Today’s show covers mobile developments for certain, but we also talk about several other things like yesterday’s Social Media Breakfast (SMBMSP), venture capital in Minnesota, cloud computing initiatives by Visi, and much more.
This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Straight 8′s and the tune is, “Ann Bowman”
Discussed during the show:
- StarTribune article on Minnesota venture capital
- Don Ball’s post An Embarrassment of Hidden Talent about impressions from the recent MIMA holiday party
- Zipnosis
- Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Market report, recapped nicely in this post by ReadWriteWeb (Bonus: this Forbes article on the “no brainer” investment potential in mobile
- Visi’s ReliaCloud and the comparison
- Others mentioned during the cloud computing discussion: Enstratus; Jumpbox; and Subversion used by Tim Elliott with his various installations
- Mobile discussion included MotherApp; 100,000 iPhone apps post by Steve; WebDesignerDepot post on 40 Awesome iPhone Application Websites; publisher O’Reilly & Associates Best iPhone Apps website.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 56:08 — 38.5MB)
December 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Listening & Commenting…
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Surf music stories – Back in my band days we had two booking agencies. The one in Mpls. was owned by the Trashmen (SurferBird).Boy was I sick of that song.
Saw the Beach Boys at the Hollyhock Ballroom in Hatfield, MN before they had their first hit. It was a “who are these strange guys in their red/pink striped shirts with pointy shoes and funny music guys.”
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Hope the person in the PeeCup is paid well – Like ya’ll, I don’t understand the branding. Wonder what they’d do if they were proctologists
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Venture Capital – The VCs will never do tech (software) here. In the computer tech areas it’s always been hardware oriented just like medical. Why do you think it will ever change? Why are you (and al lot of others pursuing the software areas? As independent consultants, the money is in hardware. The excitement is in software/mobile but not the money. You (Graeme) and I should have stayed in the Med tech area (we were the agency of record for Medtronic way back when)
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Circumventing the iPhone store – Go for it if you don’t need any integration with the hardware (accelerator, camera, etc). Or, don’t need smooth scrolling, or specific gestures, or don’t need a lot of things.
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And finally – Zygi Wolf: MN Vikings Welfare Queen – http://bit.ly/89V8vl – Sid Hartman a Douch – I’m not a big fan of subsidizing rich sports guys.
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