June 22, 2011 by Danny Schreiber & Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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 … read more
March 10, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Hollrback, a startup that's made "context is everything" its mantra, illustrated an appreciation for the importance timing today with the release of its latest mobile offering. The context-based contact management system unveiled its Android app today (left, screenshots from market.android.com), on the eve of South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. "We're all about meeting people at the right place and at the right time," Hollrback said… read more
January 6, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Yesterday, when Jimmy Winter of RockDex stopped by our office to say hello, we cut a short video of us demonstrating the use of Hollrback, a contact management iPhone and web app that launched out of Omaha yesterday. Also, Hollrback's creator, Gabe Kangas, published a thorough post yesterday on his personal blog, Gabe's Digital Life… read more
May 28, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Earlier this week, Timothy Kephart, founder of Omaha-based Graffiti Tracker, spoke at this year's Gov 2.0 Expo co-produced by O'Reilly Conferences and UBM TechWeb. Timothy's talk, Graffiti Tracker: Utilizing Data to Fight Crime, gives an excellent overview of the problem and opportunity his company addresses. Here's more on Graffiti Tracker from the Expo's schedule… read more
April 5, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Austin Catching up on Twitter a couple months ago I was reminded just how the small the world can be sometimes. In this instance, I learned that Elias Bizannes, an Australian that I had met at South by Southwest Interactive 2009, had just gained attention for one of his side projects: @EliasBiz: My @startupbus idea got featured on @TechCrunch :) 4:39 PM Feb 11th And within a day, I saw Timothy Kephart of Omaha-based Graffitti Tracker, put his company's support behind it: @TimothyKephart… read more
Omaha It's Cornstalks time again, folks! Wow. It actually occurs to me that this will be the last one of 2009. My, how the year has flown by! Last time (for those of you who weren't there), we heard ... read more
Omaha Usually, I end up waiting until I remind folks about an upcoming Cornstalks event before posting footage from the previous month, but this time I just couldn't help myself. In November, Cornstalks attendees heard from Timothy Kephart of Graffiti ... read more
Omaha One of the benefits of working in BrightMix's office is meeting the clients that stop by for meetings, parties, or the sporadic Friday grill session. It was at the latter of these that I met Timothy Kephart and his ... read more
Lincoln Congratulations to Nancy Williams, Grant Stanley, Nick Knudson, Timothy Kephart, and Andrew Curran, for rounding out our contestant line-up! You can view their one-minute pitch videos below, along with those of the first three contestants announced, Kyle Laughlin, ... read more