With the proliferation of smart phones in people's hands today, mobile applications have brought new ways to share our everyday lives. Whether through picture or video, a couple swipes of the finger can publish high-quality content to our social networks and online connections. Instagram, a photo-sharing app on the iOS platform, just passed 10 million users in less than a year. But if you want to bring your photos to life in live-action, I have just the tool for you: Viddy. As the website states … read more

If you haven't heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we've covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you're an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what these spaces really come down to is great people … read more

Feeling buried by email? Scared to wake up in the morning and see how much that unread email number has grown? Dreaming of the day you can reach INBOX ZERO? … read more

If you've ever tried to share a message or get the word out online, you know this isn't an easy task. Today,the internet is littered with noise, clutter and links that aren't relevant to us. Enter Bre.ad, a new kind of promotional URL shortener that is turning our links into "personalized billboards" and allowing us to "toast" a special slice of our life. Bre.ad is a new … read more

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the simple yet effective tool called The Hello Bar. Deemed the "fun, unobtrusive yet … read more

Building products that people want to use and adopt is never easy. But building a product people want to use and still keeping it … read more

My mom raised me to always remember the importance of the thank you note. Whether it was a birthday, graduation, or Christmas, the events were always followed by thank you notes. Although the common thank you has evolved today, only someone as clever as internet humorist and creative, Ze Frank, could find a way to use technology to make thank-yous fun again. Frank … read more

Tickets to the Victoria Secret fashion show. Backstage tour passes with Kelly Clarkson. A free trip to Napa Valley. All of these things and more are possible with Facebook promotions and sweepstakes through Wildfire. The Wildfire app allows you to easily conduct fun, interactive promotions for brand marketing on the Facebook platform. Wildfire is based in Palo Alto, Calif. and has really caught fire (pun intended) in the last 12-18 months. … read more