Silicon Prairie News

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Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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

• Dave Medema and Brandon Tilus have joined Electric Pulp (Sioux Falls)
• Erik Antonson has joined the Advent IP (Omaha) law firm as a patent agent
• Jason Goldberger has left Hayneedle (Omaha) to become the general manager of Gilt HOME – via homeaccentstoday.com

Product/Company Development

• SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) will be bringing the new BATTLE BEARS games to the Android market thanks to development funds from the new Tapjoy Android Fund – via prnewswire.com/news-releases, blog.tapjoy.com, venturebeat.com and allthingsd.com
• Phenomblue (Omaha) has opened a an office in Los Angeles – via more.phenomblue.com

New Work

• appendTo (Denver-based with Omaha office) released AmplifyJS 1.0, a JavaScript Component Library – via prweb.com/releases
• Jerod Santo (Omaha) created HN Trends, "like Google Trends, but for Hacker News" – via twitter.com/sant0sk1
• T8 Webware (Cedar Falls) designed Regents Bank website, regentsbank.com – via businesswire.com/news
• Fresk (Des Moines) designed Americana Restaurant & Lounge's website, americanadsm.com
• Vine Me (Des Moines) redesigned its homepage, vineme.com

Media Mentions

• SmartyPig (Des Moines) mentioned by the Associated Press: "As bank fees escalate, prepaid cards go mainstream"
• Phenomblue (Omaha) expansion to Los Angeles mentioned in New York Times: "News From the Advertising Industry"
• ProofreadingPal (Iowa City) featured by the Corridor Business: "Proofreading Pal web site takes off"
• Joe Olsen of Phenomblue (Omaha) interviewed by the AIM Institute: Maddi Klasi Live: Joe Olsen, Phenomblue
• Proxibid (Omaha) mentioned by Network Computing: "Managing IT Resources Via Twitter"
• Jay Wilkinson of Firespring (Lincoln) interviewed by Beyond the Pedway: "Building Company Culture By Design, Not Default – with Jay Wilkinson"
• Andy Peters of Ninth Division interviewed by a Bellevue University student
• Timothy Kephart of Graffiti Tracker (Omaha) interviewed by Nonstop News LA: "Tracking Taggers"
• Zaarly (Kansas City) covered by CNBC: "Tech Investors Crowd into 'Crowd Commerce'," KC BizBeat: "Startup Zaarly hits $1M in transactions, with many in Kansas City," Locker Gnome: "Are Local Marketplaces Like Zaarly and Paygr Disruptive?" TechFlash: "Eric Koester on getting deal service Zaarly off the ground," and BetaBeat: "After a Month in NYC, Real-Time Marketplace Zaarly Is Still Dead"
• Jeff Morris of Zaarly (Kansas City) was video interviewed BostonInnovation: "WebInno 30: Zaarly)
• Charise Flynn of Dwolla (Des Moines) mentioned in CU Insight: "Iowa Credit Unions Zero in On Reaching Gen Y"
• Hillary Brown of Lava Row and On Pitch was profiled by The Des Moines Egotist: "Ego Interviews: Hillary Brown"

Misc.

• TMG's (Des Moines) Brian Day answers questions about Dwolla in this TMG video: "Dwolla: Mobile, Online & Social Payments for FIs"
• Tim Siedell aka @badbanana (Lincoln) interviewed Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter – via cannescentrale.com
• Video released of Steve Kiene of Nebraska Global (Lincoln) and Charlie Hull of Archrival (Lincoln) speaking at TalentLNK program
• City of Lincoln created a mobile app, Lincoln Action Center, for reporting city problems – via journalstar.com/news
• Think Big Partners (Kansas City) released a video on its blog: "What is Think Big Partners"
• Oxide Design (Omaha) welcomed Drew Gourley to the team in the company blog
• Archrival (Lincoln) created the video "Aaaarrrrcccchhhhrrrriiiivvvvaaaallll"