Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

Discussed during the show:

• TiE Minnesota “Startups & Mentors”
• Local startup funding report here and Kidblog and Heroic and FanChatter
• Facebook Raises $16 Billion In Record Technology Offering and Two men rob internet cafe at gunpoint, but forget to log out of Facebook first 
• Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches and Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality 
• Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens
• Multiple Nexus devices could be a game-changer for Google and Android
• Google Shifts Tack on Android 
• GMAIL: Google Locks Me Out Gmail. Seriously? and Julio takes the leap: Web-based Gmail only and Google promises to migrate Google Apps users’ Google+ accounts within weeks, has yet to do so after six months and Fluid App
• TRAVEL: Travelers Telecom and Scott e-Vest

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 169 – Does This Make Me Look Dorky? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

What struck us after the show recording was how far the world has come with technology since that shows debut in 1960…in black & white. Rotary dial phones, cooking only on stoves (what, no microwave?), and a community isolated due to the slow movement of communications (huh? no internet?), we’ve come a long way.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson as “Floyd the Barber” (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

Discussed during the show:

• Bing deepens Facebook integration, connecting searchers with friends and New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google’s Search Plus Your World and Head-To-Head: Bing’s Social Search Vs. Google’s Search Plus Your World
• Apple reportedly dropping Google Maps, launching new 3D mapping service in iOS 6 and Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”
• Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? and Samsung Galaxy S III and The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers and HTC One X & S and HTC EVO 4G LTE
• Pebble smart watch sells out and The Vergecast 030 (Pebble founder interview)
• Apple making a $799 Air in fear of ultrabooks? Nope
• OpenStreetMap
• Confirmed: European mobile data roaming costs to fall 
• Bluetooth 4 

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 168 – Goober says “Hey!” is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson

Discussed during the show:

• Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles and Apple expected to expand store-within-store presence at Walmart, Target and iPad Renews Tablet Dominance as Kindle Fire Sales Drop Like a Rock 
• With 8.8% market share, Apple has 73% of cell phone profits and The phone market in 2012: a tale of two disruptions
• Tablet market: NPD says Apple will lose quarter of tablet market by 2017
• Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary
• Best Buy Deathwatch: Best Buy marketing exec Barry Judge resigns and Executive in charge of China becomes latest to leave Best Buy and Best Buy to Expand Bloomington Facility, Add Workers
• 93% of in-store app users make purchase in physical location
• The $399 iPad 2 boasts better battery life, says report  
• Tokyo “virtual” shopping and Near Field Communication
• Michael Arrington, CEO of Yahoo? 
• Pocket 

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 167 – The Mod Squad is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson

Discussed during the show:

• SaaS Camp Recap 
• MHTA Spring Conference
• Google Drive: Introducing Google Drive… yes, really and Google Set to Meld GDrive With Chrome OS
• Best Buy Deathwatch: Is Best Buy’s Future An Online Showroom? and 7 Reasons Best Buy Won’t Be Around in 7 Years
• Gang Tech Talk: Klout vs. Klouchebag and What Your Klout Score Really Means and Rohn Jay Miller’s The Myth of Digital Influence
• Etsy 3D Printed Products
• Co.lab opening doors for Duluth techies, and then some

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 166 – Print Me Some Coffee is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Sugar Rush” by Beau Hall from the podsafe Music Alley

Discussed during the show:

• Is Kickstarter the new VC? Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android and Forget the money: Kickstarter turns Pebble into a platform
• Is it becoming TOO easy to be tracked online and, especially, with our smartphones? If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move and 2006 AOL data search results leak and NYTimes: A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749
• Will It Blend
• StarTribune: Lean Times for Venture Capitalists 
• Indiegogo
• Kickstarter technology projects already funded 
• Bluetooth 4.0 
• Graffiti for Android
• Project Glass
• Naked TSA Protests Lead to Arrests, Mental Evaluations and Oregon Man Strips Down to Protest TSA 

Upcoming Events:

• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 165 – So, Lumia 900, why is your software half-baked? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Johnnys Deathray Boogie” by Johnny Nicholas from the podsafe Music Alley

Guest Segment: We were pleased to have on the always delightful and incredibly mobile knowledgeable Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter)

Discussed during the show:

• Best Buy’s Brian Dunn out: Best Buy: Dunn Is Done; Is The Retailer Doomed, Too? and Why Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Had To Quit and Best Buy: CEO Brian Dunn resigns over ‘personal conduct’ issue and Cringley’s article on why Best Buy is Doomed
• Is Instagram Really Worth $1B? Really? Facebook and Instagram: Made for Each Other and Insta-rich: How Instagram became a $1-billion company in 18 months and Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble?
• Does Windows Phone Have Any Chance Of Market Traction? Nokia, AT&T launch the Lumia 900 amid few lines, strong buzz and Windows Phone will only account for 2% of app downloads in 2012, firm says
• 11 Startups That Could Get Bought For $1 Billion Tomorrow
• Apple’s New WYSIWYG App Development Tool for iOS? Will Apple’s patent granted Thursday enable app development for the masses? 
• Minnebar 2012 sessions
• Jason Calcanis post about Apple as trillion dollar company due to payments
• Tim Elliott’s team (Full Court WordPress) non-profit site built during the Overnight Website Challenge: New site; Old site

Upcoming Events:

• April (various dates): dSchool at CoCo 
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 164 – One BILLION dollars!?! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Do you know why some people are 1 to 4% Neandertal?

The discovery of modern day humans with some neandertal DNA came as a surprise to many in the scientific community (especially when you consider that most depictions of neandertals show them as very ugly and that “mixing DNA” meant modern-looking humans back then were having sex with these knuckle-draggers!).

It came as a surprise to me too, not because some other people have this DNA within them, but because I have had my DNA profile created by 23andMe and recently discovered that my genetics contain an estimated 2.5% neandertal DNA. Maybe that’s why I have a thick protruding forehead and think about living in a cave!  ;-)

“Your Inner Neandertal” is a 30 minute presentation showing how art can uniquely express science concepts and why some of us may find a little “Neander” in our genes. With examples from “At the Crossroads” video and her very cool DNA Portrait traveling show, Lynn will explain how some genes may be a surprising and generous gift from our ancient and now extinct cousins (and this I gotta hear).

Saturday, April 28th at 11 am
Minneapolis Downtown Hennepin Library
This keynote talk for Minneapolis DNA Days
is free and open to the public. Please register (go here).
For more information, parking and directions (go here).

More DNA Days events at area libraries (info here) will cover topics like genetic testing and screening, capturing family health history and tools for collecting the information.

To learn more about multimedia artist Lynn Fellman, someone focused on “illuminating the human genome through art, design and narrative,” check our her site at: FellmanStudio.com

“Your Inner Neandertal” DNA Day Talk is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

It just keeps getting bigger and bigger — and better!  A pre-party the night before was a new, fun twist this year, held at Vic’s, across the river from Downtown Minneapolis.  On Saturday, some 60 breakout sessions provided a wide array of learning and sharing experiences, along with awesome hallway discussions that were in full swing all day long — from 8:00 am all the way through the closing reception well after 6:00 pm.

Kudos to organizers Ben Edwards, Luke Francl, and Adrienne Peirce of Minnestar.org, and their many volunteers who work so hard to make this event successful. And thanks to all the great sponsors: Code42 Software, Fredrikson & Byron, 8th Bridge, W3i, ipHouse, August Ash, Bloom Health, Barcamp Tour, Split Rock Partners, ChowGirls, and Ech03.

It seems I say this every year, but it’s true (I’ve attended the last six annual events in their entirety):  the level of energy and enthusiasm about Minnesota Tech was more than I’ve ever experienced!  You can just sense the growth and excitement in our tech community. And, if you’re like me, you keep meeting so many more new and amazing people — technology and business professionals who are contributing to great new startups here in Minnesota, as well as to the broader technology industry in our state.  It was a pleasure to behold.  I had so many excellent conversations, trust me — there isn’t enough room in this blog post to tell you about them all <haha>.

But I can show you pics I shot Friday night and all day Saturday, which I posted on Instagram. Here’s a selection of those pics that I put into a Minnebar 2012 Flickr set.

Minnebar 2012: Tech Geek-Out Extraordinaire! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: “Universal Domain” by Dreamline from the podsafe Music Alley

Discussed during the show:

• Overnight Website Challenge: huge lineup of news here
• The Nerdery releases JSON Accelerator
• Best Buy reorg stories: Forbes here and here; Marketwatch; CNET; CNBC; and Inside Best Buy, an anonymous store manager’s take on the Best Buy announcement
• Is Google stoking up the tablet wars? and Why Google’s Tablet Store Isn’t the Nexus One All Over Again
• JAMF Software’s “Everything Apple…managed“

Upcoming Events:

• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 10th: enStratus Cloud Meetup – 5:00-8:00 PM, The Local, Minneapolis
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 163 – Is Retail Dead? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This is Minnesota’s premiere entrepreneural event and past ones have seen stiff competition in every category since there are so many great startups here in our State. To familiarize yourself with this year’s competition, please find several resources below in the embedded document (we compiled the press release, “fast facts” and a good article on the MN Cup for you to review in one place which, if you want, you can also download using the download button in the toolbar below).

Use the “Full Screen” button for the best way to view this embedded doc:

Minnesota Cup Entry Starts Today is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Why this ‘camp’ and why now? Over the last few years, Lief has said he’s had the incredible opportunity to travel to, attend, and speak at numerous SaaS-specific events. Most of what he has learned has been locked away in his head as tacit knowledge. Since “the cloud” and software as services online has become so hot, Lief has been asked by several companies to share some of this information. Like all of us, Lief’s weekday priorities to Workface means that a weekend event would probably be the best forum for the SaaS community.

Lief Larson, CEO of Workface

SaaS Camp 2012 is being tightly packed into a single session-intense Saturday and has been created for SaaS practitioners and businesses embarking on SaaS models.  It will be held at CoCo MSP in the Minneapolis Grain Exchange on Saturday, April 21st, from 9am-4pm.

Thirteen major areas of SaaS will be covered, ranging from pricing models to channel development.  The price is $199, which is being used to cover the facilities costs, catering/lunch, and materials.  It will be limited attendance because Lief is hoping to keep it manageable and more intimate.  Registration info available at: http://saasclass.com/events or http://saascamp2012.eventbrite.com.

SaaS Camp 2012 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Discussed during the show:

• Make An iPhone, Android App Without Knowing A Line Of Code 
• TheAppBuilder 
• Best Buy Is Selling Nearly as Many iPhones as Apple Itself

Upcoming Events:

• March 28: JAMF Software’s “Everything Apple…managed“
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 162 – N-N-N-Nerds! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Justin Grammens

Also joining us on the ‘cast is Justin Grammens with Code 42 Software, one of the cofounders of Mobile March along with Phil Wilson and Linda Cummings in 2010. Mobile March offered two tracks of learning this year: Mobile Development and Mobile Business. By offering content that appealed to mobile developers, business people, these co-founders hoped to facilitate a greater understanding between all constituencies that make mobile happen. We think it worked well and was a great event!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off)

Upcoming Events:

• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• March 28: JAMF Software’s “Everything Apple…managed“
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 161 – Mobilecise! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Lisa Grimm

Our second guest is none other than Chief Technology Officer of Best Buy, Robert Stephens, and his just-announced departure and the likelihood his adventure will be heading west to San Francisco. As always, Robert demonstrates how he is an incredibly accessible leader and so willing to connect with those of us in the technology trenches. He has been such a supporter and asset to the Minnesota tech community and will be sorely missed (though we suspect he’ll stay close to Minnesota tech regardless of where he lives)!

We wish them both happy trails and listen for why Robert believes that, “…the Geek Squad is the de facto genius bar for Android.”

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Speed Limit 35 & the song “Throb” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Lisa Grimm: As SXSWers Get Desperate, Austinites Get Enterprising and SXSW Adding Great New Wrinkle for 2012: ‘Startup Village’
• Robert Stephens: A new frontier for Robert Stephens and  My Next Chapter and Best Buy’s Chief Geek Checks Out
• Former Starbucks exec to be Best Buy digital chief 
• New iPad launch day: specs, release date, price, and more! and Why the New iPad is So Huge for Apple 
• John Batelle’s event (Federated Media)
• Dollar Shave Club (you must watch the CEOs video…best launch video ever)

Upcoming Events:

• March 13: Entrepreneur’s Rally
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 160 – The de facto ‘Genius Bar’ for Android is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Details in the embedded PDF below or go directly to the registration page.

Entrepreneur’s Rally at CoCo Minneapolis is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Marty Wetherall

Social media ‘chatter’ seems to be growing exponentially and the services capitalizing upon it are being launched, or accelerated, by the week. Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at Fallon and co-founder of Fanchatter, joins us to talk about what’s happening with his startup and about the growth of social chatter overall.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Mario Tomic & the song “Blue Note” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Project Skyway’s new class of entrepreneurs
• Google: I’m Being Followed and Keeping Google From Watching Your Searches
• Mobile World Congress
• Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview 
• Facebook introduces Premium: A marketer’s dream, a user’s nightmare?
• iPad: New, faster Apple iPad expected next week and Apple expected to unveil 16GB and 32GB iPad 3 as well as 8GB iPad 2 and Apple likely to begin production of 7.85-inch iPads in 3Q12 and Channels as apps? How Apple could reinvent television
• Fanchatter has ‘chat’ at the Lady Gaga & Oprah event at Harvard 
• Bruce Springsteen Online Listening Party
• Startup Bus to SXSW and CNN on Tech Trends at SXSW
• MN Council of Non-Profits Tech & Comm event (PDF) 

Upcoming Events:

• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 159 – Social Chatter is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off today)
Music: Kaimoku & the song “Honolulu Shuffle” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Flashback Mac Trojan Horse Infections Increasing with New Variant 
• Apple getting ready to ditch the traditional iPhone, iPad, and iPod dock connector
• What we learned from the ‘Nightline’ report on Foxconn factories
• Nielsen: 66% of Americans ages 24-35 own a smartphone
• 2012 Mobile Future in Focus-comScore 
• Tablets, Tablets, Everywhere: The iPad 3 Rumor Roundup and Amazon said to be launching 10-inch Kindle Fire in coming months and  Nook Tablet 8GB official at $199, Nook Color price down to $169 and Google may enter tablet market with 7-inch design 
• Publishing tools for tablets: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and  Apple posts gorgeous new ‘how to get started as an iOS developer’ guide and Publish Your Own Book With WordPress and the Anthologize Plugin and Baker Ebook Framework and 3D Issue and Booktype (open source publishing)
• App development for normal people?: 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App and PhoneGap and Appcelerator
• Box bets on Android in business with new update, gives all users 50GB storage free
• Garrick Van Buren’s Typerighter

Upcoming Events:

• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 158 – Aloha Smartphones & Tablets is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata
Music: Charlie Crowe & the song “007” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Google caught circumventing Apple Safari cookie policy
• StarTribune Your Mobile Phone Could Have a Leak  (University of Minnesota researchers found a flaw in AT&T and T-Mobile cell towers that reveals the location of phone users.)
• iOS 5.1 to Require Permission for iOS Apps Accessing Address Book Data? 
• Android Dodges Apple iOS Address Book Debacle: But not by Much
• Will this affect MN startup 8th Bridge?:  Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy
• Apple’s new OS X “Mountain Lion” and Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview and Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion pushes iOS integration further and Apple, Suppliers Test Tablet With Smaller Screen
• Why Pinterest Is So Addictive and Pinterest keeps and engages members better than Twitter, data shows and Pinterest Copyright Issues
• Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform—From Inkling, Not Apple and Pressly
• Julio Showing off a tech jacket, RC copter and more on KARE 11 

Upcoming Events:

• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Minnov8 Gang 157 – More Donuts! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Last week a Ruby/iOS developer in Singapore, Arun Thampi, broke the story on his blog that the mobile app Path had been automatically (and without encryption) uploading ones address book en masse to their servers. The Gang discusses what happened and what it means as this one blog post exploded in to what Tim Elliott describes as “Pathgate.”

Who better to talk with us about this entire brouhaha than local mobile developer Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome, now part of Code42 Software. We talk to him about this “gate” scandal, what else is going on in mobile development, and what you should fear about releasing (or not) with your mobile app.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: AjT & the song “Apple Chunk Guitar” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Path Scandal: The story that started it all and Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’ and Mike Arrington: HEY PATH, JUST NUKE ALL THE DATA
• Apple: Apple doesn’t enforce its own Address Book policy and iOS Address Book access should prompt the user for permission 
• Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever and Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It and Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins and Pinterest is spamming your Facebook friends’ email with fake connection requests

Upcoming Events:

• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Minnov8 Gang 156 – Pathgate, Privacy & Phones is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

We humans are not going to get less mobile (though our waistlines might state otherwise) and new mobile devices, apps, and ways to connect us all will only continue to become better and more prolific. As such, knowing trends in mobile, how to (and what’s involved in) develop mobile apps, and what you should do next are just a few of the things you need to know if you have any interest in the mobile space.

This is the primary reason that you need to make certain you attend MobileMarchTC (and maybe bring along that young person you’ve given advice to!). The agenda just came out and the press release is after the jump which you can read after clicking “(more…)” below.

MobileMarchTC not only looks like a fabulous event, in my estimation you would need to travel to San Francisco or New York to find a mobile event to rival it. Event registration can be found at http://mobilemarchtc.eventbrite.com/.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 9th, 2012

Annual Mobile March Grows to Two Days

Twin Cities’ premiere mobile event announces agenda including
more business-focused sessions and developer workshops.

Minneapolis, MN – The Organizers of Mobile March, today announced the agenda for it’s third annual mobile event to be held on March 16-17, 2012 at the Embassy Suites-Minneapolis Airport. This year’s event new two day agenda grows to include more business and marketing focused session as well long-form developer workshops. In addition, a third track of learning includes sessions and information in Mobile Development and Mobile Business as well as a new General Knowledge track.

In its third year Mobile March focuses on a very active mobile environment in the Twin Cities and throughout the Midwest.  Mobile March’s Justin Grammens noted, “Each year there is more and more things happening in mobile here. We want to offer information and insight to anyone interested in mobile but also provide a deeper involvement for developers. That’s why we’ve added Friday’s workshops covering iOS, Android and Windows Phone” Linda Cummings, event co-organizer also noted, “Business is moving more and more toward mobile, including integrating it into a marketing strategy or a communication platform for their employees. We’ve really focused on offering more business insight during the additional day.”

The agenda, available online at www.mobilemarchtc.com, includes Mobile Business track sessions like: Loyalty through Mobile, Games in iOS and Android, and Actionable Mobile Stats and Trends for 2012. The Mobile Technical Track includes: 3D Programming for iOS- What is OpenGL ES and how does it fit into the Apple-verse, Windows Phone 7: From Zero to App and the popular platform showdown, this year featuring iOS and Windows Phone. New General Sessions include session entitled: Mobile in Learning, What Can The Beatles Teach Us About Mobile Web Design and iPhone, QR Codes, and HTML5 (Oh, My!)

Registration is now open for Mobile March, Friday March 16^th and Saturday March 17th at the Embassy Suites-Minneapolis Airport via the Mobile March website at www.mobilemarchtc.com or directly through the event registration at http://mobilemarchtc.eventbrite.com/.

About Mobile March

Founded by Justin Grammens, Phil Wilson and Linda Cummings in 2010. Mobile March is an event dedicated to exploring the latest in mobile technology and trends. The name Mobile March not only denotes the month in which it takes place, it also emphasizes the ongoing advancement and growth of mobile technology and the related lifestyle.

By offering content that appeals to mobile developers, business people, and users we hope to facilitate a greater understanding between the constituencies that make mobile happen.  Whether you make money with mobile or just use it to stay connected, we invite you to join us for Mobile March.

Event sponsors include: Code 42 Software, Livefront, PDS, Verizon, MixMobi, Microsoft, The Nerdery, W3i, Sundog, Recursive Awesome, RemainComm and Focus Business Development.

CONTACT:  Phil Wilson

612-743-7860

phil@mobilemarchtc.com

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