April 30, 2010

  • PrairieCast: Brad Dwyer of the Facebook app company Hatchlings

    Our guest on PrairieCast this week was Brad Dwyer, the founder of Hatchlings, an online social game built utilizing the Facebook platform. Brad, a senior at Iowa State University majoring in computer science, is making a lot of waves in Central Iowa’s entrepreneur community. Most recently, he took home the award for the Student Innovation…

  • Live-streaming now: Jeff Raikes at UNL on The Business of Doing Good

    Starting at 2 p.m. CDT, Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be speaking live at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His talk will be titled “The Business of Doing Good.” Watch the live stream at raikes.unl.edu.

  • Berkshire hashtag: #BRK2010. @BillGates at #BRKtweetup?

    When searching Twitter today for Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting chatter, there seemed to be quite the confusion over an agreeable hashtag for this year’s event. So, since we’re helping to organize the unofficial Berkshire Tweetup tomorrow, I thought I’d step up to the plate and set the “official” hashtag: #BRK2010 Now that we’ve decided on…

  • Weekly Wrap Up at Slowdown, venue for the Big Omaha Opening Party

    Mentioned this week: * Filming on location at Slowdown, the venue for this year’s Big Omaha Opening Party (more details coming soon) * Shout! Weekly’s 30 Under 30 * Unofficial Berkshire Hathaway Tweetup – Saturday, May 1 3:30-5:30 p.m. * Big Omaha speaker interviews: Scott Harrison of charity: water released this week, Jason Fried and…