Yesterday at NodeSummit 35 startups competed in NodeJam. We couldn't interview all of them, but we had several on theCube and we interviewed a few others from the demo floor. Ranging from online foreign language tutoring to an engine that adds multithreading and other features to scripting languages, these companies displayed a wide array of products and services.
The big winner was Quizlet, an online flash cards application that is catching on in schools. ServicesAngle editor Alex Williams says his daughter, a senior in high school, tells him she can't imagine her life without the tool and credits it for her high GPA. She wants to know when there's going to be a mobile app.
My personal favorite, Safer Aging, won best use of Node.js. Co-founded by JSConf co-organizer Chris Williams, the company created a sensor system that can be deployed in a senior's home to monitor for a number of signs and can notify family or caretakers if something seems wrong. According to Williams the big problems that other senior care technologies have is that they are very expensive and/or require seniors to make lifestyle changes and wear monitors on their bodies. Even if the senior wears a device all the time, devices with motion sensors send too many false positives.
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Yesterday at NodeSummit 35 startups competed in NodeJam. We couldn't interview all of them, but we had several on theCube and we interviewed a few others from the demo floor. Ranging from online foreign language tutoring to an engine that adds multithreading and other features to scripting languages, these companies displayed a wide array of products and services.
The big winner was Quizlet, an online flash cards application that is catching on in schools. ServicesAngle editor Alex Williams says his daughter, a senior in high school, tells him she can't imagine her life without the tool and credits it for her high GPA. She wants to know when there's going to be a mobile app.
My personal favorite, Safer Aging, won best use of Node.js. Co-founded by JSConf co-organizer Chris Williams, the company created a sensor system that can be deployed in a senior's home to monitor for a number of signs and can notify family or caretakers if something seems wrong. According to Williams the big problems that other senior care technologies have is that they are very expensive and/or require seniors to make lifestyle changes and wear monitors on their bodies. Even if the senior wears a device all the time, devices with motion sensors send too many false positives.
