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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.

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Career Moves

• Carl Zulauf, formerly of TD Ameritrade (Omaha), set to join Lyconic (Omaha) next month – via twitter.com/existensil
• Alex Gates of What Cheer (Omaha) became an official partner/owner of What Cheer – via twitter.com/whatcheer

Media Mentions

• Lucky Bucket (La Vista) selected for GOOD community's "The United States of Good Beer"
• Dwolla (Des Moines) featured by Des Moines University: "Do you Dwolla?"
• Graffiti Tracker (Omaha) given credit in Voice of OC: "Santa Ana to Outsource Graffiti Removal"
• BodyViz (Ames) highlighted in Des Moines Register: "Ames’ BodyViz featured in U.K. Readers Digest," and The Sun, Reader's Digest UK, and The Daily Mail: "BodyViz Makes United Kingdom News"
• Pongr (Des Moines) selected for BostInnovation's "10 High-Tech Ways to Flirt This Valentine’s Day"
• Proxibid (Omaha) mentioned in Omaha World Herald: "Buffett's Coke wagon can be yours"
• Chad Stansbury of Scriptito (Omaha), interviewed by Beyond The Pedway: "The Key Is To Not Let It Impact Your Family Life"
• SkyVu Pictures (Omaha) highlighted by OneClickMac: "Battle Bears -1 for Mac Review"
• Craft.ly (Des Moines) profiled in handmade2.0: "Handmade buying group meets: craft.ly starts" and StartUpLi.st "Craft.ly is the here to stir up the homemade goods industry"
• Megan Hunt of Princess Laserton & CAMP Coworking (Omaha) authored a post on Crescendoh: "A Maker, A Doer of Anything"
• SmartyPig (Des Moines) mentioned in Kiplinger: "What You Need to Know About Pay-As-You-Go Plastic," on Mint.com blog: "Making Saving Fun, Or The Power of Setting Concrete Goals," and in Chicago Tribune: "Finding your financial harmony"
• Tim Siedell of Fuse Industries (Lincoln), a.k.a. @badbanana, featured in Lateral Action: "Inside the Creative Mind of Funnyman Tim Siedell"
• T8 Web (Cedar Falls) mentioned in WCF Courier: "Progress edition: More banks adopting mobile phone applications"

Product Development

• Hollrback (Omaha) provided examples of API Integration, authorizations through LinkedIn accounts, and they're looking for Android app beta testers – via facebook.com/hollrback, hollrback.com, and twitter.com/gabek respectively
• Dwolla (Des Moines) added social sharing components to its HUB pages and created an explainer video: "How your customers pay with Dwolla"
• Gordilla (Des Moines) released its Android app – via gordy.gordilla.com*

New Work

• SkyVu Pictures' (Omaha) introduced the "Talking Huggable" & "Talking Panda" apps – via battlebears.com/blog
• Xilution, Inc. (Urbandale) released Objectility Lite 1.1.0 for the iPad – via objectility.com
• Grasshorse (Winfield) released Poke My Voodoo 2 app – via itunes.apple.com
• Rebel Interactive (Omaha) designed and developed the Toxic Sadie website, toxicsadie.com – via twitter.com/rebelinteractiv
• DownsDesign (Omaha) redesigned the Birdhouse Interior Design website, birdhouseinteriors.com, and the website of Jaymie Jones of Mulberry Lane, jaymiejonesmusic.com
• Archrival (Lincoln) developed and implemented a social campaign for Neebo.com – via facebook.com/archrival
• Oxide Design (Omaha) released new T-shirt designs – via news.oxidedesign.com
• What Cheer (Omaha) updated Jones Bros Cupcakes website, jonesbroscupcakes.com – via necreative.typepad.com

Misc.

• Steve Gordon of RDQLUS Creative (Omaha), Paul Berkbigler of P. Berkbigler Design & Illustration (Lincoln), Desiree Walsh-Spencer of Insomniac Design (Omaha) and Eric Downs of DownsDesign (Omaha) will participate in a panel at AIGA Nebraska presents: Freelance 101 – via nebraska.aiga.org
• James Eliason gave the background story of Craft.ly (Des Moines) on his personal blog, jameseliason.com
• Tyler Peterson of Hudl gave an inside look of how Hudl plays a role in signing day – via hudl.com/blog
• Ryan Downs of Proxibid (Omaha), will be a keynote speaker at Infotec 2011
• Beer && Code's (Omaha) post on Reddit received quite a bit of vote-ups and comments: "The original Beer && Code from Omaha has a site. We should make one."
• Ben Milne of Dwolla (Dwolla) set to present at the Card Forum & Expo, the leading payments event – via paymentssource.com/conferences
• Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle searching for local iPhone app developer for upcoming project – via twitter.com/jimsuttle
• StratCom Headquarters (Bellevue) set to be included in Obama budget – via omaha.com

*Updated Thursday, 12:10 a.m. – When published incorrectly stated app was in "beta." It's now in the Android store.