Marissa Mayer’s CEO compensation package was a surprise to many of us as was Dalton Caldwell’s audacious proposal to raise $500k. We talk about this and much more on this show.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week)
Music: Heartless by Michael Burks from the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show:
- MN Cup pitch event at Digital River (11 startups participated)
- MIMA event with Pandora
- Marissa Mayer
- Microsoft
- Windows 8 Launch is set for October 26, 2012
- Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue
- Don’t Believe the Doomsayers: Microsoft’s Q4 Results Are Good News
- FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging
- Microsoft patent allows for web-based spying technology
- High Tech Headstones. Live forever with a QR code the brainchild of a Twin Cities-based Katzman Monument
- App.Net to take on Twitter? Announcing an audacious proposal (Dalton Caldwell blog)
- Size of the baby boomer population
- Hootsuite’s Google+ Pages integration
- Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy
- Minneapolis’ 311 app
Upcoming Events
- Energizing Open Innovation: Education, Business and Government, Wednesday, July 25th: UofMN Humphrey School Wilkins Room, 1:00-5:00 pm (Happy Hour at 5:00)
- Optimize Minneapolis Book Launch Event with Lee Odden at Aria, July 25th at 3:00 p.m. (Note: now sold out)
- MinneDemo, July 26th at Aria, 6:30pm
- Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
- Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
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App.net — There was an alternative to Twitter way back when – Identica (open source too) — A bunch of notables joined (Scoble, Gillmor, etc) but very few people followed. Not giving App.net much hope with a paid service – in spite of the hype/money – when a free one drew a very small crowd.
Side Note: Damn you Borsch – Loved the music and now ran up my iTunes bill with Burks tunes.
Randy (@PXLated) — First off, as I’m selecting music I always think about how to drive sales for the musicians by tormenting our listeners with amazing tunes!
I, too, leapt on Identica right away (in fact, you were the first person to connect with me) and am bummed that a widely federated ID like that didn’t catch on.