Silicon Prairie News

Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off last night with nearly forty people gathered at What Cheer to pitch ideas and form teams. Twenty ideas were pitched, and from those the following eight teams emerged:

Underground-Omaha.com will be an entertainment hub for local independent musicians and fans to watch video and socialize.

Confurrent.com will be a tool to provide keyword-specific social media feeds to be displayed at events and conferences.

GiftBright.com will be a website that will take the guesswork out of buying gifts for children.

DailyBuzzIndex.com will let users visualize and sort buzz in the news in a whole new way, bringing context to the news cycle.

SoleProvider.com will be a website for helping kids compete on equal footing by providing athletic footwear to kids in need.

CarMinder.com will be a tool to allow car dealerships help car buyers maintain their cars.

And a project yet to be named will let physicians conquer industry-specific challenges in coordinating lunches with medical sales representatives.

The eighth team is also unnamed and will provide software for games across platforms and technologies to communicate with each other and allow multiplayer games between gamers using different devices.

Follow the #swomaha hashtag for all the latest info from the weekend. For those who cannot make the finals tomorrow night, Silicon Prairie News will be live-streaming the event starting at 6 p.m. Sunday.

Photos courtesy Corey Spitzer. For more photos of the event, check out Corey's Startup Weekend photos.