April 11, 2012

  • Couple launches web app to help track fertility

    If the feedback from mommy blogs like Baby Kerf and Offbeat Mama is any indication, women have been waiting a long time for a more aesthetically pleasing charting site for the fertility awareness method. Ova Ova, launched in February by Amanda Kohler (pictured), 24, and her husband Kevin, 29, has stepped into the gap left…

  • Prairie Portrait: Neil Roberts of BitMethod

    Silicon Prairie News: A couple weeks since BitMethod announced its shift in focus to developing Change, what’s your take on devoting most of your time to the product rather than to consulting or client work? | Neil Roberts: Our work always begins with creating beautiful wireframes, mockups and interaction documents we’re very proud of, that…

  • Bank in India to use GoalSaver, the white label SmartyPig

    Less than one month after revealing its India office, Social Money today announced an international alliance with ICICI Bank in India. “We are thrilled to be working with one of the world’s leading financial services …

  • Dwolla’s Milne to present Tuesday at Tech ESP event in Kansas City

    Another Tuesday, another public speaking engagement on the Silicon Prairie for Ben Milne. One week removed from a high-profile question-and-answer session in Des Moines, Milne, the co-founder and CEO of Dwolla, will present Tuesday evening as part of Kansas City’s Technology Entrepreneur Speakers Program (Tech ESP). The event will take place from 5:30-7 p.m. at…

  • Join us Thursday at the SPN Meetup with Startup Weekend Kansas City

    Silicon Prairie News will add two hours to the upcoming 54-hour Startup Weekend Kansas City when we host a meetup from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at The Cashew in Kansas City, Mo. The meetup will be the first of the year in this part of The Prairie. At our meetups, you can expect to catch up…

  • UNL’s Waite is ‘a kid in a candy store’ as tech-focused journalism professor

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism practice professor Matt Waite will serve as a speaker and mentor at Hack Omaha this weekend. The path that brought him there includes ventures as varied as a book on wetlands preservation, a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and work on the cutting edge of drone journalism. But it’s a path…