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  • Prairie Moves: Bryan Findell, Chris Larkin, Tim Siedell & 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…

  • Editor’s Notebook: The week that was…

    Since coming on board full-time at Silicon Prairie News in June 2009, I can’t remember a busier content production week than last week. A busier week? Yes. (See: Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, content lag.) But a week in which every day we had to choose what stories we’d cover because we didn’t have the bandwidth…

  • Sunday Video: Derek Sivers on ‘How to start a movement’

    This is a quick and fun video for this week, which many of you may have seen but I can watch over and over again. It’s a talk that Derek Sivers gave at TED, where he describes the “first follower” as the most critical component of a movement: The first follower is actually an underestimated…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Software by Rob, A Smart Bear, 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.

  • disRUPT: Nanotech research is tiny, but important to IT development

    (Left: Christian Binek of University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Photo by Marlon Wright.) Size does matter when it comes to electronics. Consumers seem to prefer ever-smaller devices, but making things too small could lead to major technological problems in roughly 10 years. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are working on both aspects of the size issue.…

  • Building the Foundary – Part II: The Future

    (Left: Hayneedle’s Doug Nielsen, Steve Dee, and Jason Goldberger) In less than six months, the Foundary has gone from a proposed idea to a successful home flash-sale site standing alone but also shining a light on another former startup company, Hayneedle. There are distinctions between the two sites and looking forward, the team at the…

  • disRUPT: NeHII works toward better healthcare database

    (Left: Deb Bass of the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII). Photo by Marlon Wright.) Despite repeated calls for a digital healthcare records system, paper usually runs the show. You fill out the insurance form multiple times. Your critical records might be at another location across town. If you experience a health crisis, emergency room doctors…

  • Prairie Moves: John Gustafson, Jordy Clements, Fierce Robot & 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…

  • Building the Foundary – Part I: The Backstory

    (Left: Hayneedle’s Jason Goldberger and Steve Dee.) Although it’s been just over a month since it launched, the Foundary, a home flash-sale site affiliated with Hayneedle, has come a long way from an idea mapped on a white board to a fully functioning website seeing thousands of registered users each day. The Foundary started as…

  • Special Series: disRUPT II

    Over these next few days, we’ll be publishing five stories from the latest special section that ran in The Reader, an Omaha weekly alternative newspaper. This special section, titled disRUPT (left: cover, courtesy of The Reader, photo by Marlon Wright), is a partnership between The Reader, Scott Technology Center and us, Silicon Prairie News. Here’s…