April 5, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Urbandale The "Marketplace for Makers" is now open to buyers. Goodsmiths, a website for crafters to buy and sell their handmade goods, on Wednesday opened its virtual doors to shoppers for the first time. Though Goodsmiths co-founders James Eliason and Levi Rosol characterized Wednesday as a "soft launch," in part because Dwolla was the only payment option immediately available — PayPal will be added … read more
October 11, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Des Moines Tweet it from the rooftops: Twitter and Des Moines-based Twittad have settled their squabble surrounding the trademark of the term "tweet." Twittad CEO James Eliason confirmed via email on Monday that his company, a platform for sponsored advertisements on Twitter, has reached an agreement with Twitter over the trademark of "tweet." Twittad, which previously held the trademark, agreed to transfer it in exchange for Twitter dropping its lawsuit against Twittad … read more
July 12, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Eliason Media founder James Eliason and recent technical hire, Levi Rosol, are teaming up to launch 9 Blue Labs on August 1. "At 9 Blue Labs," Eliason wrote in the company's first blog post, "we bring together exceptional ideas with … read more
July 1, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Des Moines As iPhone users logged some 1.5 million miles on Uppward, the Des Moines-based creators of the flight-based social application fielded frequent requests from Android users to bring the app to their platform. Consider those requests granted. And then some. Uppward’s James Eliason announced Tuesday that Uppward will launch a Facebook app and is currently accepting beta testers … read more
June 28, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines On this week's PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Mike Colwell of the Business Innovation Zone and Casesmpl and James Eliason of Eliason Media and Uppward. Discussed this week: Casesmpl launches, Dream Big, Grow Here contest announced for 7/1, Uppward expands to any device that includes Facebook … read more
June 28, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in at 2 p.m. today for Episode 44 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We'll be joined by guests James Eliason of Eliason Media and Uppward and Mike Colwell of the Business Innovation Zone. Both guests have special announcements to make on the show, so be sure to join us live. Additional discussion topics will include LiveOn.com's funding announcement, Amici Espresso as an … read more
February 22, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Our guests today were Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines and James Eliason of Eliason Media, Uppward, and Craft.ly. Discussed this week: - From Green Bein’ Productions in Lincoln, Nebraska: "Kid Command adds 56k users in January" - Connecting with software users in real life: Hatchlings meetup in Austin, Texas, and upcoming Dwolla Meetup - BIZ Luncheon Series… read more
February 21, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22 at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 26 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines and James Eliason of Eliason Media, Uppward, and Craft.ly. Discussion topics will include the BIZ luncheon series, the Hudl iPad app release, software meetups and more. PrairieCast is a live podcast… read more
February 15, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
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 our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com. read more
February 10, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines A new take on online group buying opened beta sign ups today. The website, Craft.ly, is a service aimed exclusively at the "handmade goods" market. James Eliason, also of Eliason Media and Uppward, approached cofounder Levi Rosol, also of ScoreYard and a Silicon Prairie News contributor, with the idea after learning of it through his girlfriend, would-be crafter Julie Deeds. "[The] concept… read more