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mIQ: Best Buy’s Cloud-based Sync & Backup

8. October 2009

Vendors like Apple and Google recognize that the cloud is central to the mobile experience. Without the ability to access ones data, sync to the desktop, laptop netbook (and soon, a tablet?) with our mobile smartphones whether we’re stationary or mobile, our digital life is fraught with nothing but frustration. The center of the action [...]

Fallon Releases Free Social App?

27. March 2009

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As social media and networking continues its advance and integration in to the very fabric of our lives (which is especially the case as more of us become a part of the always on, always connected online culture) it continually intrigues us at Minnov8 that most organizations are still either taking a wait-n-see attitude toward [...]

Mayo Accelerates Their Online Presence

22. January 2009

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Mayo Clinic today announced the launch of what they’re calling its “culture blog”, Sharing Mayo Clinic, which provides an online site for patients and employees to share their stories about what makes Mayo Clinic unique. This WordPressMU delivered blog is clearly focusing on uplifting stories of individual patient and employee experiences. While initially interesting, I [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 19

3. January 2009

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Our kickoff podcast for 2009 is a discussion with guest Kevin Matheny, self-described “E-business Architect & Open API guy for Best Buy” and founder of the innovative Best Buy Remix Developer Network effort. Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Our discussion surrounded a variety of topics: - How did the [...]

Mashup Best Buy

23. September 2008

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Best Buy has released Remix at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, allowing anyone to create a mashup with Best Buy online catalog content. An application programming interface (API) — documented though light on code or examples — allows queries into Best Buy’s online catalog and results to be returned from those queries. As [...]

3M Unveils Handheld Projector

14. September 2008

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Imagine you are expecting to present to an investor, a customer or a single client, and several people show up? You could have everyone crowd around your laptop and hope to see what you’re presenting, or instead you could pull this tiny 3M projector out of your briefcase or backpack and ensure everyone could see [...]

Working Out While Working the ‘Net

1. August 2008

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Spending a little too much time either coding that web application or sitting on your duff using all of them as the number of online opportunities for time investment explodes on today’s internet and web? Our friend, Paul DeBettignies of MNHeadhunter, included Minnov8′s Graeme Thickins on an email, and we thought our readers — many [...]

Thirty Semifinalists Named in ‘Minnesota Cup’ Business Plan Competition

29. June 2008

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I attended and Twittered a bit at a reception Wednesday evening, June 25, at the grand, old James J. Hill Library in downtown St. Paul. (You remember old J.J., don’t you, the Bill Gates of his era?) It was an event to honor the startups who made it to the next round of the Minnesota [...]

BlueShirtNation: Success from Risking Failure

27. June 2008

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Connecting thousands of high turnover, twenty-something retail employees into some sort of cohesive and connected online network would seem worthy of senior executive leadership, strategy formation, funding, project managers and endless meetings to ensure that it was aligning with the goals and objectives set forth at the outset. None of that happened with one of [...]

Budget Hero Arrives Compliments of American Public Media

10. June 2008

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Now that the two major parties have chosen their candidates both are weighing their choices for a running mate. Perhaps your work on the National budget could put you on the short list. The recently released on-line game “Budget Hero” launched in May by American Public Media in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center [...]

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