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‘The New Industrial Revolution’ and Minnesota

24. January 2010

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I absolutely love it when my new WIRED magazine shows up in the mail.  Hey, I read as much as the next guy online (on my little 13″ Macbook screen, or my iPhone), but I still love excellence in print — good ol’ ink on dead trees. And WIRED continues to stand out in this [...]

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Web Design Workshop/Seminar for Creatives

3. September 2009

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If you’re a designer creating websites, web applications are someone working with a developer on a project or initiative, then this workshop and seminar will empower you with the things you should know before you design your first website; what the content management system Drupal can do for you and your clients; and simple [...]

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Microsoft Launches Expression 3 & Sketchflow

10. July 2009

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Saw a tweet yesterday from my buddy, Microsoft’s Doug Olson, that said, “Getting ready for a very exciting day tomorrow — the culmination of why I am working at Microsoft.” He was either finally getting a free Zune, he’d completed that Redmond, WA to White Bear Lake, MN fun run, or his group was going [...]

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Best Buy at Google I/O

3. June 2009

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Best Buy’s Ben Hedrington and Curtis Thompson were out at Google I/O (Google’s developer conference held May 27 -- 28, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco) and were grabbed on the floor at “The Developer Sandbox” to briefly describe how Best Buy is leveraging the Google App Engine. Google describes the Sandbox: “The Developer Sandbox [...]

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Best Buy Challenges You to Remix

25. April 2009

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Anyone born in 1978, and now in their early thirties, never knew a time when there weren’t mainstream personal computers. For the most part, those who entered this world in the late 1980’s (and are in their twenties like my daughter), haven’t lived in a time when PC’s weren’t in their school or at home, [...]

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Oracle Drinks Up Sun: MySQL Questions Remain…

20. April 2009

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…Like is LAMP now LAMOP? I’m personally aware of over 40 projects here in flyover country that are not only leveraging — but are wholly reliant on — MySQL. To make matters worse (and admittedly selfish on my part) our company uses MySQL across all our web properties. To see that megalith Oracle purchased [...]

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Upcoming Book on Hottest I.T. Trend: ‘Cloud Computing’

27. October 2008

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Whether you’re in the computer business or not, chances are you’re hearing a ton about “computing in the cloud.” It’s widely being hailed as the top information technology (I.T.) buzzword of the year, thanks to applications many of us use every day — no matter what business we’re in — such as Google Mail or other [...]

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Next MinneDemo

3. October 2008

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Next MinneDemo to be held November 12th at 7pm and will be held at: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave South in Minneapolis. (via MNInteractive).

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Visi: A Minnesota Provider Growing to Meet Demand

25. September 2008

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Visi, a company many of us are familiar with since their founding in 1994, is Minnesota’s largest locally-owned managed hosting and connectivity provider (11,000 business and residential customers which includes thousands of DSL customers). What most don’t know is that they’re expanding right here in Eden Prairie, with a Tier III data center, in order [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 3

23. August 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Garrick Van Buren, Phil Wilson After vacations and business travel this summer, we carve out time on a Saturday morning for another Minnov8 Gang podcast with Episode 3. In it we talk about several Minnesota startups and companies (including our own, with some admittedly self-serving comments!): - PartnerUp Being Acquired by [...]

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