SOPA is not an Italian soap, as joked about on the Gang podcast. But we discuss the protests that caused the Stop Online Privacy Act (and its Senate sister act called PIPA or Protect IP Act) to be, as the Mafia always stated about someone who was killed and dumped in the river, “sleeping with the fishes” and we talk about what happened.
Besides all of the catching up we did our guest, Patrick E. Donohue from DealPen, is on to talk about their initiatives to work with startups on funding, knowledge and a host of other value propositions.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Clear Blue 22 & the song “Through With You” from the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show:
- Minneapolis software firm gets $52.5M in venture capital
- Apple announces free iBooks Author OS X app for publishing books to the App Store
- Too Many Don’t “Get” iBooks Author
- Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book
- Not a Kodak Moment: Legendary Camera Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection and How Kodak Failed
- DreamHost Hacked, Password Changes Made Mandatory
- DealPen’s INVESTyR
- The Ihnatko Almanac #16: Some Assembly Required
- Best Buy Announces Leadership Changes
- CarrierIQ Lawsuit by Twin Cities Man
- Successful ebook author Amanda Hocking
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday, January 26th: WordPressMSP, at The Nerdery in Bloomington.
- Thursday, January 26th: MnSearch Presents: Tools of the Trade for SEO with Raven Tools
- Thursday, January 26th/February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
- Friday, January 27th: Social Media Breakfast, Mpls/St. Paul (SMBMSP)–Public Media
- Friday/Saturday, March 16th & 17th: Mobile March TC. Call for speakers.
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Sick with the flu all weekend I’d gone to bed early Sunday night (1/15/12) only to be awakened by two back-to-back text messages arriving on my iPhone. Having been in the internet/web industry since its beginning in the mid-1990s, I instantly recognized the potential for charges from this spammer so I sat up, grabbed my iPad, and started poking around to see if either the shortcode (the “318-50″) or the toll-free 866-861-1606 number was an active scam.
2012 started off with a bang with the
Students in grades K-12 will be teaching adults how to use iPads, iPods, and other devices and software programs. Conference highlights include:
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in full swing and
There’s an old saying about people who rant that, “opinions are like a**es…everyone’s got one” and the Gang is no exception, though we like to think our opinions are a bit more informed than the average
It’s our annual predictions show where the Gang goes over our prediction hits-and-misses from last year’s show…and then we try again to predict what will happen in technology in 2012. Listen to discover how we did and what we think will happen in 2012.
More than 400 organizations have publicly expressed support of the contentious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or the passage of other similar anti-piracy legislation, and we were stunned to see that Minnesota-based
From all of us at Minnov8, we would like to wish you a safe, joyous and delightful holiday! We our grateful for our families, friends, you and, of course, for those who both invent and leverage great technology for incredible outcomes, profit and fun.






Sun, Jan 22, 2012
by Steve Borsch
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