Watching the tech headlines each week continually points to an accelerating trend: the ‘cloud’ is delivering an ever-increasing set of applications and services. Add to that an explosion in mobile devices and a continuing growth in mobile wireless (and Wifi) bandwidth, and you have a perfect storm of technologies and enablers driving innovation.
This week we talk with Rob Weber, VP and co-founder of the St. Cloud-based W3i. Rob spearheaded the setup of Minnesota’s premiere tech showcase event, Minnedemo, which will be held in St. Cloud on Tuesday, April 12th. He details the startups who will show their value propositions and it’s looking to be a very, very strong lineup!
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: W.C. Clark is the artist & the song is “Cold Blooded Lover” via the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show:
- Minnedemo presenters:
- Field Nation - Cloud for IT Support Professionals (Mynul Kahn)
- Locate My Deal – iPhone app which helps you find and share the best deal near you! (Joseph Rueter)
- FeedLogic – On-farm feed system technology (Drew Ryder)
- Logix Learning – Computer programming science, technology, engineering math (STEM) curriculum for high schools (Carter Tatge)
- SocialSamba – Social networking for scripted characters (Matt Shilts)
- Fliptoast – Satisfy your social cravings by bringing Facebook to your desktop! (Shivani Khanna)
- JamParty – Don’t just play, make your own music on PC and console (Chad Koehler)
- LiveEdit – Content management system (Eric Brown)
- People Driven Performance - Software as a Service enterprise communication platform that engages employees and accelerates strategy execution (Denny Dotson and Lou Dickmeyer)
- riteTIME – Capture labor data for payroll and job costing in a single system (Bruce Hagberg)
- Amazon Cloud Drive
- Upcoming Events:
- Monday, April 11th: MinneWebCon
- Tuesday, April 12th: Fallon Brainfood (“Startup and Never Stop”), 12:00-1:00 pm
- Tuesday, April 12th: Minnedemo in St. Cloud
- Wednesday, April 13th: Mojo Mixer Speed Dating for entrepreneurs
- Wednesday, April 13th: MIMA Spring Social, at the FineLine (5:30-8:30pm)
- April 14th: MHTA Spring Conference
- April 15th and 16th: Dell Compellent career open houses (Sofitel, Bloomington)
Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Minnov8 Gang Podcast
by Steve Borsch