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Archive | April, 2009

On Minnov8′s Radar…

29. April 2009

Several items hit the radar today worthy of posting and a few from discussion at this morning’s enjoyable and informative Social Media Breakfast: Brandweek had an interesting article about an initiative at General Mills called MyBlogSpark (from @garykoelling): Bloggers, particularly moms, are an audience of such growing importance to General Mills that the consumer-goods company [...]

Ideas Project: A Resource for Innovators

28. April 2009

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On our respective journeys heading toward a world where the internet is at the heart of connection, communication, commerce, work, play, education, healthcare and so much more, it’s an incredible delight to come across a site like the Ideas Project, described by them as, “…an entirely new way to connect with some of the most [...]

The Economist on Who is Controlling Your TV

26. April 2009

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It’s refreshing (and validating) to have a prestigious news organization like the United Kingdom-based Economist, write an article that supports the position I (and many others) have taken that ISP bandwidth caps and authentication are nothing but control measures to protect Cable TV revenues. This past week, the Economist published this article about what’s happening [...]

Digital Economy Fact Book ’08-’09

26. April 2009

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Having information and facts at-your-fingertips about the internet and web is absolutely critical whether you’re a startup needing content for your pitch, a marketer needing to understand a 40,000 foot view of trends, a corporate user needing to understand mobile access to the ‘net or international usage, or if you’re just someone like me: an [...]

Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

25. April 2009

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Anyone born in 1978, and now in their early thirties, never knew a time when there weren’t mainstream personal computers. For the most part, those who entered this world in the late 1980′s (and are in their twenties like my daughter), haven’t lived in a time when PC’s weren’t in their school or at home, [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 34

25. April 2009

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People in Minnesota are quickly shifting their focus toward innovations on the internet and web. This is reflected by the array of events that showcase Minnesota startups, help leaders identify trends and figure out how to capitalize upon them, and the Gang discusses some that happened in April as well as a few coming up. [...]

Sorry. No Internet Video for You

24. April 2009

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Are you enjoying the ability to watch TV shows and movies streamed through the internet to your computer or media center with the likes of Hulu, Joost and all the others? If the cable companies and other network providers have their way, your connection will need to be “authenticated” — verifying that the location of [...]

Broadband Perspective

24. April 2009

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Mike O’Connor, urban representative on the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Task Force, recently interviewed the “father of the internet” Vint Cerf, as well as the head of Best Buy’s Geek Squad, Robert Stephens about their perspectives on broadband. After the jump, you can watch Mike’s interviews (broken in to chunks due to YouTube’s limits on [...]

It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There

21. April 2009

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[Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the CloudAve blog.] What a gorgeous spring week it was in Minnesota last week: clear, sunny, even sneaking into the ’70s. The only “clouds” in sight were the proponents and would-be adopters of the latest, new hotness in enterprise computing. Two events, on Wednesday and Saturday, attracted [...]

Oracle Drinks Up Sun: MySQL Questions Remain…

20. April 2009

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…Like is LAMP now LAMOP? I’m personally aware of over 40 projects here in flyover country that are not only leveraging — but are wholly reliant on — MySQL. To make matters worse (and admittedly selfish on my part) our company uses MySQL across all our web properties. To see that megalith Oracle purchased Sun [...]

Archive | April, 2009

On Minnov8′s Radar…

Ideas Project: A Resource for Innovators

The Economist on Who is Controlling Your TV

Digital Economy Fact Book ’08-’09

Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 34

Sorry. No Internet Video for You

Broadband Perspective

It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There

Oracle Drinks Up Sun: MySQL Questions Remain…

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Twitter

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