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Netflix app nabs top prize after 24 busy hours at first Hack the Midwest
If you were to guess the location of some Kansas City and the Midwest’s best developers and designers over the weekend, a golf course may not be your first choice, unless you knew about Hack The Midwest. Saturday morning nearly 100 hackers filed into the clubhouse of the Heartland Golf Club and set up shop…
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Meet our summer interns: Paige, Sarah and Kelsey
Today we welcome to the Silicon Prairie News team three new faces that will be spending the next 12 weeks with us. But unlike interns in years past that we’ve housed in our Omaha office, our interns this summer are based in cities throughout the Silicon Prairie. …
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Prairie Moves: A day in the life of a Dwolla developer evangelist
Lead Read: “A Day in the Life of a Developer Evangelist” – The Next Web interviewed Dwolla’s Michael Schonfeld (above) about his role as a developer evangelist. Quotable: “We’re happy with where we’re at but we’ve still got a long ways to go.” – Instin team blogging about its product myHomework app reaching the 50,000…
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Hudl acquires APEX, solidifies spot atop sports video analysis market
The high school sports offseason is, it appears, prime shopping season for Hudl. For the second offseason in a row — and the second time inside a calendar year — Hudl has purchased its largest competitor. The Lincoln company, which makes web-based video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams, today announced it has acquired…
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Prairie Portrait: Brandon Ratzlaff of Dwolla
Silicon Prairie News: You’re one of a handful of Dwolla team members not based in Des Moines. What do you do to stay tapped in to the company’s culture from afar? | Brandon Ratzlaff: There are a couple of things we do that I think really help keep the remote members aligned with the rest…