It is 11/11/11 so Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! A fictional character in director Rob Reiner’s classic music spoof, This is Spinal Tap, his quotes were a pre-internet, slowly propagating meme which most saw (except Steve).
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Discussed during the show:
- Defrag 2011; Graeme’s live blog of Defrag 2011; MN tech startups at Defrag: enStratus (a sponsor); TSTMedia; Asystme; FanChatter; ZingString; KidBlog; Rifr
- Best Buy Acquires IT Services Company mindSHIFT For $167 Million
- Best Buy UK stores to be shut down after a year of unprofitable operation
- Graeme’s interview with Robert Stephens
- StarTribune: Best Buy’s tablet app…uh…needs some work
- Target Works to Fix Crashing Website Before Black Friday
- Google+ Brand Pages Launched; Scoble: “I wish I had never heard of Google+’s brand pages“; Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together
- Intentionally Left Blank Page
- Verge
- Danah Boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research whose blog is “Apophenia“.
Upcoming Events:
- Saturday, Nov 12th: Code Slingers Challenge - 10:00am – 10:00pm
- Saturday, Nov 12th: ProductCamp Minnesota 3 - , University of St Thomas – Minneapolis, Schulze Hall
- Tuesday, Nov 15th: Mobile Twin Cities - 7:00pm
- Wednesday, Nov 16th: MIMA Event – Community Management with Olivier Blanchardat 7:30am
- December 10th to 13th: TIES 2011 EduTech Conference - 9:00am – 5:00pm, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Fri, Nov 11, 2011
Minnov8 Gang Podcast
by Steve Borsch