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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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Minnov8 Gang 60: Staying Ahead of the Storm in 2010

12. December 2009

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This week’s show is about possibilities with tablets, predictions made by an analyst firm, and a hodge-podge of stuff discussed by the Minnov8 Gang. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.Music by Endlouz and the tune is, “Bad Advice” (Disclaimer: This was NOT chosen as an indictment on the commentary by the Gang!) Discussed during [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 59: Live from Minnebar

22. November 2009

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Two of the four Gang members made it to Minnebar at the headquarters of Best Buy this past Saturday. All feedback was it was a fabulous event and Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson recorded this week’s podcast live at the event.

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Minnov8 Gang 58: Defragging Defrag & Other ‘Net Stuff

14. November 2009

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After our week hiatus, the Minnov8 Gang is back at it with a podcast covering Graeme Thickins’ trip to the DeFrag conference and his liveblogging of it. After that we discuss local events (e.g., Minnebar), WCCO, Wordpress and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music by blues singer Candy Kayne [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 57: Journalism & Social Media

30. October 2009

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Phenomenal discussion at today’s Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP) at the Summit Brewery where the meeting was held. The discussion was on “Social Media and Journalism” and was facilitated by Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda), a technology writer and columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and author of the book, Twitter Means Business (and a frequent [...]

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