business
Feb. 20, 2013 9:00 am
Inbox Zero: use Mailstrom from Canton’s 410 Labs to clear out your e-mail clutter
Mailstrom, the e-mail organizing web app developed by Canton-based 410 Labs, has undergone several programming and design updates since Technically Baltimore first reported on the tool in July 2012. Using Mailstrom, Lifehacker’s Adam Dachis reduced the number of unread e-mails in his inbox from 1,000 “to about 50,” he said, in just about an hour’s [...]
business
Feb. 15, 2013 10:00 am
Dave Troy of 410 Labs: ‘We run the risk of creating the cult of the McStartup’
Cofounder of 410 Labs Dave Troy was among those in the Startup Maryland delegation that presented its case for governmental support of entrepreneurship in this state and the nation last week at the White House. His chief clarion call on Huffington Post is for entrepreneurs to pursue “original ideas”: Consumer-facing, peer-to-peer commerce start-ups are hot, [...]
![Capital Bikeshare: more than 32K trips in D.C. over 5-day period in October 2012 [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/02/Screen-shot-2013-02-06-at-11.47.10-AM-160x130.png)
creative
Feb. 7, 2013 8:30 am
Capital Bikeshare: more than 32K trips in D.C. over 5-day period in October 2012 [VIDEO]
Another visualization by Chris Whong animates more than 32,000 trips riders have taken using Washington, D.C.’s bikeshare program Capital Bikeshare. The animation shows data from trips over a five-day period last October. View Whong’s animation below.
![Dave Troy’s new interactive visualization of the Baltimore Tech Facebook group [MAP]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/01/Screen-shot-2013-01-07-at-1.51.52-PM-160x130.png)
uncategorized
Jan. 8, 2013 8:30 am
Dave Troy’s new interactive visualization of the Baltimore Tech Facebook group [MAP]
Dave Troy‘s previous visualizations have included filtered LinkedIn data to show the connections among Baltimore-area nonprofits and plotted city residents’ geocoded tweets. Now the co-founder of 410 Labs has constructed a new visualization that shows the individual networks of members of the quite-active Baltimore Tech Facebook group. With the help of Sigma.JS, Troy’s new map [...]
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Jan. 3, 2013 9:00 am
Jonathan Julian: how to get developers and designers to your hackathon
The scene inside the Walters Art Museum during this summer’s Art Bytes hackathon Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend Education. Groundwork. Art Bytes. Four major hackathons took place in Baltimore in 2012. But convincing developers to show up at local hackathons has been something of a challenge this year, as JavaScript and Ruby on Rails developer Jonathan Julian [...]
business
Dec. 26, 2012 10:30 am
Pretending Baltimore is a startup hotbed ‘isn’t going to make us magically awesome’
Talk of tech startup hubs often doesn’t include any mention of Baltimore, which seems to relish playing scrappy underdog to its bigger cousins, Washington, D.C., and New York City. There’s some reason for this. Ask someone about major “wins” inside this city’s startup ecosystem, and they may cite AOL’s acquiring Advertising.com and Millennial Media’s IPO [...]
Nov. 2, 2012 9:03 am
SocialToaster, Sickweather present at Oct. Baltimore TechBreakfast
Sam Eshleman presenting his Mechation Studio digital instructions-animation product. IKEA, you had better well be paying attention. Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, October’s Baltimore TechBreakfast happened Nov. 1, a last-minute change that perhaps cut into the attendance for the monthly startup showcase. Still, a sizable crowd trickled into the DLA Piper building in Mt. Washington for [...]
Oct. 16, 2012 9:30 am
Sickweather, 410 Labs at Distilled Intelligence 2.0 pitch competition in D.C.
Sickweather co-founders James Sajor, Michael Belt and Graham Dodge. Sixty seconds. That’s all the time Graham Dodge had in round one to impress a panel of judges with Sickweather, the illness-mapping startup he co-founded. Sickweather was just one of a handful of Baltimore-based startups that competed in the Distilled Intelligence 2.0 pitch competition in Washington, D.C., last [...]
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Oct. 15, 2012 10:00 am
Dave Troy, co-founder of 410 Labs, given Circle of Excellence Award by SmartCEO magazine
Dave Troy, CEO of Mailstrom-makers 410 Labs, was given a Circle of Excellence Award in the serial entrepreneurship category by SmartCEO magazine on Oct. 11. Also nominated in the serial entrepreneurship category was Ron Schmelzer, TechBreakfast organizer and CEO of Bizelo, a company that makes apps for small businesses.
uncategorized
Oct. 10, 2012 10:30 am
Baltimore startups compete for $100K at Distilled Intelligence 2.0 in Washington, D.C.
A handful of Baltimore-area startups will try to walk away with $100,000 in funding by the time Distilled Intelligence 2.0 concludes this Friday in Washington, D.C. The event, which boasts “angel investors, venture capitalists, strategic investors, entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, government officials, members of the media, students, professors” and startups as its attendees, is [...]