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  • Phone2Action calls in win at SXSW Accelerator

    Turns out Kansas City, Mo.-based Phone2Action truly was dialed in at the South by Southwest Interactive Accelerator on Tuesday. The mobile advocacy startup outdueled seven early-stage companies to win the News Technologies category after two rounds of presentations. Co-founders Jeb Ory and Ximena Hartsock will head home with $4,000, two tickets to next year’s SXSW…

  • Applications for SXSW Accelerator due Nov. 9

    Just more than two weeks remain for startups to apply for the fifth annual SXSW Interactive Accelerator. Applications are due Nov. 9 for the Accelerator, a competitive pitch event featuring 56 startups with innovative new products and services, which takes place March 11-13 during South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Forty-eight companies will be…

  • SXSnippets: Keeping people of the Prairie from feeling home alone

    Last year around this time, I felt an awful lot like Kevin McCallister. When South By Southwest Interactive rolled around, my fate mirrored that of the precocious protagonist from “Home Alone.” Silicon Prairie News team leaves town. Michael stays in town. Michael is home alone. And, once the novelty of using dad’s aftershave and eating…

  • South by Southwest PanelPicker now open for submissions

    (Photo by Josh Mishell via Flickr.) Do you have a research paper, best practice, or reflection on business that you’ve been looking to share with the world? More specifically, do you have a message that would make a positive…

  • 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…

  • Seven tips to tackle South by Southwest Interactive

    With less than a day remaining until the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, it’s time to think about how to tackle this massive event. Now, I’m no pro with just one SXSW Interactive Festival under my belt (2009), but I’m excited to return to Austin this year knowing what to expect…

  • South by Southwest is right around the corner

    It’s hard to believe that this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is just around the corner, like two and a half weeks around the corner! It seems like we just got back from the 2009 event, but we’re excited to hop on the plane to Austin! This year, we’ll not only be covering the…

  • Here comes 2010!

    It’s crazy to be writing 2010! How’d we go from worrying about whether or not our lights would stay on at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2000 to Jan. 1, 2010 already?! This past year has been one of amazing growth and development for Silicon Prairie News. Looking back at the growth over the past…

  • It’s official! SPN speaking at SXSW!

    Photo by chasingfun on Flickr. Updated photo credit 11/24 Fans, friends, family and prairie dogs alike! Here we go…we’re unbelievably thrilled to announce that SPN has been accepted to speak on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive 2010! It all started earlier this year when we came up with the idea of assembling a…

  • SXSW 2010 panel voting is live!

    South by Southwest Interactive…a phrase you’ll hear us talking about a lot over the next few months! This is one event we suggest you plan on attending… South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that takes place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW began in 1987 and is…