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Archive | February, 2010

Minnesota Startup Launches ‘Spark Radio’ iPhone App

27. February 2010

Is it possible to design a radio app that delivers the ultimate radio experience, complete with visually stunning graphics and social media capabilities, too? Minneapolis’ own Handcast Media Labs LLC thought so, set out to prove it, and just launched the result on the iTunes App Store a couple of days ago. It’s called Spark [...]

Jonathan Zittrain on Minds for Sale

26. February 2010

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One of the thought leading places I follow is the Berkman Center at Harvard University and their podcast/webcast delivery vehicle called MediaBerkman, whose focus is to “…feature conversations with and talks by leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore topics such as the factors that influence knowledge creation and dissemination in the digital age; [...]

Startup Visa Bill Introduced

25. February 2010

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Early Wednesday morning, Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Richard Luger introduced the “Startup Visa Act”, aimed to change the EB-5 visa to allow immigrant entrepreneurs to obtain a visa, if there is funding from a sponsoring VC or angel. This should fuel job growth, as one of the requirements to get the visa is adding 5 jobs [...]

ReliaCloud & enStratus Form Partnership

24. February 2010

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Since we’re a sponsor of the upcoming CloudCamp event on March 2nd — and are huge fans of cloud computing and the innovation occurring with companies in this space — we were delighted to get a heads-up on a new partnership in town that will undoubtedly be quite a powerful combination and a great addition [...]

Pew Internet’s “Future of the Internet IV”

20. February 2010

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If you rely upon the internet in any way for your startup, business, learning or to feed your addiction to World of Warcraft, you’ll be interested that Pew Internet has released their fourth report on the internet’s future entitled, “Future of the Internet IV“. It’s a survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders which reveals fascinating [...]

Minnov8 Gang 68: Falling Through the Cloud?

20. February 2010

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The reliability of the cloud is something that is discussed whenever there is a major outage of any kind. WordPress.com’s outage this past week took down sites like TechCrunch, GigaOM and over 10.2M other blogs. Media Temple (a place Tim and Steve host sites at) has consistent issues with slowness on their Grid Service and [...]

Curation Station…Sweeping the Nation?

18. February 2010

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Ah, the web… a veritable treasure trove of knowledge, an endless stream of news and information. Actually, it’s more of a flood of facts and opinions that would make even Noah a might uncomfortable. How is the average web surfer to keep up if they want to…let alone the media marketer that must keep up [...]

Comcast Rolls Out Bandwidth Metering in MN

17. February 2010

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I just received this email and went to check my usage. Since it started today I’ve used none, but will see how much I use on a monthly basis especially since my household streams a lot of video, does online gaming, and heavily uses the ‘net. This is, of course, nothing but a precursor to [...]

Visions of Tomorrow, Yesterday

17. February 2010

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If you, like I, follow the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) Twitter feed (@MNHS) then you might already have stumbled across an interesting lecture which may also have led you to a delightful St. Paul blog. Stumble indeed. It was pure happenstance that I came across a compelling MNHS lecture called, “History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrow” [...]

Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow?

13. February 2010

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme is off this week)Music by Mean Gene Kelton and the Diehards and the tune is “Running from the Law”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley. + Google Buzz + Greg Litman (WCCO News & Sports producer) post on Arik Hanson’s blog + Juicy Lucy controversy + Phil’s [...]

Archive | February, 2010

Minnesota Startup Launches ‘Spark Radio’ iPhone App

Jonathan Zittrain on Minds for Sale

Startup Visa Bill Introduced

ReliaCloud & enStratus Form Partnership

Pew Internet’s “Future of the Internet IV”

Minnov8 Gang 68: Falling Through the Cloud?

Curation Station…Sweeping the Nation?

Comcast Rolls Out Bandwidth Metering in MN

Visions of Tomorrow, Yesterday

Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow?

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Twitter

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