Prairie Moves: GigaOm, Gizmodo get on the ground with Google Fiber
What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.
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Lead Read
"Google Fiber in the real world: Here’s what’s good and what needs work" and "Ask the First Guy With Google’s Blazing 1000Mbit/s Internet Connection How It Works" - GigaOm and Gizmodo, respectively, present first-hand accounts of the ultra-fast internet connection promised by Google Fiber.
Quotable
"But as residents in parts of Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan., are rushing to sign up to be eligible for ultra-fast hookups for computers and televisions, there is a real risk of the Google rollout creating even more of a digital divide in Kansas City." - A Kansas City Star editorial expresses views also shared by the Connecting For Good group.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Financial Transmission Network Inc. (FTNI), an Omaha-based provider of the receivables management solution ETran, acquired RemitPro, Inc., an Omaha-based remote deposit capture and identity validation services - Press Release
Career Moves
- Adam Feller, formerly the senior graphic designer at the Henry Doorly Zoo, joined DomiKnow
- Brett Neese, a web developer/copywriter from the Quad Cities, joined DomiKnow
New Tech
- Picsure app released - App Store
- Big Wheel Brigade helped develop the front end of the Vizify home page that just launched - vizify.com
- AppShark created a mobile app for Cox Classic - Press Release
New Creative
- Electric Pulp designed the website of Skift, a travel intelligence media company - skift.com
Product & Business Updates
- Nebraska Global's Don't Panic Labs now provides software development resources to other companies - Press Release
- RestingSpot released Version 2.0 - App Store
Mentions
- Coder Dojo - CoderDojo Des Moines teaches kids how to program, be part of digital future - Des Moines Register
- Icon Labs - Tech Spotlight: West Des Moines firm protects 'Internet of things' - Des Moines Register
- Tech startups sprout on Silicon Prairie - Kansas City Star
- Capital Crossroads 2nd Quarter update - Des Moines Business Record
- TechBrew Des Moines - Des Moines Register
- Local startups having hot summer - Columbia Tribune
- Dillashaw: Build a Strong Business, Exit Strategy Will Follow - Nebraska Entrepreneur
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Answering your questions about Google Fiber - Google Fiber blog
Local
- KCK school leaders are gaga over Google - Kansas City Star
- The Star's editorial | Google ramps up, but divide looms - Kansas City Star
- Why isn't GoogleFiber coming to businesses yet? - Kansas City Business Journal
- Group worries Google service may widen Kansas City’s Internet divide - Kansas City Business Journal
- Open house answers questions about Google Fiber - KCTV
- Three Things Google Didn't Address in Their Announcement Last Week - e360 blog
- Free Google Fiber’s a Game Changer - Connecting For Good
- Edges of the Fiberhood - The B&B Podcast
- Michael Bleigh of Divshot created Fiber the Crossroads, a site encouraging the Crossroads district to pre-register for Google Fiber - fiberthecrossroads.org
National
- Chairman's Statement on Google Fiber Kansas City Announcement - FCC
- How Google Plans to Turn a Profit on Kick Ass Gigabit Fiber—Maybe - GigaOm
- 'Other' Kansas City Jazzed About Google's 'Free' Internet - Wall Street Journal
- Google Fiber: Pros and Cons - PC World
- Let’s Not Get Too Excited About Google Fiber… Yet - TechCrunch
- Google Fiber + TV hands-on impressions, photos, and video - The Verge
- Google Fiber gains over 3,900 pre-registrations, more than 20% of 'fiberhoods' clear rally hurdles in first two days - The Verge
- Google Fiber: 20% Of Kansas City, MO Neighborhoods Have Already Met Their Sign-Up Goal - TechCrunch
- Ask the First Guy With Google’s Blazing 1000Mbit/s Internet Connection How It Works - Gizmodo
- Google Fiber in the real world: Here’s what’s good and what needs work - GigaOm
Blogged
- The changing 'Art' of the Iowa startup - Andy Stoll
- Breaking Radio Silence - Fundle
- The $29,000 Birthday Swim for Charity: Water - Big Wheel Brigade
Misc.
- DivvyHQ is holding a launch party Friday - Think Big Partners
- Kansas City IT Professionals announced Big Data: The Future Of Insights - KCITP
- Mars’ departure leaves a hole to fill on DSM's technology scene - Des Moines Register
- Big Wheel Brigade co-sponsored a Good Maker Challenge - workshop.maker.good.is