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TJ and I will be attending SEMEE tonight. If you have any questions about it then you haven’t been keeping up with your central iowa blogger news… shame on you.
So as to not regurgitate what SEMEE is, read this or this or this or this.
We were not fortunate enough to attend the first meeting but are excited for tonight’s meeting.
See you there!
Tags: SEMEE, Des Moines, Iowa, Business
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So I finally buckled down today to try Safari on Windows. After a discussion with a colleague about how Apple does everything better I thought I’d see if that was true in the browser world. Safari, although residing on my Vista machine, is till very Apple-like. It has the iTunes brushed metal look. The first thing I noticed was that it was FAST and that it renders differently than its rivals. It’s much faster than IE and Firefox, although it is a fresh install and I have a dozen extensions and plugins running on Firefox. It also has the familiar tabbed browsing interface. All in all it’s worth checking out.
Tags: Apple, Safari, Windows, Browser, Web
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Wow, thanks to Doug for alerting me of this amazing plan from the North Central Iowa Alliance…
The North Central Iowa Alliance (NCIA) will pay for health insurance for startup business owners, removing a major roadblock for people who want to start their own business.
I’ll say it again – Wow. I wonder when central Iowa and the next tech hotspot can adopt this principle and get me out of the cube life. But seriously health insurance is one of the biggest hurdles for a startup of any size (especially for us unmarried folks who cannot rely on a spouse’s coverage). If the Greater Des Moines Partnership or IDED could work something up to help us entrepreneurs we could finally go full-time startup mode. Help?
They claim this is ‘first-in-the-nation’, which does not surprise me. Has anyone outside of Iowa heard of anything like this?
I think it deserves a third WOW.
Tags: Health Coverage, Insurance, Startup, Economic Development, Iowa
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According to the iPhone Dev Wiki the hackers have successfully accessed the filesystem of the iPhone. What does this mean? Well – a lot. It seems that they have a phone running without a SIM card which mean the phone is unlocked and can be used without AT&T service. I am still skeptical on whether or not this is the case (and please correct me if I am wrong). We will see as more information is gathered. If you’d like to accomplish this with your shiny new toy, check out the How to Escape Jail tutorial (Brett you should try this and let me know :)).
They’ve also managed to access the iPhone via serial for a full interactive shell.
Oh and how bout those iPhone nano rumors for Q4? Hopefully I was right and we’ll see a new version by the end of the year. Regardless, I’m still waiting for the 2nd Generation.
Tags: iPhone, Apple, Hacks, Nano, Gadgets
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I know, I’m late and other CIB’s also covered it but I thought I’d throw in my three cents.
Fast Company recently named Des Moines, IA (home to tj and i) a ‘City on the Verge‘ of becoming a ‘High Tech Hot Spot‘. Sweet! So now what? There aren’t any cool jobs for many reasons which will limit the ‘High Tech’ growth (pounding out COBOL for 8 hours a day does not constitute High Tech for this guy).
Mitch made a great point that I couldn’t agree more with of which I hinted at when I said we needed more cool jobs. Cool jobs come from exciting companies. Exciting companies are lured through fostering entrepreneurs and funding. Des Moines does the first half of that well. And as Mitch said,
We have the talent and desire here…just not a free flow of capital to “try things out”. Proven business? Great! Here’s a wheel loader full of cash! Business plan for something revolutionary? Next please.
Brett also does not see where they are coming from. If we were living in a fast growing tech city don’t you think the bloggers would know about it. More on this as we try to accomplish the second half …
Tags: Des Moines, Iowa, Fast Company, High Tech Hot Spot, Technology
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