October 17, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
For today's video, I wanted to share with you the work of Steven Johnson. I became aware of Johnson on Fred Wilson's blog as well as through Dusty and Danny over the last few weeks. Johnson is the author of the recently released book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation," which has received great reviews and… read more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more
October 15, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: - Filmed live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office - A stop by Hudl’s new offices - Out & About: Omaha 10-10-10, Buy the Big O! Show & TEDxOmaha - Pongr launches picture-sharing social game - Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare - Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details - Part One - The entrepreneurial excitement at Peter Kiewit Institute - Halo Institute relocates to Creighton University - Tools for the Trade: About.me… read more
October 15, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha (This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was no hyperbole. That talk, at that event, conspired with that moment to force… read more
October 15, 2010 by Dusty Davidson
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Earlier this month, Danny and I spent a few days in Kansas City at the Startup Organizers Summer. There, we had the privilege of presenting to the group about our experience producing Big Omaha. For this talk, we chose to highlight some of the little things about Big Omaha that we feel make it stand out amongst other events. Our hope was that these startup organizers… read more
October 14, 2010 by John T. Meyer
With the proliferation of social networks and online profiles it's hard to organize your online identity. Every site wants you to use their site as your home base and it's hard to know what links to share and place on your profile. Well, it's time to take control of your identity thanks to sites like About.me and Flavors.me. Both sites offer incredibly slick and… read more
October 14, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event's second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited to hear about his history and the story of foursquare… read more
October 12, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Jon Smith 'Una Nos Lucror') The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of… read more
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