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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 [...]

StarTribune: Digital books put on hold at UofMN

10. May 2010

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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 [...]

University of Minnesota Participates in Google Books Project

26. April 2010

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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 [...]

Comcast Wins Battle Over the FCC

7. April 2010

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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 [...]

Did The Ultra High-Speed Broadband Taskforce Blow It?

1. April 2010

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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 [...]

MinneWebCon: An interview with its director, Kris Layon

26. March 2010

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What most of don’t get to do before making a decision to attend an event that costs money is to understand the vision, depth and texture that lies behind a conference. Knowing this helps to determine the level of the sessions, their quality and whether it’s worth your investment of both time and money. MinneWebCon, [...]

24 Hours, a New Site and Real Fun.

22. March 2010

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Some 36 hours after the conclusion of the event and after about 11 hours of sleep I am still amazed by the experience that is the Overnight Website Challenge. In case you missed it, I joined fellow Minnov8er Tim Elliott’s Team, dubbed Full Court Press as a bond to the WordPress platform we used, for [...]

Minnov8 Gang 71: At the Overnight Website Challenge

21. March 2010

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Tim Elliott started a team for the Overnight Website Challenge called “Full Court Press” and the team members are comprised of folks in the Minneapolis/St. Paul WordPress Users Group. He and Phil Wilson hosted an on-site podcast this week by having a conversation with Mark, one of the Nerdery founders of the Challenge as well [...]

WCCO Launches ‘The Wire’. Connect Your Own Dots

18. March 2010

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People in Twin Cities social media circles got a sneak peek at WCCO’s The Wire last October and its promise looked intriguing. We here at Minnov8 were particularly pleased to see John Daenzer and crew be so bold and embracing risk as it pertains to delivering news in an increasingly changing (and fragmented) media landscape. [...]

Google’s High-Fiber City: Why Not Duluth?

16. March 2010

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I can see the signs now as I tool into to town on I-35…Welcome to Duluth, Now With More Fiber! You may not know it but the clock is clicking down to Google’s deadline, March 26th, for nominations of cities interested in being their laboratory for an “ultra high-speed fiber network”. In fact, that clock [...]

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