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Archive | May, 2008

Zanby.com Relaunched: Groups for Groups

30. May 2008

After 2 years in development Zanby.com has relaunched with a different take on a community site. Rather than focusing on the individual profile with groups as an extension (how I think of Facebook). Zanby reverses it by putting groups at the core and extending them into a “group family” – a network of groups. The [...]

Scribbls: A Big Draw with Little Doodles

29. May 2008

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To stand out in a world that launches a new start-up company, application, or website almost hourly is not an easy task. Ask anyone who witnessed the demo at the latest Minnebar in the Twin Cities or has had the good fortune to discover the site that has been live for about three weeks and, [...]

Taking a Risk on Open Source

25. May 2008

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Sit back and let me tell you a story about a game-changing open source ecommerce project, an emerging web development firm in Bloomington, and how they discovered this project and I, in turn, discovered them. It’s illustrative of how Internet and Web connections are changing everything from value discovery to customer satisfaction to how awareness [...]

Adaptive Path UX Workshop in Minneapolis

21. May 2008

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San Francisco firm Adaptive Path, a leading experience strategy and design company, is holding a user experience (UX), intermediate-to-advanced workshop in Minneapolis at The Depot on June 16-19th. minnov8.com readers get 15% off the registration price by using code UXIM when registering (on top of the Early Bird price before May 31st).

Your Business Card for the Web

17. May 2008

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Throughout the last few centuries, people would meet and exchange trade, social, or what we now know as business cards, ensuring they could re-connect with one another if there was any interest or need in doing so again. This ink on paper, manual handing out process was adequate in a day when contact information was [...]

Nabbit Moves Beyond Tagging

15. May 2008

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On May 13th a press release announced the new partnership between Eagan-based Jump Technologies’ Nabbit service and CBS Radio, Minneapolis (102.9 Lite FM, 104.1 Jack FM, 830 WCCO AM). This partnership will further move Nabbit from a relatively simple tagging application into a full blown marketing tool. On that day, the eve of the big [...]

Bellying Up to the ‘Bar for The Seven Deadlies

13. May 2008

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As part of Minnebar last Saturday I had the pleasure of sitting in on the “7 Deadly Mistakes of Start-up Marketing” presented by Curt Prins, marketing consultant focusing on emerging technology companies. In a full board room at Coffman Union on the U of M Campus, Curt took us through what he considers to the [...]

Minnov8 at MinnPost

13. May 2008

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What could be better than to have been approached by the editor and publisher of MinnPost, an organization whose mission is to bring high-quality journalism for news-intense people who care about Minnesota, and asked if Minnov8 would be willing to participate weekly with one of our posts published there? Maybe bags full of $100 bills [...]

Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle

12. May 2008

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If one had any doubt about the intensity of our state’s information technology and Internet community, one only had to be anywhere inside the U’s Coffman Union on Saturday for the third annual Minnebar “unconference” (part of an international phenomenon called Barcamp). To say the joint was a-jumpin’ simply does not suffice. And numbers alone [...]

State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. A Minnebar Panel Discussion

11. May 2008

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One of the highlights of Saturday’s Minnebar was a panel discussion entitled, State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. The panelists included: Douglas Olson (Microsoft), Jamie Thinglestad (formerly of Dow Jones), Michael Gorman (Split Rock Partners), Robert Stephens (Geek Squad), Dan Grigsby (Unpossible), Matthew Dornquast (code42). Ed Kohler at Technology Evangelist has a post with [...]

Archive | May, 2008

Zanby.com Relaunched: Groups for Groups

Scribbls: A Big Draw with Little Doodles

Taking a Risk on Open Source

Adaptive Path UX Workshop in Minneapolis

Your Business Card for the Web

Nabbit Moves Beyond Tagging

Bellying Up to the ‘Bar for The Seven Deadlies

Minnov8 at MinnPost

Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle

State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. A Minnebar Panel Discussion

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Twitter

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