Jan. 31, 2013 8:30 am
Escape! From Detention: Mindgrub and Howard County Library students collaborate on new mobile game
Mindgrub creative lead Alex Hachey at the Baltimore Mobile Meetup. Mindgrub Technologies, the Catonsville-based innovation agency that started a new gaming division this year, has released its latest game. Escape from Detention is a collaboration with students participating with the Howard County Library’s HiTech, the library’s new STEM digital media lab, who helped with the game’s design [...]
Dec. 21, 2012 8:30 am
Local photogs drop Instagram // Best open data release of 2012 // Mindgrub’s Catapult giving site makes Bill Gates’ list [Links]
Baltimore photographers drop Instagram amid concerns that photos could appear in ads [Baltimore Sun]: “The changes go into effect in mid-January, the most contentious point being Instagram’s ability to sell users’ photos without informing or paying them. But local freelance photographer J.M. Giordano wasn’t taking any chances. He canceled his account and moved over to [...]
Dec. 11, 2012 10:30 am
SoMariCon Baltimore gaming convention needs $6K: Kickstarter of the Week [VIDEO]
Kickstarter of the Week is a new regular series highlighting the technology, creative and innovation Kickstarter campaigns in Baltimore that might be worth your support. See others here. The Baltimore region does more than crabs and football. (And, by football, we mean losing two straight overtime games in a row.) A vibrant video game development industry exists in [...]
Nov. 30, 2012 9:45 am
Mindgrub Technologies launches Mindgrub Games, website showcasing its smart phone games
In August, CEO of Mindgrub Technologies Todd Marks formed the mobile product and web development agency’s mobile gaming division. “I keep my focus on paradigm shifts,” the 36-year-old Marks told Technically Baltimore in September. “I did the math and thought mobile games is going to be pretty hot.” Now Mindgrub’s mobile games and its mobile [...]
Nov. 28, 2012 8:30 am
Brian Gaines new CEO of MdBio Foundation // AccelerateBaltimore deadline Nov. 30 // BEARTek Bluetooth gloves for $150/pair [Startup Roundup]
This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. The Baltimore Sun takes a look at Point.Click.Switch, the Harbor East-based startup that enables homeowners and commercial companies to switch energy suppliers and save money on monthly utility bills in the process. According to the [...]
Oct. 30, 2012 10:30 am
Embrace art and design to build better communities: Shervonne Cherry’s ‘One Big Idea for Baltimore’ [VIDEO]
This is Technically Baltimore’s weekly One Big Idea. We’d like to use this space to allow technologists, community organizers, activists and other thought leaders in Baltimore city propose one idea for making this city a better place to live and work. Shervonne Cherry, creative and social strategy lead at Mindgrub Technologies, delivers this week’s One Big Idea: embrace [...]
Oct. 3, 2012 8:30 am
Vince Talbert at Oct. Startup Grind // TowsonGlobal Incubator to double in size // Founder Susan Magsamen talks Curiosityville [Startup Roundup]
This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. Startup Grind returns for its second installment on Oct. 30 at Loyola University Maryland. Tickets are on sale now. October’s interviewee is Vince Talbert, the co-founder of BillMeLater, which was acquired by eBay in 2008. Talbert now works [...]
Sep. 19, 2012 8:30 am
Mailstrom updates its user interface // Mindgrub now a Nook developer // MD biotech center looking biotech development award applicants [Startup Roundup]
This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. Check out Given.to, an in-progress project billed as a ‘Kickstarter for gifts’ from the NoBadGift.com team, as tweeted by McKeever Conwell. Dave Troy’s 410 Labs keeps improving their inbox-zero creation Mailstrom. According to an [...]
Sep. 18, 2012 8:30 am
Tickets now available for Ignite Baltimore 11, October 18 at MICA’s Brown Center
Tickets to the eleventh installment of Ignite Baltimore are now on sale. Purchase tickets to Ignite Baltimore 11, taking place Oct. 18 at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Sep. 17, 2012 10:45 am
Mindgrub Technologies turns attention to mobile, augmented reality gaming with new division
In 2008, mobile product and web development agency Mindgrub Technologies was still a five-person company crammed into the basement of CEO Todd Marks’ house. Four years later, the company was 50-people strong, moved into a 6,000-square-foot former bank building in Catonsville, and filled out with design, user experience and testing divisions. Just last month, Marks [...]