Are you working with Metadata? Want to get a share of £5m for research and development? Then get yourself along to one of three events covering the Technology Strategy Board's (TSB) new £5m competition, Metadata: Increasing Value in Digital Content Collaborative R&D Competition.
The competition, launched on the 1st June, provides match-funding for projects which address three opportunities to build revenue streams with more efficient and innovative use of metadata.
It's been a particularly hectic month for zipping up and and down the country hosting the Partnering for Innovation events, promoting the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.
If you've missed out, the good news is that there's another chance to find out about this competition, the Digital Communications KTN are running a briefing in London on 5th July (info here).
Over the course of the events, there's been dozens of presentations, heaps of official-looking information, hundreds of conversations and, for me, a lot of learning in the way that groups can collaborate.
The recipe? A large public(ish) organisation (TfL) opens its data kimono to developers. Six days later, a group of geeks gather for a hack-day and a thing of beauty is born, the live tube map.
Have a look. It's rather addictive, like watching the download bar on a browser slowly creep across the screen (just me?). Congratulations to Matthew Somerville (@dracos) for hacking this together so quickly.
With all the coverage, hype and hyperbole, it's hard to believe it's been less than a month since the iPad hit UK stores.
Whilst the debate rages on whether the iPad is the saviour of the publishing business, a game-changer or merely an hors d'oeuvre until Android Pads arrive, they're flying off the shelves.
Want to get your mitts on your very own piece of shiny Apple bling? Visit the Online Marketing Show and give your digital knowledge a whirl in the Digital Genius Quiz sponsored by Propel London.
The quiz covers general knowledge of the digital space, and contains a series of challenging questions about the internet, web advertising, and new technology.
At midday today (1st June), we're delighted to welcome Alex Stanhope and Jeremy Silver from the Technology Strategy Board to Chinwag Towers for a live webinar.
They'll join me to chat about an exciting new R&D competition that focuses on metadata and how developers or rights holders can obtain grant funding to explore new business models and ways to increase revenues from their content.
UPDATE: Win £1,500 worth of shared office space rental.
Summer's here, although saying that alone has probably jinxed the bank holiday weekend to three days of drizzle.
For budding entrepreneurs, the weekend offers some time free of distractions to focus on developing their startups, which is why the London Startup Weekend, sounds intriguing.
The team at Startup Weekend have very kindly offered Chinwag readers a chance to win two tickets to the event (enter here), and if you can't wait there's also a special 25% discount (use code chinwag00).
As anyone whose tried knows, getting grant funding from the government can be an arduous task with forms that sap your will to live.
Fortunately, the process for securing a slice of the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries fund recently announced by the Technology Strategy Board is much less painful.
I caught up with Alex Stanhope, who is leading this project to get the background on the TSB's work and the Digital Testbeds that led to this £18m competition.
UPDATE: If you're not able to make it along, follow on Twitter 
