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What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays (one day late this week) 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.
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Career Moves
- Andrew Wirick, formerly with appendTo, joined GoodTwin Design (Omaha) as a partner in the company with the roles of Leader of Technology, Chief of Finance, and Brewmaster – GoodTwin Newsletter
- Sean Freitag joined T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) as a Software Engineer
- Eric Clymer, formerly an intern with Hudl (Lincoln, Neb.), accepted a full-time position with the company
- Mark Palmer joined Far Reach Technologies (Cedar Falls) as Creative Director
New Creative
- Archrival (Lincoln, Neb.) worked with Sporting Kansas City on the “Red Card” campiagn – archrival.com
Product/Business Development
- Handmark (Kansas City) announced that it was selected by Sprint to create a new personalized data service called On Demand – Press Release
- OneLouder Apps (Kansas City) released TweetCaster 5.1 for Android – Announcement – and FriendCaster 4.0 for Andriod – Announcement
- Proxibid (Omaha) rolled out new features, including bidder and auctioneer service pages – fresh.proxibid.com
- MindMixer (Omaha) launched a site in Los Angeles – Los Angeles Mobility Element and Switchboard: “New website offers opportunity to weigh in on how to fix LA’s traffic“
- Foundry Coworking (Des Moines) moved into a new space in the Liberty Building, 418 6th Avenue, Suite 210, bringing them increased square footage and putting them in the heart of the emerging “Silicon Sixth”
Mentions
- Shift (Des Moines) – WHO TV: “Iowa Apps“
- Think Big Partners (Kansas City) – Kansas City Star: “Many business employees taking the plunge into business ownership“
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City) and Think Big Partners’ (Kansas City) Gigabit Challenge – GigaOm: “Get your gig on, developers!“
- Dwolla (Des Moines) – Read Write Web: “The Mobile Payments Capital of the U.S: Des Moines, Iowa?” and Business Insider: “20 Innovative Startups“
- Zach Leatherman’s (Omaha) BigText jQuery plug-in – NetMag: “20 stunning examples of CSS 3D transforms“
- Locusic (Des Moines) – The Simpsonian: “Locusic to bring local music to the Internet” and College Info Geek: “37 Awesome Streaming Music Sites You Should Check Out“
- Kate Washut of Far Reach Technologies (Cedar Falls, Iowa) – Des Moines Register: “Iowa women to be recognized for innovation“
- OneLouder Apps (Kansas City) – Social Times: “ChannelCaster: Flipboard-like Social News Experience on an Android Phone or Tablet“
- e=mc2 solutions (Lincoln, Neb.) – Nebraska Entrepreneur: “Simplifying IT“
- Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.) – Z6 Mag: “New iOS Game Mystery Ball Embraces Apple’s iCloud“
Blogged
- Hudl (Lincoln, Neb.): “Introducing: Hudl Helps“
Misc.
- Archrival’s (Lincoln, Neb.) site for Red Bull, The Art of the Flight, was an FWA Site of the Day – thefwa.com
- Think Big Partners’ (Kansas City) Gigabit Challenge announced initial advisory board members and judges – thinkbigkansascity.blogspot.com
