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Every day I scan hundreds of blog posts, articles and tweets having to do with technology. Included in that scanning is a 4-5 times per day viewing of Techmeme, the technology ‘conversation tracker’ that connects key articles and posts with those who’ve linked to it, enabling you and I to see what the hot stories [...]
Continue reading...MPR: Where is innovation in Minnesota?
28. July 2010
Minnesota Public Radio has a subsite called MPRNewsQ with an online poll for ‘select’ Minnesotans: Where is the innovation in your field? At the head of the poll they state, “Innovation: The health of the economy depends on it. Our schools are meant to encourage it. But innovation isn’t a widget that can be stamped [...]
Continue reading...The Joy of Infiltration Champions Open Game Development
15. July 2010
The mind of Zach Johnson is an interesting place. While much of it remains unexplored it’s filled with plenty of ideas, projects and fun. We last talked with Zach about Scribbls, a great site where doodles can give birth to hilarious results that he and his Watermelon Sauce partner Paul Armstrong developed. His most recent [...]
Continue reading...Congresswoman Calls for Skype Use?
13. July 2010
UPDATE 7/18/10: If this doesn’t prove the point of this article…nothing does. Security expert Bruce Schneier posts, “Skype’s Cryptography Reverse-Engineered” and if this proves to be true, it would be trivial for rogue nations or eavesdroppers to listen-in on Congressional Skype conversations! In a time when cybersecurity has become the new battleground among nations and [...]
Continue reading...OnCorps Reports: A MN Success Story
10. June 2010
While running strategic alliances at Lawson Software back in 2005, I met a woman named Catherine Settanni who was actively involved in digital literacy and a true advocate for ensuring that as many people as possible had access to the internet. Her leadership in the AmeriCorps Community Techology Empowerment Project (C-CAN) and its focused community [...]
Continue reading...Best Buy Announces Movies & TV Online
18. May 2010
With the acceleration of online movie and TV show distribution from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Apple along with on-demand access from cable company services, it was inevitable that Best Buy would get in to this online distribution business. Best Buy Co. Inc today announced the availability of its new digital video service CinemaNow which [...]
Continue reading...StarTribune: Digital books put on hold at UofMN
10. May 2010
Last Monday Minnov8 contributor, Liz Geil, posted about the UofMN project to have Google digitize many important volumes in the library system. The StarTribune had an article today about the initiative to enable a million University of Minnesota books to be digitally copied by Google under a plan to put the world’s libraries online. But most [...]
Continue reading...University of Minnesota Participates in Google Books Project
26. April 2010
A recent news release from the University of Minnesota announced that they have sent their first shipment of books over to Google to participate in the Google Books project. The University of Minnesota is the first school in the state to participate in this program. The initiative will take approximately two years to complete. The [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Wins Battle Over the FCC
7. April 2010
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overstepped their authority when it issued a citation in 2008 against Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable company, for slowing some Internet traffic on its network. This deals a blow to internet-based commerce, peer-to-peer usage and other forms [...]
Continue reading...Did The Ultra High-Speed Broadband Taskforce Blow It?
1. April 2010
Just over an hour ago I received an email blast from the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Broadband Task Force (you can see it after the jump) with a letter from the Task Force Chair, Rick King, lauding their achievement. While I’m a fan (and friend) of the member who represented the Twin Cities metro area, Mike [...]
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4. August 2010
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