Minnov8 Gang 228 – Totally Addicted to Weather

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: The Great Manolete  Artist: Juan Oskar  Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show:

• Minnesota Stories
  • • AgePower launch
    • Target to let Facebook users determine $5 million school giveaway
    • The state of LTE from the big-four wireless carriers in Minnesota
    • Comcast’s X1 gear and whether it’s a cord-cutter repellant
  • Minnesota-born and now-struggling Hipstamatic unleashes Oggl in the Instagram age Julio’s post 1 and post 2
  • Microcenter has a new area devoted to do-it-yourself (DIY) tech
    • View a photo of the space here
• Obsession
  • Julio is a man obsessed with Yahoo Weather
    • About obsession
• Chromecast
  • Google’s $35 Chromecast
  • CNet’s Tips-n-Tricks to Improve Your Chromecast Experience
  • The honest Chromecast review: Three weeks with Google’s TV stick
• Apple
  • Bloomberg: Thinner iPad 5, Retina iPad mini & Sept. 10 iPhone event
  • AAPL Ends Up 5%: Icahn Tweets ‘Large Position,’ Nice Chat with CEO Cook
• Other Stories & Links
  • Motorola’s MotoX
    • HTC One
    • MotoX vs. HTC One specs
    • Will Wheaton Recovery Tool
    • Droid Ultra vs. Moto X: anything you can do, I can do better
  • SmartThings
    • SmartThings compatible devices
    • IFTTT & its Channels
    • X10 Standard

 Upcoming Events

• Microcenter’s in-store clinic on Raspberry Pi – Sat/Sun, Aug 24 & 25 at 2pm
• INVESTyR’s “Fundraising in the Digital Economy”. First Tuesday of every month: 3:30-4:30pm at CoCo Minneapolis
• Grace Hopper / Women in Computing, October 2 – 5, 7am – 5pm
  • Who was Grace Hopper?
• Life Science Lean-In, MinneAnalytics Forum, Friday, October 11, 2013 (all day)
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23