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  • SXSW: Zach Hunnicutt talks social media, new technologies on the farm

    Twitter users tweet, but in August 2009, fifth-generation Nebraska corn, popcorn and soybean farmer Zach Hunnicutt and other agriculturalists began “mooing” to support dairy farms and their struggle to survive due to low milk prices. #Moo became a top-10 trending topic on Twitter for about eight hours one afternoon, resulting in more than 500,000 unique…

  • SXSW: Scenes from Austin

    If you’re in Austin, I hope you’ll be joining us for our Silicon Prairie Party Presented by Hollrback in just a few hours. If you can’t make it, check back tomorrow for pictures of the event, which will be posted towards the latter part of the day. In the meantime, below are some of the…

  • Zaarly goes live at SXSW – TechCrunch interviews Bo Fishback

    TechCrunch just broke the news that the highly-anticipated mobile app of South by Southwest Interactive, Zaarly – the startup that raised a $1 million seed round two weeks after it was founded – has now gone live with a beta (update 3:15 p.m.: not yet officially launched, but Zaarly has gone live at SXSW). “We…

  • Context is everything: Hollrback rolls out Android app on eve of SXSW

    Hollrback, a startup that’s made “context is everything” its mantra, illustrated an appreciation for the importance timing today with the release of its latest mobile offering. The context-based contact management system unveiled its Android app today (left, screenshots from market.android.com), on the eve of South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “We’re all about meeting…

  • Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW

    (Photo from Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski via Flickr.) South by Southwest Interactive isn’t a conference. It isn’t a summit. It isn’t a networking event. And it certainly isn’t a party. Nope, it’s all of those things, and because of that, it makes it one of the best places for a startup to launch or market…

  • Omaha’s #ChevySXSW Roadtrip Challenge team hits the road

    For the second year in a row, Chevy is teaming up with South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) to conduct the ultimate road trip to Austin. This year’s competition will have a particular Omaha flavor with a team from Omaha being one of the 10 teams from nine different North American cities driving to Austin. As…

  • Announcing the ‘SPN at SXSW’ page

    As we hinted in a post a few weeks ago, saying that we had a “special project cooking up in the Silicon Prairie News office” for South by Southwest Interactive, we’re now ready to release it to the public. We present the “SPN at SXSW” page. In an effort to showcase the individuals and companies…

  • SXSW: Silicon Prairie Party Presented by Hollrback, March 13th

    We couldn’t be more excited to announce the final details of our party at South by Southwest Interactive: the Silicon Prairie Party Presented by Hollrback on Sunday, March 13th. With the addition of Hollrback as our title sponsor, we have some fun things in the works. Launched out of Omaha this past January, Hollrback is…

  • Who’s going to SXSW? (Let us know in the comments!)

    We have a special project we’re cooking up in the Silicon Prairie News office to release in the coming weeks as South by Southwest Interactive approaches. As a hint, it’ll be a page to connect attendees heading down from the Silicon Prairie region as well as a place to follow the action of Silicon Prairie…

  • Announcing the Silicon Prairie Party at SXSW 2011 – Join us!

    Last Wednesday about 40 people from Omaha and nearby cities gathered at Slowdown for the Omaha stop on South by Southwest Interactive Town Hall tour. Tammy Lynn Gilmore and Monica Sack of SXSW were the hosts of the night, and the following day they put out a great blog post over on SXSW’s website: “We…