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Closet Couture and Online Closets: The Next Big Thing?

Between episodes of Project Runway and copies of Lucky and Vogue, Christine Elia thought about what could be an easy way for women to share their closets and their styling.

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Watch out Twitter, PingGadget Is Coming For You

PingGadget hit my radar last week and I immediately thought to myself, “Oh great, a twitter clone that isn’t Twitter but wants to be. Lame.” Being dedicated to reporting on all the tech news in Flyover Country requires me to investigate and report on every story that I think would interest our readers and so I checked out PingGadget just to see what, exactly, made them think they could take on twitter.

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Apple’s problem – $elling Mac$

Written by: Dario D. STILL, less than 4% of computers worldwide are Macs. I dislike that fact, because Macs are just as good as PC’s, in my opinion (not better,.

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Drink Deck hits Chicago- App to Follow?

by Benjamin J. Pavlovic Toasts were made, bongos were played and PuPus were consumed as Drink Deck held an exclusive media preview last Thursday at Trader Vic’s in Chicago. Entrepreneur.

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Facebook Sues Teachbook – Blast from my Past

Today Wired magazine is running the story “Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networking Site for Teachers” (Its also here on Newser: “Facebook Sues Small Teacher Community Site” Here’s.

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JunoWallet: A 21st Century Spin on Gift Cards- “Must Have App”

JunoWallet is a San Jose based start-up whose co-founder, Chris Sweis, lives here in Chicago. JunoWallet is an app available for Android, iPhone and iPad devices that literally is giving.

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IndyGeek.net Announces Rock Band 2 Competition!!!

Today I was contacted by a very cool guy by the name of John Fox. John is the brains behind the site IndyGeek and he was curious if I would.

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Three September Events- FG looking for participants

September is going to be a BIG month in Flyover Country Flyover Geeks is having three separate events and we are hoping to continue having the community’s support. Dates are.

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Chicago is the 21st Century Motown of Startups

January 12, 1959: Berry Gordy founds Motown Records at 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit and arrogantly puts a sign above the window that reads, “Hitsville U.S.A.” He had no customers.

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Why you need to be Really Mad, Right Now, about Net Neutrality (1789 Style)

Being in Flyover Country is interesting. On the one hand there are some amazing people doing some amazing things. This was true of my time in Silicon Valley, of course,.

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