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Students wrap nine-week Dev/Iowa Bootcamp feeling prepared
Science fair-style demonstrations were set up in the University of Iowa’s Thinc Lab Wednesday to showcase students’ new programming skills. The demo day marked the last week of the intensive nine-week Dev/Iowa Bootcamp that taught students programming languages like HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Node.js.
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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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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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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…