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Context is everything: Hollrback rolls out Android app on eve of SXSW
Hollrback, a startup that’s made “context is everything” its mantra, illustrated an appreciation for the importance timing today with the release of its latest mobile offering. The context-based contact management system unveiled its Android app today (left, screenshots from market.android.com), on the eve of South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “We’re all about meeting…
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Hollrback explainer video: ‘Knowing that context is everything’
At Silicon Prairie News, we love seeing startups put out explainer videos to give potential and current users a succinct overview of the problem their product solves and how to best go about using it. These 1-3 minute videos are most often screencasts or animations. In Hollrback’s case, it’s a 1:32 animation that is very…
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What’s that mysterious Hollrback beta code? Answer: ‘rickroll’
No, you haven’t been “rickrolled,” you’ve just learned the beta code for Hollrback, an iPhone and web app released by Gabe Kangas and team earlier this week. In fact, if you head over to Hollrback.com to sign up, the “Beta Code” field is already pre-populated with the code: “rickroll.” Signing up for the Hollrback web…
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Hollrback in action – the fastest QR code reader we’ve experienced
Yesterday, when Jimmy Winter of RockDex stopped by our office to say hello, we cut a short video of us demonstrating the use of Hollrback, a contact management iPhone and web app that launched out of Omaha yesterday. Also, Hollrback’s creator, Gabe Kangas, published a thorough post yesterday on his personal blog, Gabe’s Digital Life…
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#MysteriousDottie Revealed: Gabe Kangas launches Hollrback
What was launched last year as a project dubbed “#MysteriosDottie” has now come to fruition. Completely under wraps until today, the project of Gabe Kangas was released in the iPhone app store as Hollrback, a “context-specific cloud based contacts management service.” Or in simpler terms: a free iPhone app that allows its users to create…
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The story of PandoraFM
At last Thursday’s “Pandora Listener Town Hall” in Omaha, an attendee raised his hand and asked Pandora founder Tim Westergren if his service had any future plans to open up their API (application programming interface) to allow developers to build web apps on top of Pandora and user data. The attendee, Omaha developer Gabe Kangas…
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Lessons learned from TechStars for a Day
After we learned Omahan Gabe Kangas was invited to participate in TechStars for a Day, we asked him to share his thoughts in a guest post on his return. | Alright, stay with me. I promise you’ll get something at the end. I don’t promise you’ll like it, though. I attended TechStars for a Day…
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Culture of risk in Omaha
Yesterday, Gabe Kangas (@gabek) officially gave notice that he’s leaving his job and will be pursuing other opportunities. For a bit of context, its probably worth reading his entire writeup on his blog. Normally, this wouldn’t be a huge deal — people leave their jobs all the time. However, this one is different for me. Why?…
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Retweet This: @GabeK behind @RT_Thursday
What began as a parody of the most popular Twitter memes, #FollowFriday and #MusicMonday, has begun to gain a following of its own. In April, Omahan Gabe Kangas, @GabeK on Twitter, began manually retweeting his and his friends’ pointless tweets from the username RT_Thursday. “It was a joke,” he recalled, “and only my followers got…