March 11, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Lincoln Calvin Pappas seems to eat, sleep and breathe online privacy policy. Sometimes almost literally. Pappas, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Nebraska and founder of online privacy manager SelectOut.org said he has brushed up on internet privacy by reading more than 600 policies — most of which amount to 2,500 words of drowse-inducing legalese. “It’s a good way,” he said, “to fall asleep at night.” And for Pappas, it’s been a good… read more
July 28, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha In January of this year, Todd Nichols began working full-time on his startup, TalkAbroad, a company using online video conferencing to connect American college students learning a foreign language with native speakers abroad. The idea for the Omaha native's startup came about while working for a micro-finance organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he learned to speak Spanish. "[I] spent a few years thinking about some of the skills that people down there had and my… read more