September 10, 2010

  • Live-streaming: Startup Weekend Omaha starts tonight, 7:15 p.m. CDT

    (Attendees gather at What Cheer for the opening day of Startup Weekend Omaha. Photo by John Henry Müller.) Join us around 7:15 p.m. CDT for live-streaming of the opening talks at Startup Weekend Omaha. Hear Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks, Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo, present on the topic “startup lessons learned.”…

  • Nebraska Film: Nik Fackler, writer & director of ‘Lovely, Still’

    Last November, the newly-opened Marcus Midtown Cinema played host to Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau for an exclusive showing of his latest lead acting role, “Lovely, Still”. The man of the hour, however, was one 56 years younger than Landau, Nik Fackler. The film’s 25 year-old writer and director (now 26), was in his hometown to…

  • RockDex now open for business, subscriptions start at $23 per month

    Yesterday afternoon, RockDex officially opened its service to the public, leaving private beta and launching its monthly subscription packages. “We had 3,000 peoplesignup for the beta and we let in about 500 to try it out,” Jimmy Winter, RockDex’s chief architect, said via email. “Up until now, our users were all labels…

  • Weekly Wrap Up from The Combine (with technical difficulties)

    Thanks to those of you who joined us as we attempted to live stream from The Combine conference in Bloomington, Indiana. We had some technical difficulties, however, resulting in a choppy live stream and no recording of the show. Join us next Friday when we talk about our Combine adventures and catch up on the…