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  • PrairieCast with guests Nathan T. Wright & Ben Milne

    On yesterday’s PrairieCast, Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and Uppward and Ben Milne of Dwolla joined hosts Andy Brudtkuhl and Geoff Wood. In addition to talking about their own startups, the four of them discussed the startups and events covered on Silicon Prairie News this past week. These include: Hudl, Hollrback, SmartyPig, Xuba, and…

  • PrairieCast: Streaming live at 1:30 pm CST

    Tune in at 1:30 p.m. today for the return of the Silicon Prairie News’ weekly podcast, PrairieCast. Now streaming with live video, PrairieCast is part of the lineup at Webcast One Live and will be available each week here on Silicon Prairie News. This week we feature discussion about new companies, new product launches, and…

  • Uppward releases Radar feature – Uppward Meetupp tonight

    Uppward, an iPhone app which rewards users for airline miles traveled and has the ability to connect users (airline travelers) with each other, released an update yesterday (Version 1.5) that aims to improve the latter of those services. Called the “Radar” feature (left, screenshot from itunes.apple.com), Uppward co-founder Nathan T. Wright says the feature shows…

  • On TechCrunch: Planely – On the Silicon Prairie: Uppward

    In preparation for her upcoming trip to the LeWeb conference this week, TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis tried out the service of one of the conference’s partners, Planely, a web-based app designed to help you connect with other passengers on your flight. After signing up and entering her flight details, a match was made. She learned…

  • Uppward iPhone app released in the App Store

    Image from the iTunes app store. The four person crew behind Uppward announced today that their mobile application aimed at connecting and rewarding air travelers had been approved by Apple and released in the iTunes App Store. James Eliason, Nathan T. Wright and Ben Sinclair of Des Moines along with Nate Becker of Brooklyn, New…

  • Lava Row’s Nathan Wright predicts future of social media

    Social media is at a high point for further developing the business models of major companies and establishing a new means of communication for people to share their thoughts, experience and location. To celebrate, Social Media Club (SMC) Omaha gathered on June 30 at Nomad Lounge for drinks and conversation around the latest trends…

  • Nathan T. Wright takes peek inside Council Bluffs’ Google Data Center

    Nathan T. Wright, founder of Des Moines-based Lava Row, recently emceed the Technology Association of Iowa’s Prometheus Awards. These awards recognize achievement in the technology sector from across the state. As part of his duties, Nathan made a trip to the western border to see Google’s new data center in Council Bluffs. In the video…

  • TAI’s Prometheus Awards highlight innovation throughout Iowa

    Playing on its reputation as the “Academy Awards of Iowa’s high tech industry,” the fifth annual Prometheus Awards took place last night with a Hollywood-style theme, complete with a celebrity photo booth, award statues, plenty of tuxedos, and even a red carpet. The awards are a production of the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) meant…

  • SXSW: Recaps from the Prairie

    There was a good crop of Midwesterners, both past and present, amongst the more than 12,000 (estimated) attendees at the recent South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. During the event, we charted nearly forty of them in a Twitter list, and now more than a week later many of them have offered their…

  • PrairieCast: Using social media for business in Des Moines

    After a one week break, PrairieCast is back for episode #8 with the topic of using social media for business in Des Moines. We featured three guests: Julia Thompson, social media editor of the Des Moines Register, Mike Templeton, an analyst at Catchfire Media and founder of the Social Media Club Des Moines, and Nathan…