Archive | Internet & Web RSS feed for this section
WCCO Launches ‘The Wire’. Connect Your Own Dots
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. [...]
Continue reading...Google’s High-Fiber City: Why Not Duluth?
16. March 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Why the FCC Broadband Plan Matters
14. March 2010
On Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is delivering their Broadband Plan to Congress. Most of us in the tech community are anticipating the plan and are eager to read it in its entirety when released. Within this plan, the FCC has the unenviable task of encapsulating the complexities of the markets, technologies, other country’s use [...]
Continue reading...Comcast’s Oscar Fail Followup “We Dunno”
8. March 2010
This morning’s post, “Comcast’s Oscars Fail in MN” was one that’s received a fair amount of traffic today and in it I promised I’d update you, so here you go. Moments ago I got off the phone with Mary Beth Schubert, Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Comcast in Minnesota. While pleased to receive an [...]
Continue reading...Comcast’s MN Oscars Fail
8. March 2010
Though the problem seemed to begin on Friday with our Comcast cable TV service, we didn’t much care until the family sat down to watch the 82nd Academy Awards and the video stuttering and audio dropouts were so horrifically bad that it was almost unwatchable. Rebooting the device during a commercial break was a mistake [...]
Continue reading...Jonathan Zittrain on Minds for Sale
26. February 2010
One of the thought leading places I follow is the Berkman Center at Harvard University and their podcast/webcast delivery vehicle called MediaBerkman, whose focus is to “…feature conversations with and talks by leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore topics such as the factors that influence knowledge creation and dissemination in the digital age; [...]
Continue reading...Pew Internet’s “Future of the Internet IV”
20. February 2010
If you rely upon the internet in any way for your startup, business, learning or to feed your addiction to World of Warcraft, you’ll be interested that Pew Internet has released their fourth report on the internet’s future entitled, “Future of the Internet IV“. It’s a survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders which reveals fascinating [...]
Continue reading...Curation Station…Sweeping the Nation?
18. February 2010
Ah, the web… a veritable treasure trove of knowledge, an endless stream of news and information. Actually, it’s more of a flood of facts and opinions that would make even Noah a might uncomfortable. How is the average web surfer to keep up if they want to…let alone the media marketer that must keep up [...]
Continue reading...Visions of Tomorrow, Yesterday
17. February 2010
If you, like I, follow the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) Twitter feed (@MNHS) then you might already have stumbled across an interesting lecture which may also have led you to a delightful St. Paul blog. Stumble indeed. It was pure happenstance that I came across a compelling MNHS lecture called, “History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrow” [...]
Continue reading...The FTC Talks Guides
30. January 2010
Recently I had a chance to join local IP Attorney Ernest Grumbles for an edition of his BP/G Radio Intellectual Property Podcast. Along with his co-host Joe Bennett-Paris we had the chance to talk with Mary K. Engle, Associate Director, FTC Division of Advertising Practices about the infamous Guides for the Use of Endorsements and [...]
Continue reading...- 3M Company supports SOPA
- Minnov8 Gang 150 - All Seeing, All Knowing?
- StarTribune Debuts iPad App
- CoCoMSP Adds the "M"
- Project Skyway Boot-Camp Weekend...Wow!
- Minnov8 Gang Podcast 131 - Deals Baby!
- Minnov8 Gang 134 - GooglyAppSoft
- Minnov8 Gang 135 - Take a Tablet
- DEMO: Me & My Money
- U of MN Center for Spirituality & Healing's Mobile App
- Graeme Thickins: haha - Travelodge FTW!!!!!...
- Lief Larson: Thanks Graeme! I'll have you know as I'm typing t...
- Tim Esse: I live in MN and work for "iCompany" and in the pa...
- Jack Aber: I've heard Lynn on NPR's Science Friday and quite ...
- PXLated: Just a quick comment while it dawned on me why I l...
- U of MN Paying Professors $500 to Review Open Textbooks
- Minnesota: A Great Place to Be for SaaS Companies
- The War for Talent: Are Minnesota Tech Companies and Startups Ready?
- “Your Inner Neandertal” DNA Day Talk
- Improving Data Integrity for Analysis
- Minnov8 Gang 154 – iPad, iLearn
- Mobile Text Message “Cramming” Scam
- Student Led Technology Conference
- UnitedHealth Group’s Booth at CES
- Workface Adds Status
Minnov8 Gang Podcast
Minnov8 Twitter
Become a member & support MN news:
18. March 2010
5 Comments