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Tools of the Trade: Viddy provides simple tool to share mobile video
With the proliferation of smart phones in people’s hands today, mobile applications have brought new ways to share our everyday lives. Whether through picture or video, a couple swipes of the finger can publish high-quality content to our social networks and online connections. Instagram, a photo-sharing app on the iOS platform, just passed 10 million…
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Tools of the Trade: Loosecubes makes it easy to find coworking near you
If you haven’t heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we’ve covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you’re an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what…
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Tools for the Trade: Win the day with The Email Game
Feeling buried by email? Scared to wake up in the morning and see how much that unread email number has grown? Dreaming of the day you can reach INBOX ZERO? …
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Tools for the Trade: Share a slice of your life with Bre.ad
If you’ve ever tried to share a message or get the word out online, you know this isn’t an easy task. Today,the internet is littered with noise, clutter and links that aren’t relevant to us. Enter Bre.ad, a new kind of promotional URL shortener that is turning our links into “personalized billboards” and allowing us…
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Tools for the Trade: Star.Me makes the thank you fun again
My mom raised me to always remember the importance of the thank you note. Whether it was a birthday, graduation, or Christmas, the events were always followed by thank you notes. Although the common thank you has evolved today, only someone as clever as internet humorist and creative, Ze Frank, could find a way to…
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Tools for the Trade: Wildfire gives platform for Facebook promotions
Tickets to the Victoria Secret fashion show. Backstage tour passes with Kelly Clarkson. A free trip to Napa Valley. All of these things and more are possible with Facebook promotions and sweepstakes through Wildfire. The Wildfire app allows you to easily conduct fun, interactive promotions for brand marketing on the Facebook platform. Wildfire is based…
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Tools for the Trade: LaunchRock lets startups do launch day their own way
Launch day — the moment your startup, blog, business, or new idea had circled on its calendar. The process of getting to that day can be arduous, and perhaps what you launch isn’t really the finished product or service you want to display. There has to be an easier way, right? Say hello to LaunchRock.…
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Tools for the Trade: Fast Society keeps groups in the mobile loop
We’ve all been there before, it’s Friday night and you’re trying to coordinate with all your friends what the plan is for this weekend. Through various phone calls and text threads things quickly become confusing and no one knows what is going on. What if everyone could join the same team and be on the…