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  • 2010 Top 10: Most-watched videos

    This past year, we published over 160 videos containing all or part of our interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives and investors as well as events that we produce and those that we cover. Outside of our Big Omaha video series, in which some videos receive tens of thousands of views, are most-watched video of 2010 came…

  • charity: water’s work featured on ABC’s 20/20

    As we round out 2010, and reflect on some of the major initiatives that we were involved in this year at Silicon Prairie News, the Silicon Prairie News & Big Omaha charity: water Campaign was one of the most pivotal and encouraging efforts that we accomplished as a community. When I published the first post…

  • 2010 Top 10: Most-read posts

    Get ready for a mini-series of 2010 top 10 lists these next few days, beginning with our most-read posts today, our most-watched videos tomorrow and rounding it out on Friday with our most-commented posts. We’ll also have a year in review as well as a 2011 predictions post. Here’s our top 10 most-read posts of…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Matt Mullenweg & Robert Scoble

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the ninth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic (the company behind Wordpress, Akismet, Gravatar, IntenseDebate and more), interviewed by Robert Scoble, technical evangelist, author and blogger best known for his blog Scobleizer and his work with…

  • Prairie Moves: Uppward, SmartyPig, Jonathan Tvrdik & more

    (Photo by Peter Mooney via Flickr.) 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,…

  • Sunday Video: Jeff Bezos’ Regret Minimization Framework

    Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday weekend. Given that next weekend is the New Year, I thought this video is perfect as we ponder what our resolutions will be. When you think about new endeavours for 2011, I can’t think of a better way to frame the questions than with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’…

  • Happy Holidays from the Silicon Prairie News Team!

    It’s that time of year folks – time to mail out cards to everyone we know, and wish everyone happy holidays! This year the Brightmix, Silicon Prairie News and Tripleseat (Omaha office) teams decided to join forces for both the physical cards and the interactive version. The result of the latter is a “photo hunt”…

  • Prairie Moves: Joe Petsick, eCreamery, Clint! Runge & 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.

  • Annual Report: Big Companies Techies Can Spin Off From

    (Photo by Ernest Semerda via Flickr) Over this next month, we’ll continue to expand on each of the items that are to be included in the upcoming “Silicon Prairie Annual Report,” which we’ve described as a “look back at the previous year in the Silicon Prairie region, taking into account such metrics as company formations,…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Jason Fried of 37signals

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the eighth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Big Omaha 2009 returnee Jason Fried, co-founder of Chicago-based 37signals, makers of small business collaboration and CRM software. Fried is also the co-author of the New York Times best seller “REWORK.” Fried’s talk…