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Thinking social again, Dwolla’s Dollar Thoughts looks to up its userbase
Over the weekend, Dwolla co-founder Ben Milne and Entrepreneurial Technologies’ James Armstead created Dollar Thoughts, a website that features user-submitted short statements and allows visitors to vote each statement up or down and share on Facebook or Twitter. With the implementation …
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Proxibid unleashes ‘Superman,’ the largest product upgrade in its history
It may not enable users to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but the bundle of upgrades — internally nicknamed “Project Superman” — announced today by Proxibid will provide what the company is touting as “the most user-friendly and secure online bidding experience available” and marks the largest product upgrade to date for Proxibid,…
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Google names Rachel Hack of SITAKS its KC Fiber community manager
Google has tabbed Rachel Hack as the point person to help bring its ultra-high speed internet to the Kansas City area, the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Business Journal reported today. Hack (left, photo from linkedin.com) is the president of the Software and Information Technology Association of Kansas (SITAKS), a membership group designed to…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. Tuesday with David Graff of Hudl
As you likely know, it’s officially football season on the Silicon Prairie. So what better time to have the CEO and co-founder of one of the region’s most successful sports-related startups as our guest on PrairieCast? Hudl’s David Graff (left, photo from twitter.com) will join us live on Tuesday at 2 p.m. to fill us…
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Events: Power Breakfast, TechBrew, Startup Weekend and more
Keep your eyes peeled for some great traction this week on the Prairie. Starting off the week, the 2011 Power Breakfast and SITAKS breakfast briefing will replenish folks on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, and Nebraska Global will Face the Chamber at a luncheon on Wednesday. On Thursday, look for the Great Plains Capital Conference in…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: The one after SPN won the kickball tournament
On account of some technical difficulties, our latest Weekly Wrap-Up video is hitting the site a tad later than normal. So we’ll put function over form here and eschew our usual attempts at WWU humor in favor of a more utilitarian introduction: Jeff and Dusty hosted. (Insert current events joke here.) It was our 105th…