The terminals have proved to be so popular that the center has had to implement time limits. They are the town's digital elite, having learned HTML and Web design basics from the high school's technology instructor, Flo Kallenbach. Eventually, Double-O Web Design, their nascent coding business, may end up building pages for local businesses and civic groups and hosting those pages on a Web server at the center. Time limits Center gains support but not everyone's The three business incubator tenants, each with its own one-room office, round out the center's mix. Faleide's firm takes satellite images from federal government sources and repackages them with proprietary software.
Farmers use the infrared photos of their fields to measure vegetation density and crop quality.
The information helps them plot the pinpoint application of fertilizers and pesticides. For the last three years, his clients have been able to retrieve the images by logging onto the AgriImaGIS Web site. And on the other side of AgriImaGIS is a tiny call center for Innes Publishing, a Chicago-area company that publishes four trade magazines for the printing industry. Innes employs five here. As Ed Innes points out, five employees may not seem like much of a wave of economic development, but in a town of 559, those jobs are felt.