June 27, 2011 by Willis Jackson
Kansas City On Saturday, I made it out to the first full-blown Maker Faire put on by anyone other that Make Magazine and O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly Media developed a playbook for organizing and executing the event, and Kansas City was home to the pilot of that program, using the historic Union Station as the venue. The event brought out all kinds of makers, including the Open Source Ecology group … read more
June 27, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Chalk it up to the Big Omaha bump. OK, no, don't chalk it up to that at all. That Foodspotting's Alexa Andrzejewski and Grasshopper's David Hauser made this year's Inc. list of 30 Under 30 has everything to do with Andrezejewski and Hauser's hard work and execution on big ideas, not their work on stage at Big Omaha. But we at Silicon Prairie News … read more
June 27, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today we're pleased to share with the you the sixth video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. In the video above, Ben Huh, founder and CEO of Cheezburger Network, shares his story from his humble beginnings with I Can Has Cheezburger in September 2007 to today, overseeing a network that generates more than 20 million page views per month. Ben said … read more
June 27, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha School's out, but CAMP is in session. Last week, we ran an update on the progress Omaha's CAMP Coworking (1111 North 13th St.) experienced in its first year. Today, we want to provide a visual of the collaborative workspace. Megan Hunt, the owner of CAMP, recently said via Twitter, "Someday I want to tell the whole story of how we moved … read more
June 27, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Altoona It’s clear in the way he addresses the subject of smartphones that GiqueGEAR co-founder Todd Arendt has a tendency to, well, geek out about the devices. But for all his excitement over smartphones, Arendt … read more
June 26, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
The first full week of summer is shaping up to be a fairly quiet one on the Silicon Prairie, with only one event on the radar. On Tuesday, Startup Drinks Des Moines … read more
June 26, 2011 by Michael Stacy
For this week's Sunday Video, we go back to a well that's been a rich source of Sunday Videos in the past: the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and its RSAnimate talks. In the past, we've shared Sunday videos from RSAnimate favorites Daniel Pink on the hidden truths behind what really motivates us and Steven Johnson on … read more
June 24, 2011 by Michael Stacy
The Business Journals have recently published results from a handful of noteworthy On Numbers surveys, providing a quantitative measure of how the cities of the Silicon Prairie stack up against other cities across the country in a few categories of interest. But, before we get down to the numbers, I'll make a disclaimer: I haven't delved into the statistics enough quite yet that I can speak on them with any sort of authority. So I'm not claiming causality or correlation, nor am I espousing any theories… read more
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