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Minnov8 Gang 70: Talking w/Meg Canada & Rick Mahn from SXSWi

13. March 2010

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This week’s podcast features a conversation with local Minnesotans and social media players Meg Canada (@megcanada) and SMBMSP founder Rick Mahn (@rickmahn; blog) from the South by Southwest® conference in Austin, Texas. Billed as, “The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 69: “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

6. March 2010

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Opportunity and growth is all around us and glimmers of it are appearing in the web, mobile and other tech spaces. But are you willing to take the risks, explore and deal with all the obstacles in the way of you seeking riches? In the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Humphrey Bogart’s character Dobbs, and [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 68: Falling Through the Cloud?

20. February 2010

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The reliability of the cloud is something that is discussed whenever there is a major outage of any kind. Wordpress.com’s outage this past week took down sites like TechCrunch, GigaOM and over 10.2M other blogs. Media Temple (a place Tim and Steve host sites at) has consistent issues with slowness on their Grid Service [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow?

13. February 2010

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme is off this week)Music by Mean Gene Kelton and the Diehards and the tune is “Running from the Law”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley. + Google Buzz + Greg Litman (WCCO News & Sports producer) post on Arik Hanson’s blog + Juicy Lucy controversy + Phil’s video interview with Chris [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 66: Flat Is The New Up?

6. February 2010

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Is it true that “Flat Is The New Up?” Not if you’re a company just outside St. Cloud, Sartell-based w3i, which is consistently proving that “Up Is The New Up” every quarter through quite impressive and sustained growth. Our guest on this week’s podcast, co-founder Rob Weber (@robertjweber), tells us how they got started and what they’re [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 65: Talking the Apple iPad

30. January 2010

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Thursday’s Apple iPad launch was the most hotly anticipated technology launch event in years. To say there was enthusiasm for the device amongst many is obvious, but the disappointment felt by technologists and geeks is palpable. We explore the iPad — it’s good points and bad — with Julio Ojeda Zapata, the St. Paul Pioneer [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 64: “Less Talk, More Walk”

23. January 2010

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In a post yesterday entitled, “Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk“, tech recruiter Paul DeBettignies (MNHeadhunter) wrote a rant about what’s wrong and right about efforts within Minnesota to connect us all. With over 30 tweets and 50 comments since last night — most of which had strong opinions [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

17. January 2010

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Talk about cloud computing is on the lips of people from startups to enterprise to the government, and Minnesota has a world-class thought leader right here in our midst. The Minnov8 Gang chatted with George Reese about his perspectives, books, upcoming events, and what he thinks about software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and how API’s fit in to this [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 62: Our 2010 Predictions

2. January 2010

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Predicting 2010 technology is always a crapshoot, but there are enough clear trends that we weigh in with our predictions for this upcoming year and cover these key categories: Mobile; the Apple tablet; Curation of content/self publishing; Cloud computing; and some wildass predictions about Minnesota tech in 2010. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 61: Mobile & the Groovy Kids

19. December 2009

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Today’s show covers mobile developments for certain, but we also talk about several other things like yesterday’s Social Media Breakfast (SMBMSP), venture capital in Minnesota, cloud computing initiatives by Visi, and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music by Straight 8’s and the tune is, “Ann Bowman” Discussed during the show: StarTribune article on [...]

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