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With Nannagram, Fresk Interactive aims to keep grandma’s photos fresh
Stefan and Thomas Hansen can check grandma’s gift off their holiday shopping list. The brothers, who together make up Des Moines-based Fresk Interactive, took care of that with the launch of Nannagram, a digital “picture frame” application. With Nannagram, users can push photos via email and Facebook (and soon SMS) to a viewing device like…
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Prairie Moves: Sojern, Annie Sorensen, Wade Arnold and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Thinc Iowa installment offers chance for Fresk to flex Kinect muscle
When Stefan Hansen and his brother Thomas were asked to create an interactive display for last month’s Thinc Iowa conference, the brothers didn’t just — ahem — thinc about it; they let their imaginations run wild. Stefan, 26 and Thomas, 28, who together form Fresk Interactive, used the conference as a welcome opportunity to tinker…
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PrairieCast with Andy Stoll & Stefan Hansen (Video)
This past Tuesday, PrairieCast hosts Geoff Wood and Andy Brudtkuhl were joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods, and Stefan Hansen of Fresk Interactive who recently debuted the BeerGenius interactive display at El Bait Shop.…
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PrairieCast Live Stream: 1:30 pm. with Andy Stoll & Stefan Hansen
Tune in today 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 27 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods and Stefan Hansen of Fresk Interactive who recently…
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PrairieCast: 1:30 pm Tues. with Andy Stoll & Stefan Hansen
Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1st at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 27 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods and Stefan Hansen of…
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Beer me! Fresk’s Stefan Hansen tells the story behind BeerGenius (Video)
El Bait Shop, a popular downtown Des Moines establishment boasting “the biggest selection of American microbrews in the world” is now home to BeerGenius, the latest project from Fresk Interactive. Launched last Thursday, February 17th, in front of a large crowd of homebrew enthusiasts, BeerGenius is an “interactive product browser” designed to help customers pick…
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European natives found interactive media startup Fresk Interactive
One of the latest interactive media startups to launch on the Silicon Prairie was founded by a pair of unlikely Iowans: Stefan and Thomas Hansen. The pair are sons of Danish citizens, were born and raised in Germany and now choose to live in Des Moines. While school initially attracted each of them to Iowa…