Minnov8 Gang 177 – Dick Tracy Would Be Proud

The Gang welcomes our guest host, Julio Ojeda Zapata, to discuss the latest news. Surprisingly one part was a discussion about the Kickstarter projects for new connected watches…in the style of Dick Tracy…and had us wondering: how many of these sorts of watch projects do we need?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Phil Wilson is off)
Music: Summer City Blues by Freeky Cleen, by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• MinneDemo (and Luke Francl moving to San Francisco)
• Zencoder acquired by Brightcove
• The Twins unveil iPhone game for Target Field use only 
• Apple:
  • OS X Mountain Lion released
  • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
  • Do a Mountain Lion clean install for that Pine-Sol smell
  • Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD
  • Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter
  • Compatible Apps at Roaring Apps
• Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak’s Patents
• Nexus 7
• ‘Connected Watches’:
  • The Pebble
  • MetaWatch introduces Strata smartwatch on Kickstarter: ‘iOS 6 made it possible’
• Kickstarter projects in Minneapolis (and other cities in Minnesota)
• Funder’s Club
• WSJ Olympics live blog
• indiegogo

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
• Thursday, August 9th: Field Nation workshop
• Saturday, September 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference