This weekend proved to be pretty full of surprises for Passpack. While we were working on our future releases, Passpack got some pretty noteworthy attention both in the States and in Italy. Take a look at why we all have smiles on our faces today…
Mind the Bridge
You may remember Passpack’s announcement of it’s first round of seed funding and since the start up world is a crazy race forward, we’ve already started thinking about our next round of funding and one of the first events we plan on participating in is Venice’s Mind the Bridge Venture Camp on October 10-11.
Passpack is officially one of the Fall 2008 Mind the Bridge finalists. We have been holding our breath for the past 2 weeks and news came in that Passpack was chosen, alongside 13 other start-ups.
Wish us luck!
Passpack Goes National – on MSNBC
We posted Passpack’s appearance on NBC-TV which aired in a few cities including Detroit, Palm Springs and Charlottesville, but guess what? MSNBC’s Tech Watch talked about Passpack too and this time it went national! If you didn’t get a chance to see it…
Tara was interviewed by Words Cause Radio on Saturday. If you are curious to know a little more about Passpack’s co-founder and the beginnings of Passpack, you may want to check out the Words Cause Radio show which features Passpack’s very own Tara who was asked to speak about how she has helped make passpack.com more than just an idea. She also gives some great advice to those who may be thinking about starting a company of their own.
So sit back, relax and learn a little something about Tara and a little something more about Passpack and let us know what you’ve learned…
The discussion is languishing on that last one (anyone disagree? agree? not understand?), but we did bring it to the attention of AjaxPatterns author Michael Mahemoff, he picked up the news on Ajaxian together with the release of the Host-Proof Hosting Library.
The interview is part of a series dedicated to womentrepreneurs. I’m looking forward to a good time. We’ll be chatting about my background in design, PassPack (of course) and … the Pope? Here’s the rundown.
(No worries, if you can’t make the live show, you can subscribe to the archive via iTunes or RSS)
Woke up this morning to find traffic spiking – what happened? PassPack was featured on Lifehacker.
“It especially shines on the web, though, because once you give PassPack the password data to your frequented web sites, you can turn on its coolest feature, which is an auto-login bookmarklet for all the sites you’ve entered into PassPack.”
Thanks to Lifehacker journalist Adam Pash for those kind words. Check out more of Adam’s articles here.
For those of you wondering how I hadn’t noticed earlier that we’d been featured on Lifehacker (I’m a faithful reader) – we started moving into our new office yesterday and wasn’t watching my feeds. What timing! I’ll try and get some pics up to the blog a little later on.
Just a quick post while we toil away here on the Beta 6. Here’s a few links for those of you who’d like to keep up on PassPack news and/or follow us while we work:
Follow You Favorite Founders
I, Tara, am fretting over the interface and can be most often found on twitter. Follow me and get the play-by-play of what I’m working on.
Francesco is testing the secret sauce. He is most often found on his tumblog where he posts photos in some mysterious order, or occasionally on twitter.
We also maintain a slightly more formal PassPack News account on Twitter – just straightforward product announcements.
PassPack in the Google Gears Meme
The Google Operating System blog posted about PC world’s disappointment in lack of Google Gears apps, and replied with a list of the important applications that are using the Gears plugin. PassPack was mentioned for our offline version. We’ve been getting quite a bit of attention today as a result.
Il Sole 24 Ore
This Italian financial newspaper gave front page space to password fatigue.
PassPack was featured in the call out box of password managers with a lovely color photo of our homepage (warms my heart!).
That’s it for today – see you all in twitterverse!
Yesterday Nicole Martinelli from Wired contacted me for input on e-voting. Nicole, like me, is a US expat in Italy and knows how frustrating casting ballots from abroad can be. Is e-voting the solution?
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