Silicon Prairie News

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Published every Tuesday, 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact me at danny@siliconprairienews.com.

Venture Capital

• Nebraska Global opens in Lincoln – nebraskaglobal.com

Media Mentions

• Joe Petsick of Proxibid (Omaha) interviewed by Beyond the Pedway: Pioneering The Live Online Auction Industry – With Joe Petsick, Co-Founder of Proxibid.com
• Nebraska Global (Lincoln) covered by Nebraska Entrepreneur: Nebraska Global venture capital fund unveiled, website goes live
• Dwolla (Des Moines) picked up press coverage and mentions by CNET: Cash is dead, says Dwolla, PC Magazine: Dwolla Kicks Off Social Network Payments Via Twitter, Facebook, Kiplinger: The Cashless Lifestyle Catches On, Silicon Angle: PayPal Stays Ahead of the Curve as Dwolla Threatens Its Market, and MWD: My Friends @Dwolla Kick Off: Good Bye PayPal
• Tim Siedell, a.k.a. @BadBanana, (Lincoln) interviewed by Omaha World-Herald: Badbanana unpeeled: Meet the funniest guy on Twitter and his book was reviewed on the Oxford University Press blog: Bad Bananas Make Great Stocking Stuffers
• eCreamery (Omaha) recommended by Teen Vogue: Holiday Gift Guide 2010: 50 Gifts Under $50 and on the NBC Today Show: Holiday Guide
• Clint! Runge of Archrival (Lincoln) spotlighted by the How Design blog: Designer Wish List by Clint! Runge
• “Nebraska’s Innovation & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem" report was recapped by Nebraska Entrepreneur: Report outlines state’s economic strengths, weaknesses

Product Development

• Dwolla (Des Moines) released their developer API docs – via dwolla.org/blog
• Hudl (Lincoln) released a new athlete profile – via hudl.com/blog

Misc.

• Hudl (Lincoln) expanded its board of directors, adding Jim McClurg as director and chairman and Jim Mora Jr. as director
• Beer && Code Omaha, founded by Andy Peters (Omaha), has been the inspiration for this Reddit post: Would (beer && code) work in Seattle?
• Scott Bishop of Bozell (Omaha) authored a Mashable post: 6 Ways to Market on Foursquare Without a Location
• Drake University (Des Moines) fancied up their foursquare page, foursquare.com/drakeuniversity – via twitter.com/drakeuniversity
• Tim Siedell, a.k.a. @BadBanana, (Lincoln), released his latest Huffington Post column: Congressional Approval Numbers Still Ahead of That Adam Sandler Flick
• Bozell (Omaha) moved into the Old Market district: Bozell moving east to a more creative space
• Brandon Herbel of Make Believe Clothing Co. (Omaha) released their winter clothing line: makebelieveclothingco.com
• Omaha and Des Moines named #2 and #5, respectively, on MarketWatch’s 2010 list of U.S. “Best Cities for Business"
• Hope Wood, wife of Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News (Des Moines branch), was featured by the Des Moines Register for her recently released ebook "Law School Mom": The law school mom: Hope Wood