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.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

"By The Numbers (evening update)" - Kansas City's Social Media Command Center, a group of volunteers (above) monitoring the social media activity around the All-Star Game, is providing updates of its activity on the VisitKC blog, one of the organizations behind the effort. As of last night, the team has reviewed nearly 25,000 tweets and responded to more than 1,300 individual requests. - Visit KC

Quotable

"It was one of those interviews where you get finished talking about a company's product, and you wonder aloud, 'Well, THAT makes sense! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?' " - David Rubinstein reporting on Stackify for Software Development Times

New Tech

• Seedlauncher lunched its public beta - seedlauncher.com and Iowa City Press Citizen

Product & Business Updates

• Tripleseat crossed its 400th customer milestone - Tripleseat blog
• T8 Webware changed its name to Banno - banno.com, Press Release, SPN and Des Moines Register
• MindMixer was accepted into the Code for America Accelerator - MindMixer blog and SPN
• Dwolla introduced its Integration Portal, a new home for its API - Dwolla blog

Mentions

• Neighbor.ly - Crowdfunding Civic Infrastructure? The Next Big Thing - Huffington Post
• Stackify - Stackify Gives Devs a Crack at the Production Server - Software Development Times
• Locusic - Locusic Web Radio Features Free Local Music For Local Listeners - Hypebot
• Tikly - Ticketing Service Tikly Aims To Respect Bands, Venues - Techli
• Tikly - Emma Peterson Of Tikly Talks Cheap Tickets And Des Moines Startup Culture - Killer Startups 
• Dan Stratman of Airport Life - Meet A KC All Star Entrepreneur: Dan Stratman of Airport Life - KC SourceLink
• Intevli - Mobile App intevli Knocks One Out of the Park During First Fridays - Think Big Partners
• A Case Study: How Apprentices Can Help Creative Firms - Nebraska Entrepreneur

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

• Rosedale’s Wi-Fi idea deserves another look - Kansas City Star
• Is Google Fiber Planning To Expand Beyond Kansas City? - Silicon Beat
• Kansas City Launches Gigabit City Summit - Google Connects KC

Blogged

• The bumpers in your life. - Ben Milne
• The Crowdfunding Gold Rush, Continued - Seedlauncher
• Learning to Hack: the Tipping Point - Bryan Helmig
• Cheeseballing Chad (Video) - Don't Panic Labs
• Just Run - Brett Neese
• For ShareWhere, The BIZ Is Where It's At - Business Innovation Zone

Misc.

• Think Big Accelerator program application deadline one month away - Think Big Partners
• Iowa Gov. Branstad launches Iowa promotional campaign with CNBC's "Top States Twitter Battle" - The Iowa Republican

Credits: Photo from Visit KC