NOLS Grads Launch New Company

Charles Ribaudo and Jim Young met on a NOLS Semester in Africa in 1993. This week at DEMO@15 they launched their start-up, Jambo. Jambo is peer-to-peer personal area matching technology, designed to let people directly network face-to-face with WiFi. Jambo uses PDAs, laptops, and smartphones, connecting them without intermediaries.

Soon NOLS will be offering this very cool service to NOLS grads. Imagine sitting at Gate 52 in LaGuardia and being notified that there is another NOLS grad sitting at Gate 60. If you have time you can decide to meet and swap some NOLS stories. Jambo allows you to wear your NOLS hat all the time! Stay tuned for more on this exciting development.

Charles and Jim’s story is featured this week in Forbes.

Bruce Palmer, NOLS marketing director