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 [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2008
Next MinneDemo to be held November 12th at 7pm and will be held at: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave South in Minneapolis. (via MNInteractive).
Continue reading...25. September 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...23. August 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2008
Earlier this summer, Bruno Bornsztein released the code behind his niché social-networking sites Curbly, Uncooped as an open-source project called: CommunityEngine. CommunityEngine is a complete, white-label social network app wrapped up as a Ruby on Rails plugin making it easy to integrate forums, blogs, and user profiles into an existing web application or a stand-alone [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2008
Minneapolis is getting a new affinity group of .Net developers called Alt.Net. Jamie Thingelstad just gave me a heads-up to his post about this group, knowing that some Minnov8 readers might like to attend. What is “Alt.Net”. From their site: At it’s purest, the driving force behind the ALT.NET developer community may be described simply [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2008
CentralStandardTech, a site tended by Minnesota geek Luke Francl (yes, that Luke from Minnebar and Minnedemo fame), is one I frequent to stay appraised of all things tech in our State and is in my #1 folder of feeds in my RSS reader. From a great tech blogroll to a calendar of events and, especially, [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
DoApp has had a busy week. Their MyLite and MyTo-Do applications are currently available and moving up the rankings via the iPhone Apps Store and Magic 8 Ball and Whoopee Cushion are waiting in the wings. Current stats include MyLite ranking #8 overall on Top Free Apps, and #1 in Top Free Apps in the [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2008
San Francisco firm Adaptive Path, a leading experience strategy and design company, is holding a user experience (UX), intermediate-to-advanced workshop in Minneapolis at The Depot on June 16-19th. minnov8.com readers get 15% off the registration price by using code UXIM when registering (on top of the Early Bird price before May 31st).
Continue reading...12. May 2008
If one had any doubt about the intensity of our state’s information technology and Internet community, one only had to be anywhere inside the U’s Coffman Union on Saturday for the third annual Minnebar “unconference” (part of an international phenomenon called Barcamp). To say the joint was a-jumpin’ simply does not suffice. And numbers alone [...]
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27. October 2008
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