Inside peek at Green Festival Seattle 2009
[youtube]swMA993LX6s[/youtube] Here’s a short video that I took today at Green Festival Seattle. I was trying to pay attention to companies that I hadn’t seen at last year’s Green Festival. Here’s what caught my eye: Kashless.org – a local Seattle tech company that built a website or online market place where everything is free. I […]
Redmond Arbor Day Event: Tree Planting at Farrel-McWhirter Park
Celebrate Arbor Day with the City of Redmond Parks and Recreation Department. Participate in ceremonial tree plantings and also help plant young trees in the forested areas of Farrel-McWhirter Park. Please come prepared with work gloves; planting tools will be provided. Prizes and Arbor Day patches will be available. Wednesday, April 8, 4pm–6pm @ Farrel-McWhirter Park, Hutcheson […]
Redmond Earth Day Celebration
Redmond Earth Day Celebration: 9am to Noon | April 11, 2009 The Sammamish River Trail near Leary Way Bridge. Redmond celebrates Earth Day early to avoid a crowded calendar of events throughout the region later in the month. Come celebrate with us by planting native trees and shrubs near the Sammamish River. • We provide tools, […]
FastCompany.tv: Seattle green office space mashup hosts interesting startups
Robert Scoble from FastCompany toured our space and posted an article about us. Here’s what he said: “Want to work with a ton of cool startups like iPhone app developer Shazam? Well, then you’ll want to check out Thinkspace which is run by Peter Chee up in Redmond, WA. Right near Microsoft’s campus. Here Peter […]
Member Spotlight: Solar Casters
Steve Ihnen is founder of Solar Casters. Solar Casters is the weather forecaster for the solar industry. Steve’s company focuses on providing daily solar forecasts to utility companies. Solar Caster’s clients are worldwide where there are solar installations ranging from 45 kW to 350 mW. Steve’s weather forecasting software model takes into account 25 years […]
Robert Scoble tours thinkspace
The Scobleizer came into thinkspace today and interviewed me as I gave him a tour of the space. Robert tweeted us as the “coworking / office space mashup”. Robert also had time to interview green tech startup Newline Software, who is pioneering eco-digital preservation software. We stopped by to see Bart McCormick with Shazam, but unfortunately […]
Member Spotlight: Sysgain
Mike Brophy and Sarah Brophy are with Sysgain, a company that has offices in Redmond, Washington DC, and Las Vegas. Sysgain develops software for the iPhone, provides staffing services, consulting services, and process management. Mike and Sarah are the driving force behind the Sales, Strategy, and Marketing for Sysgain. Sysgain places engineers, project managers, designers, marketing […]
Apple iPhone is MIA from standardized phone charger list
The GSM trade association announced that it has come to terms with the world’s leading handset manufacturers to come up with a standard for charging cell phones! The initial group of companies include AT&T Inc., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile and Vodafone PLC. There’s only one company that is obviously […]
A "free" dashboard to track your business carbon footprint
According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft has announced that they are providing a free add-on to their ERP software (Microsoft Dynamics AX) that allows companies to track their carbon footprint. Basically, if you’re a company that can’t afford to hire an environmental consultant to help you come up with a plan on how to track […]
Member Spotlight: Newline Software
Kory Gill and Marius Nita (Newline Software), have been generating a buzz in the tech world as the media gets a peek at what these two Microsoft Veterans are up to. Eric Engleman, with the Puget Sound Business Journal interviewed Kory and Marius on January 26th. Here’s a link to that article. They were also […]