Minnov8

Here are a few items from around the ‘net of interest to Minnov8 readers:

• Ars Technica has this post, “Welcome to Mound, MN: home of the $249.99 DSL broadband plan“ about Frontier Communications placing a $249.99 price on their DSL service for a “handful of subscribers in Mound, MN” who are “simply excessive residential users” of Frontier DSL broadband, according to the quoted SVP in the article.

• StarTribune‘s Neil St. Anthony has this column in today’s paper on Start-up community is cheering the new angel investor tax credit which, ironically, was placed right next to another, more pessimistic article entitled, Venture capital down sharply in Minnesota that described how “first-quarter investments were $17 million, the least in 15 years. Most went to med-tech firms.”

• Twin Cities Business has had several articles of interest this past week including 2020 Foresight outlining how State Demographer Tom Gillaspy says Minnesota will have a major labor shortage 10 years from now and that only productivity gains will save the state’s economy; this one on Small Business Success Stories of 2009; and an insightful article about the comeback of the ad agency Fallon, a firm we’ve showcased here before with their social media app Skimmer; and that Best Buy Among First to Use New Twitter Platform.

• Julio Ojeda Zapata highlights Video Game Live which was at Orchestra Hall this past week and so good (especially for those of us who have kids that are rabid gamers like my 15 year old son) that he encouraged me to take a road trip to their next venue!

• David Erickson at eStrategyBlog embeds Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker’s presentation on Mobile Trends in this post

• Bex Huff shows that Twitter is Sooooo 18th Century…

• Dana Larson over at OnePlace has a post with excellent resources of interest for the project managers among you.