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Snack by Pack app gives you puppies in your pocket once a day
Pack, the social network for your dog, doesn’t have a full-fledged app just yet, but it’s got the next best thing: “one minute of happiness when you need it.” Snack by Pack is a bite-sized app that delivers some of Pack’s best dog photos straight to your pocket once a day…
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Pack leaves private beta, launches for dogs, humans everywhere
We may be a little late to the party, but our friends at Pack—a social media platform exclusively for dog lovers—recently announced the site was leaving private beta, becoming available to dogs and their humans everywhere …
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Spun app aims to make everyone at Big Omaha just one intro away
We all know the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but what about the Six Degrees of Jeff Slobotski? Big Omaha is bound to create thousands of connections, which will continue on long after Friday. Attendees can see the relationships being built as they scan …
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“I live in Omaha” creator John Henry Müller to move to California
In two weeks, What Cheer’s John Henry Müller, the Omaha designer behind the grassroots campaign “I live in Omaha,” will jump in a moving truck with his family and head west to San Francisco. After living in the Midwest their entire lives, Müller said today on his website that it’s now time for he and…
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What Cheer trio joins Bay Area startup Pack
What Cheer, an Omaha-based web application design and development shop, announced today it has joined Pack, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based startup building an online platform for dog lovers. “Working on our own projects has always been something that we’ve wanted to do,” What Cheer founder John Henry Müller, who started the company six years ago,…
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What Cheer uses DonorsChoose API to highlight Omaha schools in need
Charles Best created DonorsChoose to make it easy for anyone to help students in need. Last week, the crew from What Cheer made it a little easier Best spoke Friday morning at Big Omaha about DonorsChoose, the website he founded that allows public school teachers to post classroom project requests and, in turn, lets donors…
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You’ll like this: I live in Omaha creators launch I love in Omaha site
It’s only a one-letter change from a popular grassroots campaign, but it’s a whole new feeling. The team at What Cheer, the Omaha website design and development studio behind the I live in Omaha campaign, today launched I love in Omaha. The site, which What Cheer’s John Henry Müller calls the “I live in Omaha…
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With ‘drastic upgrade’ to look and feel, QuickCal 3.0 sees sales soar
QuickCal 3.0 is flying off the virtual shelves, and it has a Twitter tip to thank — in part, at least — for the uptick in sales. QuickCal, the application that takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates those events and tasks in iCal, has seen its daily sales quadruple …
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Bee’s knees! What Cheer’s Bumble wins Twilio contest
On Tuesday, Twilio released the winners of its Twilio Client Developer Contest, and What Cheer’s Bumble took home one of the five winning titles. Bumble …
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Four artists to exhibit at Big Omaha 2011
One of my favorite parts of Big Omaha takes place not in the main speaking room at KANEKO but in rooms and hallways that lead up to it, which have played host to art installations and exhibits since our first conference in 2009. These artists, who have dedicated tens and hundreds of hours ahead of…