January 18, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines The deadline is fast approaching for round one of our upcoming Creative Capital Pitch Session. Entries for this round, which include a 60 second video pitch submitted via YouTube, close at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, January 19. The submission form can be found... read more
Omaha We recently put out a call for you to send us your suggestions for iPhone apps built on the Prairie, thinking that they would make great stocking stuffers. We couldn't help it. Danny was inspired. Submissions started rolling in ... read more
Des Moines The next Creative Capital Pitch Session will be held on Thursday, Jan. 28 at Dos Rios is Des Moines. This will be Silicon Prairie News' first event held in Des Moines and we’re excited to work with two ... read more
Des Moines One band that is taking an innovative approach to the process of making an album is The Nadas [link thenadas.com], Des Moines-based roots rocker, in their new project Almanac [link thenadas.com/almanac]. I recently had the chance ... read more
Omaha BitMethod, based in Des Moines, developed BNO News' iPhone push application, which was recently rated one of the Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009 by ReadWriteWeb. iPhone/iPod Touch apps developed on the Prairie Next week, Aaron Onken will ... read more
Des Moines Performance Marketing (PM), a West Des Moines-based creative agency, decided to take a different approach to celebrating their 10-year anniversary. Rather than throwing a big celebratory party, they took a staff poll to find ideas that would give ... read more
Des Moines Dwolla, a web-based money transfer system based in Des Moines, officially emerged from beta today with the launch of the public system in Iowa. I first interviewed their founder, Ben Milne, at Highlight Midwest and learned about their product ... read more
Des Moines Last Friday, Des Moines’ creative class success story, SMASH, announced that they were changing names and dividing their clothing store from the web design and screen printing business. The store is now RAYGUN (Twitter: RAYGUNshirts) and the custom ... read more
Des Moines I recently caught up with Mike Ferrari, one of the founders of West Des Moines-based SmartyPig. Silicon Prairie News first interviewed Mike in December 2008, and a lot has changed for the online banking startup in the last year: ... read more
Des Moines When the SPN team was in Des Moines this week, we took the opportunity to stop by Lava Row's offices to talk with Nathan T. Wright and Hillary Brown about what's new. Nathan told us about the ... read more