If being featured in Smarta’s “60-Second Start-Ups” earlier this month wasn’t a big enough thrill (it’s my favourite business website), they invited me to do a video interview with them last week. I’m used to being on the other side of the lens (I’m a video producer when I’m wearing my other hat) so having [...]
It’s a personal thrill that Mindings is featured in Smarta’s “60-Second Start-Ups” this week. Smarta is a one of my favourite business support websites, run and backed by some of the UK’s top entrepreneurs. Check out the article here. Smarta is a great resource. In particular, I love their advice videos, featuring interviews with brilliant people like Deborah Meaden, [...]
The Guardian Apps Blog made its debut in February 2011 with the aim of covering the apps space, from innovative new applications for smartphones and tablets to the startups and developers that were making them. As 2011 drew to a close, they rounded up what they considered the more thought-provoking interviews from the year. Mindings came [...]
On Friday, UK’s The Guardian profiled Mindings, with the wry headline “Elderly relatives not on Facebook? There’s Mindings for that…” I first met technology journalist Stuart Dredge at the BlueVia/Telefonica-organised Power of One conference. Stuart used the announcement of our Beta trails to write a very positive piece about our up-coming service. Read the article here. [...]
This summer, five “prototype” Mindings picture frames were used in a clinical study in a major London hospital to see if Mindings could help people during their recovery from major brain injuries (stroke, road traffic accident etc). After such an injury patients often remain in hospital for up to six months, which is difficult for [...]
Thursday 8 December 2011 Mindings was one of five tech start-ups who emerged as winners of the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups 2011 competition tonight! At the final pitching event twenty competitors presented in front of a packed Cambridge University Queens College theatre, judged by senior representatives from companies including Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, Qualcomm Ventures, Innovacom, Broadcom, Orange, [...]
In this week’s The Next Web weekend feature, Paul Sawyers ask nine startups “how did you get your name?“, including Mindings! Plus, Mindings wasn’t always called Mindings, found out what it used to be called… Read the full story here. Stu
Respected mobile media specialist, and Co-Founder of Mobile Monday, Helen Keegan (@technokitten), has cited Mindings as one of the mobile startups she has her eye on, in her Mobile10 interview on the Camerjam blog. Helen has been championing accessibility for some time, and recently was involved in running accessibility workshops around the UK for the Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility [...]
This Friday I have been asked to present at Bath’s openMIC Mobile Innovation Camp, at an event for which the brief could have been specifically written for Mindings! At an event entitled “Android and The Internet of Things” the opportunities presented by the availability of sub $100 Android tablets will be discussed. The number [...]
I was privileged to present Mindings at the Blue Via/Telefonica event “Power of One” at London’s Battersea Power Station on the 11th of November. The reaction was terrific, and many attendees and fellow contributors kindly Tweeted about both Mindings and my presentation. One particularly nice follow-up of the event, though, is the press coverage it has helped generate. The [...]
