52 Books in a Year: Week 6
For week 6 of my yearlong reading project, I sped through The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. If you are anything like me (and intimidated by the sheer volume and language of such a book), stop right there. Just reading the introduction hooked me in to
thinkspace: An Innovation Hub for Economic Growth in Washington
The 41th Annual Economic Forecast report for 2013 was released in the Puget Sound Business Journal in the January 11-17th issue. In this report Cynthia Flash authored an article, "Local tech sector key to sustaining regional economic growth." Cynthia writes, " It's no secret that Washington's information technology industry is a major
Deep Domain – Saving Healthcare Software & Keeping Costs Low
Deep Domain, Inc. began in 2007, a small startup in Redmond, WA but the fifth business of Howard Mahran. Deep Domain is a software company with a focus in healthcare. They’ve set out to help hospitals and clinics easily get information out of their electronic medical records systems. With Deep Domain
Healthcare’s Gone Mobile with MobiSante – Smartphone Ultrasound Imaging
MobiSante CEO and Co-founder, Sailesh Chutani picked up a smartphone and told me it was an ultrasound machine and I could use it. I was beyond excited. Ultrasound technology has moved into our pockets and MobiSante made it happen. Amazing? Yes. But practical? You bet.MobiSante has honed in on how mobile
Useful Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs
Last weekend, we hosted a Mobile App Hackathon here at thinkspace in our coworking area. At the event, 13 teams developed a wide variety of mobile apps in less than one day. Since thinkspace is a community filled with entrepreneurs, I started thinking
Amazon Introduces Kindle Textbook Rentals for Students
This week, Amazon announced a new service designed specifically for students. Students now have the option to rent Kindle versions of their Textbooks. Amazon advertises potential student savings up to 80% on textbook titles rented to the Kindle e-reader. Amazon textbook rentals will also allow students to customize their rental period from
Mobile App Hackathon at thinkspace
On Saturday, July 16th we hosted the AT&T Developer Program’s Mobile App Hackathon! The event started first thing Saturday morning at 9am in our coworking space. Lightning talks from developer support reps started at 10am and by 11am the room was split into teams working away on different code ideas!
CAMBadge a Mobile App for Face-to-Face Networking
There's a new networking app called "CAMBadge". I saw this app at the AT&T Mobile Hackathon that we held here last weekend. The CAMbadge is the name badge that always has your information correct and can help you remember the people you meet at events. Just tap the screen and
Stay Focused at Work While Rocking Out on Turntable.fm
I enjoy listening to music while I work. However, I am sick of Pandora, and my iTunes library is embarrassingly out of date. Therefore, when someone told me about the New York based startup, Turntable.fm- my work music source changed for the better.Turntable.fm is a site where users can connect and share
5 Reasons to Attend a Hackathon
A hackathon is an event where developers meet to do collaborative computer programming. The term "hackathon" is a mashup of the programmer slang word hack, and a marathon (you know, that really long distance foot race- 26.2 miles to be precise). Some companies organize internal hackathons to develop new products and features