May 10, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines The latest project from the creative team at Des Moines-based application development company BitMethod is a new podcast called "The Flyover Effect." The podcast debuted Monday, and the first episode featured an interview with Tara Hunt, CEO and co-founder of Montreal-based Buyosphere. In this episode, BitMethod's Dan Shipton and Scott Kubie … read more
April 21, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Whether you call it group-buying, online coupons or simply daily deals, the industry popularized on an international scale by Groupon and LivingSocial is getting more and more entrants every week. In the past few months on Silicon Prairie News, we’ve written about local services like Deal Garden out of Omaha and DSM Daily in Urbandale. Adding to that group today is a new player … read more
January 20, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Des Moines-based BitMethod, a mobile and web app tech startup, is jumping in the family van in a couple of weeks to make a one-day trip to Omaha. On their agenda for Tuesday, February 8th is an afternoon seminar discussing the strategies and successful use cases of mobile followed by a meetup to, well, meet folks in Omaha. Details for the talk… read more
January 11, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by ActiveSteve via Flickr.) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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
December 14, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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. read more
November 17, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Thanks to the music of Ryan Stier (Des Moines), I'm now on an internet meme kick. Hence the headline, inspired by former meme and still frequented site: Texts from Last Night. Stier played at BitMethod's open house last night and his setlist consisted of meme song after meme song, such as the recent hits Bed Intruder Song and Double Rainbow… read more
November 15, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Last week, we caught up with BitMethod co-founder Daniel Shipton about Impromptu Studio, the Des Moines coworking space he co-founded in 2008. The reason for the catch up was to reflect on the life of Impromptu as it had closed down on October 29th. Today, we've reached back out to Shipton to learn more about the latest happenings at BitMethod, a web and mobile development firm. Most recently, they relocated their offices to downtown Des Moines – following the close of Impromptu (formerly 300 Southwest 5th Street), BitMethod moved into the 12th floor of a downtown office building located at 418 6th Avenue (left, photo of new location and notations by Daniel Shipton). To celebrate the new office, BitMethod is holding an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, November 16. read more
November 11, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines At the close of last month came the close of a notable figure in the Des Moines entrepreneur and startup community: Impromptu Studio, Des Moines' first coworking space. Founded in August 2008 by Daniel Shipton, now co-founder and CEO of BitMethod, and his wife Abbie, former architect now stay-at-home mom, Impromptu Studio existed not only to house entrepreneurs and startups but to be a part of and create community amongst those individuals. In addition to the daily act of coworking with a diverse set of individuals, they accomplished this goal through… read more
September 30, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines BitMethod, a Des Moines-based web and mobile application development firm, unveiled its latest team project yesterday, the "BitMethod Field Guide to Modern Business." Currently standing at 23 entries, the Field Guide covers topics ranging from gaining leverage – "profit is power" – to remembering to name everything in your office space – "name everything." The guide was created, according to a blog post by BitMethod's CEO Daniel Shipton, to begin committing the company's… read more
August 12, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
The opening day of South by Southwest (SXSW) is a more than seven months away, but preparations for this 10-day event featuring an interactive, film and music festival are well underway. A good majority of the planning is taking place in Austin, Texas, the location of the event since its inception… read more