderful once you get used to them. We’ll try some simple regular expressions like this /[0-9]{5}(-[0-9]{4})?/ and some more complex ones, too.

 

If you get excited about continuous delivery, the prospect of automating damn near everything, and creating a brilliant software production system – then Camp DevOps is where you come to open your mind to these possibilities.

 

 

Top Upcoming Chicago Startup Events

October 25 – Technori Pitch
October 27 – Chicago Lean Startup Circle 
December 15 - Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Finals

 

Below is an archived version of the Hong Kong StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Hong Kong. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Hong Kong StartupDigest is curated by:
Vincent Chan – Co-founder of Primitus

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

October 19-21 - AsiaD: All Things Digital
October 22 - Startup Saturday 2011
October 24 - Make a Difference Meet-up: Three Faces of Entrepreneurship
October 24 - Beyond Entrepreneurship Forum
November 8 - Startup 103: Enterproid, iDonate, Barcamp and Beijing Trip Sharing