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  • Megan Hunt & Eric Downs set to open CAMP coworking space

    Being self-employed, Megan Hunt and Eric Downs began businesses within the comfort of their own homes. Hunt – a bridal designer, blogger and best friend – started her vintage felt and button design company Princess Lasertron out of a floor-to-ceiling windows apartment in a renovated high school. She then transported her business into an 8-foot-8…

  • Creative coworking space CAMP nearing completion

    With progress reports from the future tenants becoming more and more frequent – on princesslasertron.com and Twitter – we thought it was time to catch up with CAMP owner Megan Hunt, a.k.a. Princess Lasertron, for our first look at the creative coworking space. CAMP, located in North Downtown’s Mastercraft building, is expected to open in…

  • Timothy Kephart of Graffiti Tracker speaks at Gov 2.0 Expo

    Earlier this week, Timothy Kephart, founder of Omaha-based Graffiti Tracker, spoke at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo co-produced by O’Reilly Conferences and UBM TechWeb. Timothy’s talk, Graffiti Tracker: Utilizing Data to Fight Crime, gives an excellent overview of the problem and opportunity his company addresses. Here’s more on Graffiti Tracker from the Expo’s schedule…

  • From blog to book: The story behind Nerdy Thirty

    Thanks to Nerdy Thirty by Wendy Townley for sponsoring Silicon Prairie News this week. This sponsored post was written by Wendy Townley. | I began blogging in 2003 as a way to have a little fun with my writing. The ability to put fingers to Macintosh and share my thoughts to the world with a…

  • Shout! Weekly releases its inaugural ’30 Under 30′ list

    Shout!, Omaha’s new alternative weekly newspaper, released its inaugural 30 Under 30 list yesterday. In the publication, the list’s authors, Chris Larkin and Lisa Martin, described the effort as “a way to present stories of the achievements and aspirations found in the up-and-coming segment of Omaha.” Congrats to all those recognized, and a special congrats…

  • SPN interviews Princess Lasertron, a.k.a. Megan Hunt

    Yes…we were finally able to connect with the Princess Lasertron at last night’s Omaha TweetUp! Princess Lasertron, aka Megan Hunt, talked with us about the many exciting things going on with her business including her new site launch and redesign by none other than Eric Downs of DownsDesign. The site was released a few days…

  • ShirtUp / Omaha Tweetup tomorrow

    The “un-conference” referred to above is, of course, BarCamp Omaha. The tees in the ad, as well as the ad itself, were designed by BarCamp team member Eric Downs of Downs Design. Tomorrow night, come give Eric and the rest of the BarCamp Omaha team (Matt, Megan, Dusty, and Jeff) a high five for a…

  • Omaha Tweetup #4…this Thursday!

    So folks, it’s that time again!  Be sure to be at Nomad Lounge, this Thursday from 5:30 on for the next Omaha Tweetup! Sponsored this month by Big Omaha! WHERENomad Lounge (11th & Jones St., just south of the Old Market) WHENThursday, April 9th @ 5:30pm Spread the word to Twitter users afar, and if…

  • Music Arsenal launches RockDex at SXSW

    Our friend Jimmy Winter over at Music Arsenal announced the launch of RockDex!  RockDex is a site where artists can see the amount of “internet chatter” about them and learn new ways to increase the buzz. RockDex scours the internet to find current trends about an artist and scores a band based on data from…

  • Next Omaha Tweetup!

    Mark the calendars!  The next Omaha TweetUp is set for Tuesday February 3rd! A TweetUp?  What’s that you ask?…Well a TweetUp is defined as: “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service.” That being said, check out the Omaha TweetUp site that Mr. Eric…