Providence Geeks at AS220, Wed. July 13th.
Category - Technology
Providence Geeks, May 11
The Providence Geeks dinner, featuring Alektrona, is Wednesday, May 11th.
Providence Geeks, April 13
Providence Geeks, Wednesday, April 13th, 5:30pm at AS220.
Providence Geeks, Feb. 16
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011, 5:30 – 8pm AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap) Providence-based Tellart isn’t just one of the pioneers of the...
Jack Templin nominated for EDC Board
Photo of Jack Templin by bjepson on flickr My Twittersphere and Facebooksphere have been lit up with talk about Jack Templin being nominated to the RI Economic Development Commission Board by Governor Chafee and with...
Streetfilms: Chicago bus tracker
With RIPTA currently working on a bus tracking system of their own, and with RISD having a beautiful campus video display information system, I’m seeing a partnership possibility. The system here in Chicago allows...
LED Crosswalk for bikes and pedestrians
This video depicts a raised crossing for pedestrians and cyclists at the entrance to a roundabout in Papendrecht, Netherlands. This crossings adds an infrared sensor which detects approaching pedestrians and cyclists...
RIPTA website survey
Photo cc jk5854 RIPTA is in the progress of redesigning their website and has a survey seeking your input. Go here to take the survey. RIPTA’s website is something that has come up here time and time again. If...
Maker Fair Rhode Island (Aug. 28)
Photo credit: Chris Meringolo Maker Fair Rhode Island 2010 is happening August 28th. We’re doing another Mini Maker Faire here in RI, and hey, it’s happening soon. This year it will once again be embedded...
Providence Geeks – September 23, 2009
Tonight’s Geeks Dinner has been moved to Trinity Brewhouse. From the Providence Geeks: It’s September, and Geeks is back in full-force! Few folks (even geeks) realize that every day in a renovated mill in...
Greater City Providence’s New Facebook Page
We’ve switched up our Facebook presence from a Group to a Page. The page allows posts made here to feed directly to Facebook, and if you become a fan of our page, direct to your Facebook Wall. Very 2.0 of us...
WiFi Plaza?
I received a Facebook notification from Greater Kennedy Plaza today announcing upcoming events in the Plaza, at the bottom of the notification I saw this: Also, enjoy the free wi-fi anywhere in Kennedy Plaza all day...
Providence Geeks – June 17, 2009 …plus stick around for Hip Hop
From the Providence Geeks: We’ve got a special Geek Dinner in store for June. AS220 Labs – the new “tech arm” of our gracious host AS220 – will be showing off what they’ve wrought in...
LED Street lighting coming to Providence?
A while back Matt wrote a post about LED street lighting, cities such as New York; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Anchorage, Alaska have plans to implement LED street lighting. In the conversation I suggested that Providence...
Site down, up, down, up…
Photo by youngthousands from Flickr Hi folks! Well, our website is back up, though it’s been through quite a week. Starting on Monday, we noticed our site had been hacked and our homepage replaced. Fortunately, we...
Providence Geeks – March 18, 2009
East Greenwich-based Cronk Games has developed and released an exciting action puzzler game for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Cronk. Joel Evans, who founded Geek.com in the mid 90s, teamed up with industry experts in...
Providence Geeks – February 18, 2009
Consistently recognized as one of the leaders in social software for the enterprise, Traction Software’s award-winning TeamPage platform includes blogs, wikis, social tagging & bookmarking, and now...
Providence Geeks – January 21, 2009
Let’s get this new year kicked off right. Join us for the first Geek Dinner of 2009. Providence-based Treanor Brothers Animation is one of the world’s leading 3d animation boutiques for the online and video...