October 5, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha QuickCal 3.0 is flying off the virtual shelves, and it has a Twitter tip to thank — in part, at least — for the uptick in sales. QuickCal, the application that takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates those events and tasks in iCal, has seen its daily sales quadruple … read more
August 24, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha On Tuesday, Twilio released the winners of its Twilio Client Developer Contest, and What Cheer's Bumble took home one of the five winning titles. Bumble … read more
May 11, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha One of my favorite parts of Big Omaha takes place not in the main speaking room at KANEKO but in rooms and hallways that lead up to it, which have played host to art installations and exhibits since our first conference in 2009. These artists, who have dedicated tens and hundreds of hours ahead of time, make the event a unique experience for attendees. Last year, for example, Scott Blake exhibited his Barcode Art of Gary Vaynerchuk that … read more
July 16, 2010 by Dusty Davidson
Omaha Momentum is gaining for the first annual Omaha Creative Week, taking place September 5-11 at venues all around Omaha. Modeled after New York Creative Week, the week-long celebration brings together creatives of all walks of life with events ranging from conferences to meetups. The guys over at Minorwhite Studios shot a great video featuring Creative Week… read more
May 26, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha Among Omaha's array of contemporary art exhibitions, growing outlets for entrepreneurship and emerging nightlife scene, residents might find it difficult to sum up their liking of the city in 120 characters or less. One website, however, is celebrating its one-year anniversary of spreading the word of Omaha residents as to why this is an exceptional city to live in. iliveinomaha.com started as a small grass-roots effort by John… read more
March 10, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha At last Thursday's Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit I tracked down two of the individuals behind the two most common phrases of the event: the Twitter hashtag #YourSeat2010 and the blue signs and stickers touting I live in Omaha. First up, Mark Pohl, the chair of this year's Summit and an employee of the Omaha Public Power District. read more
March 5, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location from Slowdown at the Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit aterparty * Interview with Summit keynote Blake Mycoskie coming next week (recorded by Malone & Co) * Omaha YP Summit recap * WordPress Happy Hour coming to Des Moines * New Silicon Prairie News weekly features… read more
January 26, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha We're excited to be a part of this month's PechaKucha Night tomorrow, 8:20 p.m. at Slowdown (729 North 14th). Take a look at the amazing slate of talent that I'm humbled to be joining: Michael Alley (architect), Donovan Beery (graphic designer), Bryan Zimmer and Bill Stott (architects), Steve Hardy... read more
Omaha All images used with permission. The cartoon above is by Omaha cartoonist Jeff Koterba, whose work regularly appears in the Omaha World-Herald. When John Henry Müller of What Cheer was showing me his latest project a ... read more
Omaha So, why do you live in Omaha? John Henry Müller, owner of What Cheer, a local web design studio, hopes to get people to answer that question. And thanks to last week's launch of iliveinomaha.com, John ... read more