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What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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

• Colin Conces (Omaha), formerly of Minorwhite Studios (Omaha), launched a commercial and editorial photography business - colinconces.com

New Tech

• Red Nova Lab's (Westwood, Kan.) WebReady, a service that creates high-end self storage websites, is set to launch - rednovalabs.com
• NotifyWorks (Des Moines), an automated email system that keeps its users and their clients on top of important issues, matters and contracts through a web-based interface, launched - notifyworks.com and SPN post

Product/Business Development

• Lucosic (Des Moines) began its private beta - lucosic.com/blog
• Kickanotch (Kansas City) partnered with Carter Broadcasting Group to develop and release brand new features on its iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobile apps - prnewswire.com
• T8 Webware (Cedar Falls) issued a press release to announce that it does not infringe on the U.S. patents that digital card design technology provider Serverside Group Ltd. has filed against it - businesswire.com
• Fundle (Iowa City, Iowa) is entering into private beta - blog.fundle.co
• SkyVu Entertainment hit the 12 million mobile app downloads milestone - SPN post

Media Mentions 

• Think Big Partners' Gigabit Challenge (Kansas City) - Kansas City Star: "Race is on to find best ways to use fast Google service"
• Kickanotch (Kansas City) - Mobile DevPro: "RevKick Dashboard Puts Kickanotch App Customers In The Driver's Seat"
• SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) - Touch Arcade: " 'Battle Bears' Turns 2 Years Old, 'Battle Bears Blast' Goes Free to Celebrate Plus First Trailer for 'Battle Bears Royale' "
• Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) - San Francisco Chronicle: "Apps allow you to exchange goods and services"
• Hudl (Lincoln) - Orlando Sentinel: "Five ways use of video online has impacted high school football"
• Phenomblue (Omaha) - Inside Higher Ed: "Verging on App-Aesthetic"
• BarCamp Omaha website by DownsDesign (now merged with Grain & Mortar) (Omaha) - Design Shack: "The Illusive Click: Structuring Designs to Influence Behavior"

Misc.

• Steven Chau, Jacob McDaniel, Mike Hemesath and Clint Andrew Hall are in the judging round for Node Knockout for their app "Guess Friends" (Kansas City) - facebook.com and guessfriends.com
• Think Big Partners' Gigabit Challenge (Kansas City) announces rules, details and prize total ($20,000) - prweb.com and thinkbigkansascity.blogspot.com
• Real Estate Fan Pages (Des Moines) won the Dream Big Central Iowa division of the statewide Dream Big Grow Here contest - SPN post
• Shoplr posted pictures from the recent Dwolla Meetup - facebook.com
• Think Big Partners and bizperc (Kansas City) marked their one-year anniversaries - prweb.com
• Ben Vu of SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) blogged about reaching their latest milestone: "12 Million downloads in 2 years!"