The Tech Garden News

FluxSauce and Rounded Development LLC Open at Tech Garden

FluxSauce is a new web application company, founded by Jonathan Peck in June. FluxSauce specializes in the development of customized and interactive web applications that provide data-oriented business solutions. Examples include lead generation, work order tracking, and taking a job from work specifications through sourcing and delivery. Web applications are more complex than brochure sites and call for sophisticated skill sets in terms of software design, development, configuration and deployment.

Peck is an experienced web application developer with more than a decade of industry experience. Prior to FluxSauce, Peck served as senior project developer at ProZ.com, the world's largest translator network (also located at The Tech Garden). He is a Zend certified PHP 5 engineer and specializes in Drupal services - a back-end system for websites ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, government sites and outlets including The Economist, Fox News, The White House and The Onion.

For more information, visit http://fluxsauce.com.

Rounded Development LLC launched their new web design firm last month. The team of young entrepreneurs is developing cutting-edge websites that integrate advanced tools and social media platforms with unique approaches that define and brand individual clients.

Rounded, founded by Eric Candino, Andrew Farah, Rob Grazioli, and Benjamin Redfield, focuses on emphasizing the functional visual component in web design while considering the individual user experience. Not only does Rounded specialize in web design, but the team is experienced in mobile web development, web applications, and mobile web applications. For more information, visit www.rounded.co.

Tech Garden Names Curator and Artist-in-Residence

The Tech Garden has named Ty Marshal as its first curator and artist-in-residence. The one-year appointment will advance the mission to grow the creative tech community, and create more community linkages for the facility which houses an art gallery, theater and other space for performing and visual arts venues.

 Ty Marshal is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on cultural activism, social sculpture, semiotics and theater - and takes a critical view of social, political, historical and cultural issues through visual commentary on human nature and pop culture.  A native of the region, he recently returned after a period of working in the downstate area, and brings an impressive background.  He worked at the internationally acclaimed Dia Beacon, which houses the Dia Foundation's impressive collection of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present, and was very involved in the dynamic gallery scene in the Hudson Valley.  He has also been actively involved in the arts renaissance underway in the city of Syracuse.  He was one of the organizers and curators of Lipe Art Park and was co-founder of Evolution Art Studio.

 "I will be seeking ways to explore the intersection of art, technology and science through visual displays, film screenings, discussions, collaborations and other events - with a goal of highlighting Central New York's position as a center of innovation and creativity," said Marshal.

AppFury: Mobile Marketing in the Palm of Your Hand

Tech Garden tenant, AppFury, has launched a new website to help potential clients understand what they can do in the mobile market. Founded by Eric Hinman and Steve Von Deak, AppFury provides websites and mobile applications for companies to promote themselves online and on the go. They create a mobile strategy tailored to the business, implanting applications that would benefit the business exclusively.

With their first success, SOHOinmypocket, a hyper local iPhone app, in late 2009, AppFury has become a premier application developer. CenterState CEO recently used AppFury to create "Creative Core Connect", which showcases over 3,000 companies in Central New York. The app allows people to find information about local businesses and also receive information and potential deals.

Next, the company is releasing a new web application called "WeAreMobile" which will enable clients to build their own mobile website in minutes, allowing the user to pick and choose what options they would like to offer to customers, along with a menu of perks from the application. For more information, visit www.AppFury.com.

RadTech International Conference Coming to Syracuse

RadTech, the global leader in ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) curing technology for printing and packaging, industrial coatings, medical devices and electronics, is hosting uv.eb EAST 2011, October 4-5 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center. This conference is supported by NYSERDA in association with MACNY. It is being developed in partnership with the new SUNY ESF Ultraviolet, Electron-Beam Curing Technology Center which was recently established with a $900,000 grant from NYSERDA. For more information, visit www.uvebeast.com.

Over the past several years, NYSERDA has partnered with RadTech International and the Association for UV & EB Technology, to promote UV and EB clean energy technologies to manufacturers in New York state. The establishment of the ESF center establishes Syracuse as a national resource for this advanced clean energy technology.