Prairie Moves: Thursday edition, Nate Custard, Scriptito and more
Large photo by CameliaTWA via Flickr, small photo by Chris via Flickr, graphic by Danny Schreiber
With the help of the "Xzibit Yo Dawg" meme, welcome to the Thursday edition of Prairie Moves, just like Tuesday but published on Thursday. There's an increase of startups, projects, people, events and overall activity in the Silicon Prairie that we've decided to move this series to twice a week (a small sign the region's community of entrepreneurs, creatives, investors and other stakeholders is growing).
We plan to make more changes, such as possibly adding an editors' column in the introduction or show a list of the top five posts from the past few days. Look for experiments and changes in the future, and if you have any feedback on how we can continue to increase the value of this series, please let us know with a comment below or an email to editor@siliconprairienews.com.
What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Thursday, 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.
Career Moves
- Joe Smiedeskamp, Nate Custard (@natcustard) and Dan Gibson joined Archrival (Lincoln, Neb.) as a developer, creative and creative, respectively
New Tech
- Blue Compass Interactive (Des Moines) launched the Des Moines Clinic Finder - bluecompass.com and desmoinesclinics.com
New Creative
- Corporate 3 Design (Omaha) did the identity, brand positioning and site development of ParentSavvy.com - necreative.typepad.com and parentsavvy.com
Product/Business Development
- Scriptito (Omaha) released an experimental, "paginated" reader that is focused on a great reading experience - blog.scriptito.com
- Vineme (Des Moines) upgrade to enable uploading of photos from Facebook, Flickr - SPN post
- Shoplr (Ames, Iowa) sent out an update on its iPhone app, merchant client development and included a promotional video - Shoplr Newsletter
- Syncbak (Marion, Iowa) expanded its headquarters into a 3,000-square-foot office space - syncbak.com
- Mobile Symmetry (Fairway, Kan.) and TARGUSinfo (Vienna, Va.) launched the "next generation caller name for mobile phones" - businesswire.com
Media Mentions
- 9 Blue Labs (Des Moines) - Des Moines Register: "9 Blue Labs network to help tech dreamers launch products"
- MindMixer (Omaha) - The Reader: "Shedding light on city development: Early success with online involvement tool EngageOmaha.com"
- Graffiti Tracker (Omaha) - Daily Sound: "Ganging up on Graffiti: Santa Barbara officials go hi-tech to stop vandalism"
- SmartyPig (Des Moines) - Fox Business: "New Ways to Save Money and Vacation Listings by Owner"
- Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) - Business Insider: "19 Powerful New Additions to SBT’s Ecommerce List"
- Bo Fishback of Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) - Entrepreneur.com: "From Business Idea to Successful Startup in Three Months"
- QuickCal (Omaha) - AppStorm: "Our Favorite Apps: What the AppStorm Crew Couldn’t Live Without"
- Phenomblue (Omaha) - iMedia Connection: "iMedia 25: 2011 West Coast Agencies to Watch"
Misc.
- T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) will be presenting at Finovate Fall - twitter.com/t8webware
- 9 Blue Labs (Des MOines) has begun to take early submissions - 9 Blue Labs Submission
- Dwolla (Des Moines) is providing 10 sponsorships to Startup Weekend Omaha - dwolla.com/blog
- Verizon Wireless announced an August 18 launch day for 4G LTE in Omaha and Council Bluffs - news.vzw.com
- ConAgra (Omaha) highlights on SmartBlog on Social Media: "Andy’s Answers: How ConAgra is creating online communities for its diverse brands"