Kansas City The Zaarly infographic below, which was first revealed in yesterday's TechCrunch article covering the startup's milestone of $1 million in jobs posted, contains quite a few references to Silicon Prairie cities or events. Starting from the top, here's the run-down of those references: The inforgraphic itself was created by the team at 9 Clouds, a firm co-founded by one of our Silicon Prairie News contributors, John T. Meyer, Omaha and Kansas … read more

The Silicon Prairie, it appears, has more wannabe DJs than a Full House casting call. And recently, an abundance of those aspiring emcees have found an outlet for their spinning skills on Turntable.fm, the Next Big Thing du jour in social music sites. Turntable users, represented by avatars that resemble what Precious Moments cartoons might look like after a weeklong bender spent in a South London … read more

Omaha When covering the announcement of Tripleseat's funding this past December, TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy gave her post a eye-catching title: "Tripleseat: Building the Next OpenTable Outside the Valley System." At the time the article was published, however, Tripleseat didn't quite mirror the business model of OpenTable. While OpenTable serves consumers looking to find and make a restaurant …  read more

Kansas City Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. "Full disclosure," Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, "I asked you if I could invest and we're trying to work something out there. So … read more

Lincoln The second of Nebraska Global's spin-offs released its first product earlier this month in hopes of capitalizing on the "momentum and potential" of the program it enhances. ICORA, an internet software vendor that operates under the umbrella of Lincoln-based venture capital fund Nebraska Global, on June 1 announced the general release … read more

Omaha Omaha's shot at becoming one of Code for America's 2012 city partners ended on Wednesday, when the organization announced 10 finalists for next year's project and Omaha was not … read more

Omaha Soon after we published our Curbwise story yesterday, which covered the site launched by the Omaha World-Herald utilizing data from the Douglas County Assessor's Office, I personally tweeted a challenge … read more

Omaha At the end of May, the Omaha World-Herald introduced the Omaha metro, specifically Douglas County, to Curbwise, a site said to help users understand property valuations. As June marks the start of tax valuation season, this site has refined public data and Census information from the Douglas County Assessor office and created a new way for metro property owners to understand the metrics … read more