April 9, 2012

  • Startup Weekend Lincoln to debut September 7-9

    Startup Weekend’s spread through the region’s major college towns continues. Organizers today announced that Startup Weekend Lincoln will make its debut September 7-9 …

  • Gig Bits: Q&A sheds light on 100-mile mark, Fiber Huts

    Google has already hung more than 100 miles of fiber on utility poles throughout Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. But that’s not all that’s up in the air when it comes to Google’s ultra high-speed network. A post Wednesday on the Google Fiber Blog shed some light on what stands between Kansas Citians…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 1 p.m. Tuesday with Ben Milne and Danny Schreiber

    Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m. (special time!) for Episode 80 of PrairieCast – the final episode of our weekly webcast series that we launched in February 2010. Our guests will be Ben Milne (far left) of Dwolla – he was our first PrairieCast guest – and Danny Schreiber (near left) who leads our newsroom…

  • Dwolla rolls out redesign, gives new users test drive with free dimes

    Online cash transfer startup Dwolla quietly released a redesign of its user account interface on Sunday. The new look puts the user’s balance (amount held in Dwolla) and Instant balance (an optional line of credit) on the top of a user’s dashboard. It also presents a text field to enter an amount to either send…

  • Events: Prometheus Awards, i2iowa, SPN Meetup, Hack Omaha and more

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others…