On July 23, Cincinnati joins New York, Austin, San Francisco, London, Istanbul and other notable cities in hosting the 2015 NewCo conference, when over 80 local businesses will tell their stories, demo their products or tour their facilities.
After Jordan Axani posted a note on Reddit looking for someone who had the same name as his ex-girlfriend to take her ticket and go on a trip with him, he came up with an idea for a travel app using tips from locals. A version of the app launched for an All Star Game test run.
Jason Snell started We Have Become Vikings 8 years ago. Today, his work is popping up everywhere, from larger-than-life city murals to All Start Game paraphernalia.
Jacqueline Wood is an artist, filmmaker and organizer who can't stop experimenting. Her drive to share experimental film with Cincinnati won a People's Liberty grant to design a 10-week communal experiment that begins Thursday, July 2.
Look Here, historic preservationist Anne Delano Steinert's place-based public history project, will mount historic photographs around OTR as close as possible to the vantage point from which they were originally taken, comparing historic views to today's view.
Blue Seat Media doubled in size (2 to 4 people) during its accelerator class at Ocean and is now beta-testing its new Gameball app to build "optimism and positivity" among baseball fans.
Cincinnati's only manufacturing accelerator program has selected its 2015 class of companies, and they’re already hard at work: AVA, yoga equipment; Beluga Razor, high-end straight-blade razors; Mortal Skis, skis and related products designed for Midwest slopes; and Paper Acorn, folded paper objects.
Mark Mussman is making the tools for creating Android apps accessible to as many people as possible through the Creative App Project, which will teach a dozen non-techies how to design, build and market Android apps over six weeks this summer.
Casamatic, hoping to be fully functional by August, will open up possibilities for home buyers by customizing sales listings based on what's important to the user.
Colleen Sullivan and Maija Zummo, with the help of a People's Liberty Project Grant, will launch Made in Cincinnati this fall as an e-commerce site connecting consumers to local products and the makers' stories.
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