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What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.
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Career Moves
- Bryan McCarty (@bryanmccarty) joined T8 Webware (Cedar Valley) as a Product Marketing Manager
- Tyler Harms (@harmsy85) and Jackson Murtha joined Blend Interactive (Sioux Falls) as developers
New Tech
- Canvis (Des Moines) released Blue Fingerprint Renovate, a tool for building owners doing renovations or expansions – canvis.us/blue-fingerprint-renovate
- Adam Coomes of Keymash (Kansas City) launched Caption Show, a Facebook game – apps.facebook.com/captionshow
New Creative
- Secret Penguin (Omaha) launched B&G Tasty Foods – bgtastyfoods.com
- Blue Compass Interactive (Des Moines) launched a new site for Syverson Strege | Sherpa Investment Management – onlyworkforyou.com
- Digital House (Omaha) launched a redesigned website for Heartland Family Services – heartlandfamilyservice.org
Product/Business Development
- Uppward’s (Des Moines) Facebook Places integration is now live – apps.facebook.com/uppward
- SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) is planning a move into Aksarben Village in November – SPN post
- Fundle (Iowa City, Iowa) blogged screenshots of its first transaction – blog.fundle.co
- Dwolla (Des Moines) announced a number of future updates to its communication tools with merchants and users – dwolla.com/blog
Media Mentions
- Syncbak (Marion, Iowa) – C-SPAN: “NCTA Cable Show and Consumer Electronics Association Tech Fair“
- Dwolla (Des Moines) – Lifehacker: “Why You Should Ditch PayPal and Use These Other Services to Send People Money“
- Mike Colwell of Business Innovation Zone (Des Moines) – Des Moines Register: “Five things you should know about raising capital for your startup“
- VineMe (Des Moines) – Des Moines Business Record: “VineMe prepares for test from Google“
Misc.
- God at Play (Des Moines) launched a new website dedicated to creating meaningful gameplay – godatplay.com and meaningfulgameplay.com
- Nebraska Entrepreneur (Lincoln) is taking ideas for its next video series – nebraskaentrepreneur.com
- The Corridor Business Journal highlighted a number of events in the area – “Big idea events coming up in Corridor“
- Think Big Partners (Kansas City) announced the Gigabit Challenge – gigabitchallenge.com
- Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) is being put to use by TechCrunch – “Make The TechCrunch Executive Assistant Do Anything You Want On Zaarly Tomorrow“
