The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Super Bowl App Wins Big at Whale Tank 2013 Digital Tip Jar won more than once today at Whale Tank 2013 in New Orleans. Travis Laurendine from Codemkrs dubbed the startup [...]
BlackGirlsCODE wants to increase the number of girls of color in the digital space through exposure to computer science and technology programs. Workshops have been held in Detroit, New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles; future workshop locations include Atlanta, again, and Memphis. On Neighborland, twelve neighbors have signed on saying they want BlackGirlsCODE to hold workshops in New [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: The 2012 Silicon Bayou 100: Alphabetical For those of you who missed last week’s release party or the announcement we sent to our newsletter subscribers, here (in alphabetical order) are the top 100 [...]
Based on Candy Chang’s “I Wish This Was” project, Neighborland is an online community where people can share voices, gather support, and make things happen. The company was incubated in New Orleans, began slowly expanding and has announced it is now available everywhere in the United States. “When neighbors can collectively discuss issues, propose ideas, [...]
We all remember when Neighborland was introduced to New Orleanians, enabling community remembers to come together to create a better city with innovative ideas for changing all sorts of problems. Now, Propeller along with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) in partnership with Tulane are set to host PitchNOLA 2012: Lots of Progress. The application [...]
Neighborland’s “Ideas in Action” allows the ideas of fellow site users and innovators to see their ideas come to life one way or another. Open Transit Data was one of those ideas that is now becoming available to outside groups, the public, instead of just being shared with the transit agencies. Transport for NOLA partnered [...]
Neighborland and GOOD Ideas for Cities held a sold out event at the New Orleans Museum of Art on July 12th that featured the results of months long projects focused on four challenges facing the City of New Orleans: Non-automobile transportation. Affordable, accessible, and sustainable healthy food. Disrepair of street corners. Food truck politics and [...]
GOOD Ideas for Cities is taking the country by storm, with New Orleans as one of their stops. GOOD Ideas for New Orleans collected a number of problem solvers in the city to tackle some of the most difficult urban issues. The call for creatives– local designers, coders, artists, architects, filmmakers, writers and activists– back in May produced much interest [...]
Launch Pad Ignition is a 12-week mentor-driven accelerator program for startups in New Orleans. Launch Fest is where these companies debut after the weeks of hard work and hope to gain funding. This year, there were 15 founders and 37 mentors. The event received national coverage and was featured in TechCrunch, TechCocktail, NOLA.com, and the [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Launch Fest Turns National Tech Spotlight to New Orleans: The second class of Launch Pad Ignition is basking in press coverage from across the tech scene after pitching at Launch Fest. They received coverage [...]
