Silicon Prairie News

All images used with permission. The cartoon above is by Omaha cartoonist Jeff Koterba, whose work regularly appears in the Omaha World-Herald...

A few weeks ago, Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska, the organization that has sponsored our CCPS $1,000 prize, asked me for updates from our past contestants. Unable to provide them myself, I contacted the 26 past contestants with three questions: Where are you now with the idea you pitched...

I’m really not much of a wine guy, to be honest, but I do appreciate the occasional glass of cabernet. Consequently, I’m not always the most knowledgeable dude when it comes to choosing the best wine to pair with…waffles, for example. Fort...

When I interviewed Dave Andersen of Êelios the day their location-based personal weather app, WxFix, debuted in Apple’s App Store, I also shot a video of Dave giving a walkthrough of their app. Unfortunately, the sound didn’t work on the video. Sin...

Over these past few months, Michael Ramirez, an ITT Technical Institute visual communications major, has volunteered to help us on our video projects. Today, I’m proud to present to you his greatest yet, the BarCamp Omaha 2009 Montage. ...

For any of you that may have missed out last time, the first-ever installment of Startup Drinks Omaha was a great time. Quite a few people showed up to talk about startup culture, network, and support one another on their various projects and ventures...

The winners of this year’s Midlands Business Journal’s “40 Under 40″ award have been announced, and we’d like to extend a huge congrats to our very own Jeff Slobotski as one of this year’s award recipients! Each year,...

Photo by Andy Beaumont (http://andybeaumont.com/) Fans, friends, family and prairie dogs alike! Here we go…we’re unbelievably thrilled to announce that SPN has been accepted to speak on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive 2010! It...

Today’s Parade magazine, an insert in Sunday newspapers, featured an excellent article on Cleveland in its “Reinventing America” series. Titl...

So from time to time I get really excited about interviews…and this is one of those times. ...

I caught up with Craig Moody while he was bicycling through downtown Omaha…well, we actually set an appointment to talk about an upcoming event the Greater Omaha Young Professionals is conducting this Tuesday evening! ...

A coach’s playbook is his Bible. It’s a tome of knowledge, honed to perfection by decade after decade of stunning victories and crushing defeats. And when it comes time to pen another opus of X’s, O’s and dotted lines, it’s not unusual to draw inspiration from games long since played. In many ...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Will Bushee, the VP of Development of BrightPlanet, one of Sioux Falls’ great technology companies. BrightPlanet has existed in South Dakota for over 10 years and specializes in harvesting high quality content from the deep web. ...

A couple of big props came out last week for Tim Siedell, Creative Director at Lincoln-based Fuse Industries, for his wit behind the Twitter account @badbanna. Thanks to consistently hilarious 140 characters or less statements like the one above, @badbanana has over 160,000 followers...