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IdeaMensch presents four events, 20 speakers Aug. 2-8
he 48-state road trip with a mission to help people bring their ideas to life arrived in Missouri today to start an eight-day, four-city tour in the Silicon Prairie. We first covered the IdeaMensch road trip, #IM48, last week, but since that time, the Los Angeles-based blog and events company has released details. IdeaMensch makes…
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Amp’d app aims to connect artists to audiences at concerts
You snag front-row seats to a concert, but what’s on stage soon takes a backseat to what’s on your phone. Somewhere in between tweeting, taking photos, and searching for lyrics to the song that just played, you look up. The show’s over, and you just spent the bulk of it glued to your phone. Steven…
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Prairie Moves: GigaOm, Gizmodo get on the ground with Google Fiber
Lead Read: “Google Fiber in the real world: Here’s what’s good and what needs work” and “Ask the First Guy With Google’s Blazing 1000Mbit/s Internet Connection How It Works” – GigaOm and Gizmodo, respectively, present first-hand accounts of the ultra-fast internet connection promised by Google Fiber. Quotable: “But as residents in parts of Kansas City…
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Risiti helps track receipts, hopes to connect businesses with customers
Receipts are a hassle. Sometimes it’s important to save them, but other times it just feels that way as consumers hoard them out of habit. After watching …
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Thank you to our July sponsors!
Once again I get the opportunity to call your attention to the companies here in the Silicon Prairie and abroad who have stepped up to support the efforts the online efforts of Silicon Prairie News this month: Power Protection Products, Inc (P3) is a provider of energy related products and data center solutions. Check out…
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NU Squared brings vision therapy to tablets
Nadira Shadeed and Joe Rouw are a husband-wife team of optometrists who run a vision therapy-exclusive practice in Georgia. When the two discovered no software on the market suited their unique needs, they decided to build their own. They teamed up with Far Reach, a Cedar Falls-based web design company where Joe’s brother Chris Rouw…