August 10, 2010

  • Prairie Moves: Pongr, Tripleseat, Sigler Companies and more

    (Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…

  • Statup Drinks & TechBrew this Thursday, August 12

    Two quality, casual networking events are taking place this Thursday evening: Startup Drinks in Omaha and TechBrew in Des Moines. For more upcoming events, check out…

  • TwitZip delivers hyperlocal news via Twitter

    In 2008, Nathan Heinrich (left) of Des Moines and business partner Aaron Donsbach of Seattle, Washington, registered Twitter accounts for nearly all U.S. ZIP Codes. At the time, they had recognized a problem with location-based communication and felt that a combination of the Twitter platform and ZIP Codes would provide an answer. Heinrich and Donsbach…