Silicon Prairie News

Sioux Falls Sioux Falls will soon have a new place for creatives to gather to collaborate and find inspiration. With a goal to "inform and engage the public on the function and impact of design in our community and daily lives," the Sioux Falls Design Center (SFDC) hopes to be a place for creatives to learn and grow. The new space is located downtown Sioux Falls and is slated to open at the beginning of the summer. It will be an all-around creative environment, complete with a long wall … read more

Sioux Falls The South Dakota Technology Business Center announced Thursday that the application process for its 2012 Accelerator is open and will run through March 30. … read more

Sioux Falls It's always exciting to feature our Silicon Prairie companies doing excellent work in the national spotlight. It's also no secret that when you do fantastic work, you'll get invited back for more. This was exactly the case with Sioux Falls interactive agency Blend Interactive and its involvement with John Battelle and the Web 2.0 Summit. Last year, we examined how Blend built the Points of Control Map for the 2010 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The concept of last year's map was showcasing … read more

Sioux Falls In the past two years, we've seen and featured coworking spaces popping up on the Silicon Prairie. The Foundry opened in October of 2009 in Des Moines. CAMP emerged last summer in Omaha, and we recently mentioned Vault Coworking, set to launch in Cedar Rapids this fall. The coworking phenomenon continues to spread across the prairie with the arrival of Meso in Sioux Falls. Josh Aberson, a Sioux Falls entrepreneur … read more

Sioux Falls Infographics are all the rage, and in the coming months, the team at 9 Clouds hopes to capitalize on their popularity with the infographics company, Lemonly. Defined by Wikipedia as a "graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge," they've been popping up everywhere lately: news headlines, daily blogs, company blogs, blog categories and business plans. In fact, it's one startup's core purpose … read more