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  • In fifth year, BarCamp Omaha draws largest, most eclectic crowd

    A stroll around The Slowdown on Saturday, midway through the afternoon portion of BarCamp Omaha, revealed speakers serving up a smorgasboard of presentations about personal passions. In one corner, a group enjoyed a look into the life of a “mompreneuer.” A few feet away, another audience tuned in to an address about the joys of…

  • Prairie Moves: Mike Hays, Rachel McClung, Allrecipes.com and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Save the Prairie! Play the Silicon Prairie News Game by SlouchCouch

    All is lost. Or is it? There’s only one little creature left that can save the Silicon Prairie as we know it and he’s standing at 14 inches tall with a feisty left paw … duh duh duh … Analog the Prairie Dog, it’s up to you! Green aliens. Spider-like aliens. Cows. Silos. UFOs. Laser…

  • Looking to scrobble Turntable.fm? Kangas has you covered.

    First, for those not familiar with the obscure term, according to Wikipedia, scrobbling is the act of “publishing one’s music-listening habits via software.” This software, one of the most popular ones being Last.fm …

  • Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT: Hollrback demoing at SF New Tech

    Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT tonight to watch Gabe Kangas of the Omaha-based startup Hollrback give a 5-minute demo his mobile contact management app at SF New Tech, a monthly meetup with more than 5,000 members. In preparation for tonight’s event, I caught up with Kangas today by email. He said that he had…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Wrapping it all up (Video)

    As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we’ve…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Hollrback demo by Gabe Kangas (Video)

    Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is “a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you.” Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas’ presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind…

  • Hollrback gets big win over Big Give Media in TechStars’ Startup Madness

    Give Hollrback this: the Omaha-based startup seems to have a flair for the dramatic. For the second time in two rounds of TechStars’ Startup Madness tournament, Hollrback advanced with a win by an oh-so-slim margin. With the narrow victory, Hollrback advanced …

  • Hollrback marches on in TechStars Startup Madness tournament

    Thanks to a buzzer-beater in overtime — or the online polling equivalent thereof — Hollrback is moving on. The Omaha-based startup advanced to the third round of the Startup Madness Tournament, an NCAA tournament-style contest that started with…

  • Hollrback moves forward in TechStars’ Startup Madness

    Hollrback is one win away from the Sweet 16. Of sorts. The Omaha-based startup advanced yesterday to the second round of the Startup Madness Tournament, an NCAA tournament-style contest pitting 64 startups in competition for a grand prize worth more than $25,000. Startups advance through the…