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Weekly Wrap Up
Mentioned this week: HDC, Cut & Paste Competition, Foursquare, Kt McBratney of Phenomblue, Lays Potato Chips, Highlight Midwest, BarCamp Omaha “ShirtUp” (Coming Soon…), Big Omaha Questions, comments or concerns around this week’s “Weekly Wrap Up Show” can be addressed to danny@siliconprairienews.com. In the same light, we’re looking for questions to tackle on next week’s show…
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Interview with Twitassist.me team member, Luke Pillow
A couple of weeks ago, I conducted an email interview with Luke Pillow, a member of the Kansas City-based team, The Phoenix-Durango, that developed Twitassist.me for the 2009 Rails Rumble. The Ruby on Rails web application is now fully functional, and since I don’t have a cause of my own to promote, I’ll give some…
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Foursquare lauches in Omaha!
Alright folks! It’s here! Some of you may have already seen some chatter on Twitter for this new application called Foursquare. For those who don’t know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates fun gaming elements. The game revolves around “checking into” places you are physically at. The experience is fun and extremely…
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Startup Drinks at Nomad Lounge
I’m pleased to announce that there will be a somewhat different event this week that is being organized by Tom Chapman of the Chamber of Commerce and the Cornstalks group: Startup Drinks at Nomad Lounge this Thursday (tonight) at 6:30 p.m. The format for this event will be slightly different from what you’re used to…
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Five in Five and our blogroll: Changes are here!
I’m excited to announce a couple of changes: I’ll now be accepting written submission for our Five in Five series We’ve moved our blogroll from our main page to its own page Five in Five With the goal of this series to highlight a blogger each week, I’ve realized the video format isn’t attracting the…
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Guest Post: Interview with Cerner Health Conference Keynote Speaker Mitch Joel
This is a guest post written by Ramsey Mohsen, a web consultant and video blogger for the e-consultancy Digital Evolution Group in Overland Park, KS. He posts his tech news opinion regularly on his blog ramseymohsen.com. ********************************* There are a handful of people in the online space that I follow and respect almost everything they…
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Springboard Lunch Series at Scott Technology Center begins tomorrow
Update 10/13: The conversation with the Scott Technology Center was with Ken Moreano, Executive Director of the Center. We’re looking forward to an exciting new event taking place this week at the Scott Technology Center called Springboard. We at Silicon Prairie News are excited about the forward momentum among the community’s entrepreneurs and this effort…
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SPN interviews Scott Kubie of Market Street Media Foundry
Corrected attendance numbers for Market Day at 4:27 p.m. on 10/11/09 Tucked away in an old brick structure in the south end of the Des Moines’ East Village is an interesting artistic community called the Market Street Media Foundry (MSMF). MSMF was founded by Scott Kubie, a video editor, and his wife, local artist…
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Weekly Wrap Up
Added link to Prairie Dog Coalition at 11:00 a.m. Mentioned this Week: Prairie Dog Coalition, BarCamp Omaha — shirts are in!, Highlight Midwest, Movement Bash, Verdis Group open house, Nick Hudson and Jim Esch open The Halo Institute, and Big Omaha 2010 update Interests of Last Week: (BarCamp Omaha coverage in the blogosphere) 10/3 –…