Storebeez is

a virtual mall focused on helping small businesses and artisans take their offline business online

It’s been put together by a team at the Oxygen Accelerator tech startup programme at Birmingham Science Park.

It’s just gone live, giving people the option to set up their own online shops. I know there are a few big plans in the works and this is just stage one but, for starters, the option for shoppers to search across all stores (which I always thought was strangely absent from the likes of Big Cartel and Shopify) is there.

If you’re after an online shop then you might want to give this one a look. It’s free to set up a store, instead there’s a 10% transaction cost on sales. Because the team’s local they’re probably very receptive to feedback for improving the service too.

Whack-a-Cake is a game that was built by:

volunteers from the UK tech community as part of the “Children in Need Tech Challenge” hosted at The Oxygen Accelerator in Birmingham.

600 schoolchildren in the Birmingham area were asked to come up with a game idea and the characters that they saw being part of it. The best entries were shortlisted and asked to come to Oxygen and face a “Dragons Den” panel of game developers, designers and local businessmen

It was built in a 48-hour flurry over the weekend. Here’s the full list of people who made it happen.