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

"12th Man TV Free Preview: Player Development Center" - Texas A&M's director of sports performance shows off the Aggie's new installation of Elite Form technology (above).

Quotable

"We've found this problem on our campus, and we understand that others have it across the country, so we'd like to do something about it." - A UMKC School of Law professor told the Kansas City Star about a paper he co-authored proposing changes in the foreign student visa policy. - Kansas City Star

Fundings

• Omaha-based SkyVu Entertainment raised an undisclosed amount of seed capital led by Chicago-based Lightbank - PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, All Things D, SPN and Pocket Gamer

Product & Business Updates

• GeoPioneer launched its subscription-based geopolitical analysis - Press Release
• Stackify rolled out a redesigned website - stackify.com
• Proxibid and WeGoLook are partnering to provide item verification for buyers sellers - Press Release

Mentions

• Elite Form - 12th Man TV Free Preview: Player Development Center - Aggie Athletics
• UMKC team proposes changes in foreign student visa policy - Kansas City Star

Gig Bits

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

Google

• High-speed Fiber: A huge opportunity for Kansas City students - Google Fiber blog

Local

• Google talks of Wi-Fi availability - Kansas City Star
• Johnson County cities give high-speed OKs for Google Fiber - Kansas City Business Journal

National

• How Chattanooga Transformed Itself into America's First Gig City - ReadWriteWeb

Blogged

• Higgs Boson of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - Tej Dhawan
• Why MindMixer Codes for America - MindMixer
• Battle Bears Zero: Wil's Finest Teaser - SkyVu Entertainment
• Dawn of the Bricoleurs - Christian Renaud
• MU offers hands-on learning - Jake Halliday
• The Dwolla Hacks From eHD You Need to Know - Dwolla
• Creating a Center for Mobile Media - Gary Kebbel
• Nice Costanza! - Obssesive Software
• App Interviews - RareWire
• In-depth with the Think Big i-Team: Brennan Power - Think Big Partners

Misc.

• Red Nova Labs released its Startup Trivia questions and answers - Venture Fridays
• Need help after a car wreck? There's now an app for that - Kansas City Business Journal

Credits: Video from Aggie Athletics on YouTube