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• It's good to see more smart entrepreneurs like Robin Blandford wanting to get involved in social innovation initiatives and noticing the generation of 115 amazing ideas during a similar event in the UK last week.
• Thanks to Will Knott for pointing me to Young Social Innovators - "changing the world for good"
• The Small Business Game is an online educational game where players run their own football retail store. Supported by the County and City Enterprise Boards, Ulster Bank and Microsoft.
• RTE picked up on Schoolbots which is a computer games programming comptetition for transition year students.
• 'Greennav' Patrick Liddy is off to Cape Town to participate in the Niall Mellon Township Trust Builders Week 2008 and will be blogging all the way.
• Contrast have added slick new features to TaskFive - "the todo list with a twist!"
• Joe Drumgoole is George Hook's right hand man on the technology slot but really should have his own show. As Sean O'Sullivan says, "Joe is made for Tech Radio. The Voice. The humour. The attitude The Knowledge". This episode(mp3) about LouderVoice and Sat4Free is a good example. Start with a podcast Joe.
• dbTwang, a Kilkenny based startup targetting guitar collectors, got some great exposure on Thomas Crampton's blog, where Fintan Blake Kelly was given 4 full minutes to explain what it's all about -

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[Joe Drumgoole]

Hmm, podcasts, interesting, myself and Niall Larkin talked about this before, perhaps we should kick it off...