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  • Sunday Video: Word Lens

    On their Facebook page this past Friday, Archrival posted the following video with the update: “We’re speechless. We know we still don’t have a jetpack, but now are we in the future?” (see: facebook.com/archrival). The video is the promotional video for a new iPhone app called Word Lens. These past three days there’s been quite…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Joel Spolsky, Viget, 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.

  • Editor’s Notebook: The ‘Contributor Guide’ – Defining our focus

    In a post earlier today, I welcomed a new batch of writers to the Silicon Prairie News team: “Welcome our new writers: Adams, Ellingson, Beenken & Rosol.” With these writers aboard, we now have 10 individuals across five cities to cover the activity on the Silicon Prairie. But what does that mean? As in, what…

  • Prairie Moves: Tripleseat, TAI, New BLK & 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.

  • Sunday Video: Groupon founder Andrew Mason on Charlie Rose

    In the wake of turning down a reported $6 billion offer from Google, Groupon’s founder Andrew Mason gave his first in-person video interview to Charlie Rose this past Thursday. The interview, which runs for about 23 minutes touches on all facets of Groupon, but it isn’t until the 20th minute in which the Google deal…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Venture Hacks, Jolie O’Dell, 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.

  • Join our team! Now hiring: Editor

    A few weeks ago, I published an “Editor’s Notebook” post recapping the previous week’s content on Silicon Prairie News. In the post I made the admission that due to time and resource contraints we had dropped the ball on a number of stories from the previous week. Week after week, this continues to be the…

  • Wanted: Daredevil Spring Intern

    We’re gearing up to do big things in 2011 and we’re looking for a college student to join our team from January through May. In that time period, we’ll be significantly increasing our content production, so we need a student who is either in journalism school or has a passion for writing. We’ll also be…

  • Annual Report: Culture of Risk Taking

    Over the next several weeks, we’ll expand on each of the items that are to be included in the inaugural “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, product releases and developments, investment and M&A…

  • Prairie Moves: Matt Secoske, NUtech Ventures, John Wirtz & 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…