Archive | August, 2009

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #49: MN State Fair & Snowy Leopard

29. August 2009

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and  Julio Ojeda Zapata. Music by Rustie Blue from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes. Discussed during the show notes: + Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis St. Paul (SMBMSP) and these items: Julio’s image gallery and his use of PicPosterous; Graeme’s video; Hart Van Denburg’s article in City Pages + [...]

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Why is Mike O’Connor cranky?

27. August 2009

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Even though he looks like a pleasant enough fellow in the photo, Mike O’Connor can get pretty cranky. As the representative for urban dwellers on the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Task Force, he’s upset that the Task Force he’s on was seemingly blindsided by a gubernatorial signoff of Connected Nation as the firm who is [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast #48: Pushbuttons & Voice

22. August 2009

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata (Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins are off today). Music by Chuck Willis from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes. Discussed during the show notes: + Topics: - The Pushbutton Web ( http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html ). Is this just a way for people to throw stuff up against the wall [...]

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Pranah: Data Storage for SMB Wins Sprout Award

20. August 2009

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Chances are that the computer you’re reading this post on contains a minimum of a 160GB hard drive. Like mine, it might be connected to a multi-TB backup device which, in turn, is connected to the cloud for online backup. Add to that all of the other computers and servers in our office and you [...]

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MinneDemo Joins MIMA Summit For Tech Track

19. August 2009

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The folks at MIMA have struck a deal with our friends at MinneBar/MinneDemo to present a Technical Track at the upcoming MIMA Summit (Of which Minnov8 is a media partner.) The track will run in conjunction with an already full slate of speakers and presentations scheduled for Monday, October 5 at the Hilton in downtown [...]

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FCC Launches Blogband

19. August 2009

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At Minnov8, we recognize that the most fundamentally important driver and catalyst of internet and web innovation is broadband. With big pipes and significant carrying capacity, entrepreneurs and innovators like you find ways to capitalize on it and people use the internet more when they enjoy high speed and ubiquitous access. With that innovation comes [...]

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Closing Thoughts From BlogWell

16. August 2009

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Before we say farewell to Blogwell, here are some final thoughts from some of the participants:

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ScribbleLive: An Amazing Liveblogging Engine

15. August 2009

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Last Thursday at BlogWell held at General Mills headquarters, the Minnov8 Gang used a tool that I had stumbled across a couple of days earlier: ScribbleLive. While not a Minnesota startup, they’ve so nailed the sweet spot of what’s needed in today’s liveblogging–Twitter integration, turning http’s in to links, embed codes in to instant presenting [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Liveblogging: ‘BlogWell by Gaspedal at General Mills’

12. August 2009

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UPDATE: The event is now over and we’ve archived all of our posts, images and videos on our BlogWell page here. The Minnov8 Gang (Tim, Graeme, Phil and Steve) will be liveblogging the BlogWell event being held at General Mills tomorrow. We’ve setup a separate page that self-updates with our entries and is located here. [...]

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Minnov8 Gang #46: Addicted to Twitter, Chatter about FanChatter & More

8. August 2009

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On this week’s show we talk about Twitter being down and how people realized they are social media addicts, FanChatter, controversy over iPhone apps being rejected and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Discussed during the show: + Twitter down (and Dragnet’s “Blue Boy” LSD episode); FanChatter; Blog comment addition vendors: Echo [...]

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