April 16, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City, Mo. app maker OneLouder cooked up two apps worthy of Webby Awards this year, earning recognition from the annual event that aims to celebrate "the best of the web." The company's BaconReader, an Android-only app for reading the social news site reddit, is one of five nominees in the mobile and apps category "social (tablets and … read more
April 15, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Raikes School of Computer Science and Management on Friday will spotlight the work of its capstone students in its annual Raikes Design Studio Project Showcase. The event, which takes place in the Kauffman Center on the university's campus, begins at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation by tech industry veteran … read more
April 12, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Our inaugural Big Kansas City event is in the history books, but don't think you won't be able to relive the two days of inspiration and education delivered by our speakers. We're excited today to release videos of the 16 entrepreneurs and innovators who took the stage March 27-28 in Hangar 9 at the National Airline History Museum. From the welcome message by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse to the startup advice … read more
April 11, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Two weeks ago we were entering the second day of our inaugural Big Kansas City conference in the National Airline History Museum, a venue that proved to be our most Instagram-worthy venue yet. Since then, we've rounded up more than 4,500 pictures from our photographer Kenny Johnson and nearly 350 Instagram photos by our attendees. We whittled Johnson's work down to 765 pictures and kept each … read more
April 9, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Kansas City, Kan. was the first to get Google Fiber, but who'll be the first to get Google Glass? The latest innovation from the internet giant could hit each corner of the Silicon Prairie later this year through its Glass Explorer program, an invite-only opportunity to purchase the $1,500 device. Last year, Google gave developers an exclusive pre-order opportunity, and earlier this year, some of those developers got to play around with the device—Lincoln, Neb.-based Android developer Israel Knight was one of them. In February, came the general public's first chance at Glass. Individuals who wanted to test out the device were invited to post a message … read more
April 9, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Portland-based designer, Midwest native Aaron Draplin is coming to an Omaha music venue April 16. Billed by the event organizers, AIGA Nebraska, as a "suckerpunch of a talk," Draplin plans to speak about the "highs and lows of a ferociously independent existence" and share a "couple tall tales from his so-called career in the cutthroat world … read more
Des Moines Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne on Sunday published a personal blog post that shared his latest perspective on Bitcoin, a virtual currency that's once again hit the headlines and public interest. His company is involved in the Bitcoin ecosystem as it's used to … read more
April 4, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Singly, a San Francisco startup co-founded by Iowa resident Jermie Miller, is making a stop in the Silicon Prairie next week as part of its cross-country APIs & IPAs tour. "This is not about marketing, and it's not about sales," the event's website states. "APIs & IPAs is focused on community. We want to support your local tech community, and we want to get to know developers everywhere." … read more
Des Moines Two-year-old online ticketing service Tikly has lost its chief technology officer and chief marketing officer, the Des Moines Register reported today. Brian Hemesath, who developed the current version of the site, left Tikly to focus on VolunteerLocal, another tech company in which he has … read more
April 4, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls With Opening Day just days away, Major League Baseball called on a Midwest design firm last Friday to create an infographic that would celebrate baseball's big day. "The challenge was could we turn around an infographic by Tuesday afternoon even though we wouldn't get the data until Tuesday morning," Lemonly founder John Meyer said … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.