Welcome a New Author: Kurt Roots

Kurt Roots

Help me in welcoming a new Minnov8 author: Kurt Roots. Kurt started his first company, which was devoted to web analytics, in high school at the age of sixteen. He went on to college and then graduate school where he did research in machine learning and data mining along … [Read more...]

On Minnov8′s Radar…

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Several items hit the radar today worthy of posting and a few from discussion at this morning's enjoyable and informative Social Media Breakfast: Brandweek had an interesting article about an initiative at General Mills called MyBlogSpark (from … [Read more...]

Minnov8′s Phil Wilson Heads to SXSW

The Minnov8 Gang has been moving in a lot of different directions of late and we're adding more video to the mix. Phil Wilson, going to the South by Southwest (SXSW) gathering in Austin, TX on behalf of his startup LocaltoneRadio, gives our update about this week's Minnov8 … [Read more...]

Emerging Minnesota Software and Internet Technologies to Take the Stage on February 6

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Entrepreneurs, software developers, and computer professionals of all stripes will be rubbing shoulders again this Friday evening with other hopeful company founders, VCs, angel investors, bloggers, and media people from throughout the Twin Cities and other parts of the … [Read more...]

Minnesota Microblogging

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Every day there seems to be an uptick in the number of people who are online and interested in connecting with friends, family, colleagues or others where even a digital relationship might end up as meaningful. The continued growth of social networks is the strongest … [Read more...]

MIMA Summit Packs The Depot

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As practically every man, woman, and child in the Twin Cities must know by now, the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) held its annual conference Wednesday, themed "Feed". These folks are marketers -- they know how to hype, as they've been telling us for … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 3

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Garrick Van Buren, Phil Wilson After vacations and business travel this summer, we carve out time on a Saturday morning for another Minnov8 Gang podcast with Episode 3. In it we talk about several Minnesota startups … [Read more...]

Nabbit Moves Beyond Tagging

On May 13th a press release announced the new partnership between Eagan-based Jump Technologies’ Nabbit service and CBS Radio, Minneapolis (102.9 Lite FM, 104.1 Jack FM, 830 WCCO AM). This partnership will further move Nabbit from a relatively simple tagging application … [Read more...]

Minnov8 at MinnPost

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What could be better than to have been approached by the editor and publisher of MinnPost, an organization whose mission is to bring high-quality journalism for news-intense people who care about Minnesota, and asked if Minnov8 would be willing to participate weekly with one … [Read more...]

Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle

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If one had any doubt about the intensity of our state's information technology and Internet community, one only had to be anywhere inside the U's Coffman Union on Saturday for the third annual Minnebar "unconference" (part of an international phenomenon called Barcamp). To … [Read more...]