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Tune in Tomorrow: PrairieCast at 1:30 p.m. CST

Silicon Prairie News’ Geoff Wood (right) and 48Web’s Andy Brudtkuhl (left, photo courtesy of Brudtkuhl) will be bringing back the weekly PrairieCast podcast tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. CST. The show, which used to be filmed from Brudtkuhl’s home studio, has a new home, itself. Starting tomorrow, it willl be a part of the Webcast One…

January 10, 2011
Guest Post: How Oregon uses Hudl to prepare for BCS Championship Game

(This is a guest post by Matt Mueller, Coach Relations Manager for Hudl.) The Ducks do not slow down. The New York Times called their style “Speed-Freak Football.” During games, opponents routinely ask them to slow down or fake injuries after plays to prevent Oregon’s offense, which leads the FBS in both scoring (49.3 points…

January 10, 2011
Sunday Video: Angry Birds creator discusses success of game

It’s pretty unlikely that you haven’t heard of Angry Birds, but do you know about the company behind the international mobile app success story? Based out of Finland, Rovio has been making games since 2003, and, believe it or not, Angry Birds is the 52nd game they’ve released. In a December interview with John Berman…

January 9, 2011
Big Omaha Video Series: Extended Speaker Q&A

(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the tenth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features the “Extended Speaker Q&A” in which we brought back on stage six of our speakers: Jason Fried of 37signals, Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and VaynerMedia, Scott Belsky of Behance, Dennis Crowley…

January 6, 2011
Prairie Moves: Rick Knudtson, Joe Hobot, Move Creative & more

Published every Tuesday, 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. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

January 4, 2011
Top 10 Moments of Year 1 in Des Moines

The Des Moines launch, our virtual “Grand Opening” of sorts in this community, took place on January 14, 2010 to coincide with the launch of our site redesign (see “Welcome to Silicon Prairie News Version 2.0”). Our first post on a Des Moines company, however, dates back to September 2008 when Jeff Slobotski talked with…

January 3, 2011
Did you spot the differences? The answers to our holiday card

We here at Silicon Prairie News, Brightmix, and Tripleseat had a great time putting our holiday card together this year. 138 friends, family, and readers submitted their results online. As a fun wrap up, and since we kept track of a bit more information than just name, we have some statistics for those who played…

January 3, 2011
Sunday Video: Clay Shirky: ‘How do groups get anything done?’

In his 2005 TED talk titled “Institutions vs. Collaboration,” notable author Clay Shirky posed a question, “How do groups get anything done?” More precisely, “How do you organize a group of individuals so that output of the group is something coherent and of lasting value instead of just being chaos.” For the next 19 minutes,…

January 2, 2011
Weekly Startup Links: For Entrepreneurs, Forbes, and more

Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.

January 1, 2011
2010 Top 10: Most-commented on posts

One of the main motivators of everyone involved with the production of Silicon Prairie News is the conversations and discussions that we bring about in our region. More than any number of hits to our site…

December 31, 2010