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The Uptake: Paying Attention to Important Stories

If you’re hanging around this Labor Day weekend anticipating all of the Republican National Convention (RNC) stories of protests and convention intrigue that’ll be covered by the local and national media next week, you need to be aware of the stories unfolding right now, covered by The Uptake using Qik, live streaming mobile phone video. The [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 4

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson These shows, usually between 45-60 minutes in length, seem to just fly by without being able to get too in depth with any given topic. As such, we hope you find the show notes handy as you explore on your own.  Mentioned in this weeks show [...]

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OnePlace: Manage, Share, Collaborate & Execute

In a time when energy prices are accelerating, threats from terrorism and epidemics (e.g., avian flu) are driving companies and individuals to better anticipate and manage risk, and the people with whom collaboration is critical might be in the next town or half a world away, the timing for an easy to use, fast and [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 3

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Garrick Van Buren, Phil Wilson After vacations and business travel this summer, we carve out time on a Saturday morning for another Minnov8 Gang podcast with Episode 3. In it we talk about several Minnesota startups and companies (including our own, with some admittedly self-serving comments!): - PartnerUp [...]

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FCC Broadband Ruling & MN Task Force

If you’re reading Minnov8 you use, understand and undoubtedly rely upon the internet and your broadband connection. You may also be building a business or revenue stream upon the internet-as-a-platform for innovation, and as such you absolutely must stay close to net neutrality, FCC rulings and, most importantly, what our Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task [...]

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CommunityEngine: Open Source Social Network Application

Earlier this summer, Bruno Bornsztein released the code behind his niché social-networking sites Curbly, Uncooped as an open-source project called: CommunityEngine. CommunityEngine is a complete, white-label social network app wrapped up as a Ruby on Rails plugin making it easy to integrate forums, blogs, and user profiles into an existing web application or a stand-alone [...]

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Minneapolis Alt.Net User Group Formed

Minneapolis is getting a new affinity group of .Net developers called Alt.Net. Jamie Thingelstad just gave me a heads-up to his post about this group, knowing that some Minnov8 readers might like to attend. What is “Alt.Net”. From their site: At it’s purest, the driving force behind the ALT.NET developer community may be described simply [...]

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Best Buy Shakes Up VC Liaison Group

The longtime head of the group within Best Buy Co. that served as liaison to the venture capital community is out, replaced by two senior VPs. Martin Nyman told me his position was eliminated June 30. He had been with the company for approximately seven years, with a recent title of Director-Global Innovation Network. At [...]

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ComicTwit: Putting the “wit” in “Twitter”

Minnov8 contributor, Phil Wilson, has launched a new Twitter app just for the fun of it.  ComicTwit, a name derived from the combination of ‘comic wit’ and ‘Twitter’, launched “live and in full-screen beta!” late today. “I was looking for a way to inject more fun into micro-blogging. I like to say ComicTwit will put [...]

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Make Television

If you fancy yourself a hacker of the physical, a creator of stuff, an inventor, or just like doing it yourself, then you’ll be interested in this just in via a post from BoingBoing along with our own Twin Cities Public Television: “In January 2009, MAKE: will come to public television. Produced by MAKE:, Twin [...]

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