Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

Discussed during the show:

• TiE Minnesota “Startups & Mentors”
• Local startup funding report here and Kidblog and Heroic and FanChatter
• Facebook Raises $16 Billion In Record Technology Offering and Two men rob internet cafe at gunpoint, but forget to log out of Facebook first 
• Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches and Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality 
• Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens
• Multiple Nexus devices could be a game-changer for Google and Android
• Google Shifts Tack on Android 
• GMAIL: Google Locks Me Out Gmail. Seriously? and Julio takes the leap: Web-based Gmail only and Google promises to migrate Google Apps users’ Google+ accounts within weeks, has yet to do so after six months and Fluid App
• TRAVEL: Travelers Telecom and Scott e-Vest

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 169 – Does This Make Me Look Dorky? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

What struck us after the show recording was how far the world has come with technology since that shows debut in 1960…in black & white. Rotary dial phones, cooking only on stoves (what, no microwave?), and a community isolated due to the slow movement of communications (huh? no internet?), we’ve come a long way.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson as “Floyd the Barber” (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

Discussed during the show:

• Bing deepens Facebook integration, connecting searchers with friends and New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google’s Search Plus Your World and Head-To-Head: Bing’s Social Search Vs. Google’s Search Plus Your World
• Apple reportedly dropping Google Maps, launching new 3D mapping service in iOS 6 and Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”
• Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? and Samsung Galaxy S III and The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers and HTC One X & S and HTC EVO 4G LTE
• Pebble smart watch sells out and The Vergecast 030 (Pebble founder interview)
• Apple making a $799 Air in fear of ultrabooks? Nope
• OpenStreetMap
• Confirmed: European mobile data roaming costs to fall 
• Bluetooth 4 

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 168 – Goober says “Hey!” is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Johnnys Deathray Boogie” by Johnny Nicholas from the podsafe Music Alley

Guest Segment: We were pleased to have on the always delightful and incredibly mobile knowledgeable Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter)

Discussed during the show:

• Best Buy’s Brian Dunn out: Best Buy: Dunn Is Done; Is The Retailer Doomed, Too? and Why Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Had To Quit and Best Buy: CEO Brian Dunn resigns over ‘personal conduct’ issue and Cringley’s article on why Best Buy is Doomed
• Is Instagram Really Worth $1B? Really? Facebook and Instagram: Made for Each Other and Insta-rich: How Instagram became a $1-billion company in 18 months and Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble?
• Does Windows Phone Have Any Chance Of Market Traction? Nokia, AT&T launch the Lumia 900 amid few lines, strong buzz and Windows Phone will only account for 2% of app downloads in 2012, firm says
• 11 Startups That Could Get Bought For $1 Billion Tomorrow
• Apple’s New WYSIWYG App Development Tool for iOS? Will Apple’s patent granted Thursday enable app development for the masses? 
• Minnebar 2012 sessions
• Jason Calcanis post about Apple as trillion dollar company due to payments
• Tim Elliott’s team (Full Court WordPress) non-profit site built during the Overnight Website Challenge: New site; Old site

Upcoming Events:

• April (various dates): dSchool at CoCo 
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 164 – One BILLION dollars!?! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: “Universal Domain” by Dreamline from the podsafe Music Alley

Discussed during the show:

• Overnight Website Challenge: huge lineup of news here
• The Nerdery releases JSON Accelerator
• Best Buy reorg stories: Forbes here and here; Marketwatch; CNET; CNBC; and Inside Best Buy, an anonymous store manager’s take on the Best Buy announcement
• Is Google stoking up the tablet wars? and Why Google’s Tablet Store Isn’t the Nexus One All Over Again
• JAMF Software’s “Everything Apple…managed“

Upcoming Events:

• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 10th: enStratus Cloud Meetup – 5:00-8:00 PM, The Local, Minneapolis
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 163 – Is Retail Dead? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Lisa Grimm

Our second guest is none other than Chief Technology Officer of Best Buy, Robert Stephens, and his just-announced departure and the likelihood his adventure will be heading west to San Francisco. As always, Robert demonstrates how he is an incredibly accessible leader and so willing to connect with those of us in the technology trenches. He has been such a supporter and asset to the Minnesota tech community and will be sorely missed (though we suspect he’ll stay close to Minnesota tech regardless of where he lives)!

We wish them both happy trails and listen for why Robert believes that, “…the Geek Squad is the de facto genius bar for Android.”

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Speed Limit 35 & the song “Throb” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Lisa Grimm: As SXSWers Get Desperate, Austinites Get Enterprising and SXSW Adding Great New Wrinkle for 2012: ‘Startup Village’
• Robert Stephens: A new frontier for Robert Stephens and  My Next Chapter and Best Buy’s Chief Geek Checks Out
• Former Starbucks exec to be Best Buy digital chief 
• New iPad launch day: specs, release date, price, and more! and Why the New iPad is So Huge for Apple 
• John Batelle’s event (Federated Media)
• Dollar Shave Club (you must watch the CEOs video…best launch video ever)

Upcoming Events:

• March 13: Entrepreneur’s Rally
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 160 – The de facto ‘Genius Bar’ for Android is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Marty Wetherall

Social media ‘chatter’ seems to be growing exponentially and the services capitalizing upon it are being launched, or accelerated, by the week. Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at Fallon and co-founder of Fanchatter, joins us to talk about what’s happening with his startup and about the growth of social chatter overall.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Mario Tomic & the song “Blue Note” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Project Skyway’s new class of entrepreneurs
• Google: I’m Being Followed and Keeping Google From Watching Your Searches
• Mobile World Congress
• Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview 
• Facebook introduces Premium: A marketer’s dream, a user’s nightmare?
• iPad: New, faster Apple iPad expected next week and Apple expected to unveil 16GB and 32GB iPad 3 as well as 8GB iPad 2 and Apple likely to begin production of 7.85-inch iPads in 3Q12 and Channels as apps? How Apple could reinvent television
• Fanchatter has ‘chat’ at the Lady Gaga & Oprah event at Harvard 
• Bruce Springsteen Online Listening Party
• Startup Bus to SXSW and CNN on Tech Trends at SXSW
• MN Council of Non-Profits Tech & Comm event (PDF) 

Upcoming Events:

• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 159 – Social Chatter is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off today)
Music: Kaimoku & the song “Honolulu Shuffle” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Flashback Mac Trojan Horse Infections Increasing with New Variant 
• Apple getting ready to ditch the traditional iPhone, iPad, and iPod dock connector
• What we learned from the ‘Nightline’ report on Foxconn factories
• Nielsen: 66% of Americans ages 24-35 own a smartphone
• 2012 Mobile Future in Focus-comScore 
• Tablets, Tablets, Everywhere: The iPad 3 Rumor Roundup and Amazon said to be launching 10-inch Kindle Fire in coming months and  Nook Tablet 8GB official at $199, Nook Color price down to $169 and Google may enter tablet market with 7-inch design 
• Publishing tools for tablets: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and  Apple posts gorgeous new ‘how to get started as an iOS developer’ guide and Publish Your Own Book With WordPress and the Anthologize Plugin and Baker Ebook Framework and 3D Issue and Booktype (open source publishing)
• App development for normal people?: 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App and PhoneGap and Appcelerator
• Box bets on Android in business with new update, gives all users 50GB storage free
• Garrick Van Buren’s Typerighter

Upcoming Events:

• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 158 – Aloha Smartphones & Tablets is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata
Music: Charlie Crowe & the song “007” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Google caught circumventing Apple Safari cookie policy
• StarTribune Your Mobile Phone Could Have a Leak  (University of Minnesota researchers found a flaw in AT&T and T-Mobile cell towers that reveals the location of phone users.)
• iOS 5.1 to Require Permission for iOS Apps Accessing Address Book Data? 
• Android Dodges Apple iOS Address Book Debacle: But not by Much
• Will this affect MN startup 8th Bridge?:  Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy
• Apple’s new OS X “Mountain Lion” and Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview and Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion pushes iOS integration further and Apple, Suppliers Test Tablet With Smaller Screen
• Why Pinterest Is So Addictive and Pinterest keeps and engages members better than Twitter, data shows and Pinterest Copyright Issues
• Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform—From Inkling, Not Apple and Pressly
• Julio Showing off a tech jacket, RC copter and more on KARE 11 

Upcoming Events:

• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Minnov8 Gang 157 – More Donuts! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Last week a Ruby/iOS developer in Singapore, Arun Thampi, broke the story on his blog that the mobile app Path had been automatically (and without encryption) uploading ones address book en masse to their servers. The Gang discusses what happened and what it means as this one blog post exploded in to what Tim Elliott describes as “Pathgate.”

Who better to talk with us about this entire brouhaha than local mobile developer Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome, now part of Code42 Software. We talk to him about this “gate” scandal, what else is going on in mobile development, and what you should fear about releasing (or not) with your mobile app.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: AjT & the song “Apple Chunk Guitar” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Path Scandal: The story that started it all and Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’ and Mike Arrington: HEY PATH, JUST NUKE ALL THE DATA
• Apple: Apple doesn’t enforce its own Address Book policy and iOS Address Book access should prompt the user for permission 
• Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever and Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It and Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins and Pinterest is spamming your Facebook friends’ email with fake connection requests

Upcoming Events:

• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); Agenda
• March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Minnov8 Gang 156 – Pathgate, Privacy & Phones is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

The Gang talks with a data scientist (and accomplished applications developer) living here in the Twin Cities, Jamie Ostheimer. He is working with a string of startups and is deeply embedded within the world of data. Osterheimer has a PhD in Astronomy, a discipline all about the data (and no, not Commander Data from Star Trek Next Generation). Rather his focus is about the core data sets that power all of our analysis, driving insights and enabling us to gain new meanings from it.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: bluessmyth & the song “Down on My Luck” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Minneapolis startup TST Media acquires Wisconsin Sports Network site (Pioneer Press)
• Facebook’s $5 Billion IPO: The Next Google? Or The Next Groupon? 
• Zuckerberg Controlling 57% of Facebook Seen as Risk to Investors
• Facebook’s Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery
• In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad; Foxconn; Major Customers
• Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
• Employers added 243,000 jobs in January, pushing unemployment rate down to 8.3 percent 
• Jamie Ostheimer links: What Is a Data Scientist? (the diagram we discuss); Forbes article 

Upcoming Events:

• February 10-11: Startup Weekend Twin Cities III, U of M Carlson
• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: Mobile March (Mobile 3D) (Call for speakers)
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Minnov8 Gang 155 – It’s the Data is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Dr. Lisa Snyder

So does this mean we give tablets to kids and education is magically transformed? Hardly. Fortunately we have one of the thought leaders in this space in our backyard. Her name is Dr. Lisa Snyder, she is the new Lakeville MN School Superintendent, and we were pleased to have her on the show to talk about their new iLearn initiative, whether or not it’s magic, how tablets and tech fit in to it, and her perspectives on the challenges adopting new ways of teaching and learning.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Dave Hole & the song “Keep Your Motor Running” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period
• It’s the iPad announcement anniversary: January 27, 2010
• 350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple’s iBooks in Three Days
• How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books (Borsch doesn’t think so: “Too Many Don’t ‘Get’ iBooks Author”)
• Lakeville Schools Using State Funding to Help Technology Push
• Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism
• A Perspective on iPad’s Impact on Your Mind
• Are Tablets Ready for K12?
• Little Falls Gets Real About iPad technology
• Silicon Valley Wows Educators, and Woos Them
• One Laptop Per Child Launches XO 3.0 Tablet 
• Pinterest draws interest online
• JAMF Software 
• The Problem With The iOS Home Screen

Upcoming Events:

• February 10-11: Startup Weekend Twin Cities III, U of M Carlson
• February 23rd: WordPressMSP at The Nerdery
• February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
• February 24-25: MinneWIC (Women in Computing)
• March 16-17: Mobile March (Mobile 3D) (Call for speakers)
• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters

Minnov8 Gang 154 – iPad, iLearn is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Jake Lear & their song “Kiss Me” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Best Buy gets slammed in Forbes
• Best Buy CEO Defends Himself Against Reports That His Company Is Slowly Dying
• Brian’s Whiteboard (Best Buy CEO’s blog) direct link
• Bloomberg story says Best Buy is a buyout candidate
• Best Buy reacts to price-checking smartphone app
• For Best Buy, holidays were good enough (Star Tribune)
• Apple to open new store-within-a-store outlets inside Target this year
• Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA (by Steve Blank via Forbes)
• Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Preview of Minnesota companies
• Wired’s CES Preview 
• U.S. House’s Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) 

Upcoming Events:

• Friday, January 13th: Club Entrepreneur, 11:30am-1:00pm, Minneapolis Club. (Speaker: Mary Meehan, Cofounder, Panoramix Global)
• Thursday, January 16th: MinneDemo at 6:00 pm, Schulze Hall, University of St. Thomas (registration…but it’s sold out).
• Saturday, January 21st: Thomson Reuters Tech Event  
• Thursday, January 26th: WordPressMSP, at The Nerdery in Bloomington.
• Friday/Saturday, March 16th & 17th: Mobile March TC. Location TBD.

Minnov8 Gang 151 – Opinions Are Like Donkeys is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Ruddin & their song “Cover the Distance” from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

Carrier IQ scandal:

• Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
• Phone ‘Rootkit’ Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases
• Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple’s iOS
• Apple: We Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ With iOS 5
• Senator Al Franken Demands Carrier IQ Explain Mobile Tracking

Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales strong:

• The Kindle Fire Is Beating The iPad At Best Buy
• Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart Lead Online Sales
• Target November sales miss analysts’ expectations
• Friday’s Deals May Not Be the Best

Guest: Don Ball:

• Google Chairman Praises Mpls Entrepreneurship at CoCo 
• Where Don Ball is speaking on Dec 8th
• Important New Research to be Unveiled at GigaOM Net:Work 
• Net:Work agenda (Don Ball’s panel at 2:50 pm)

Other: Julian Assange: iPhone, Blackberry and Gmail users are ‘screwed’ – video

Upcoming Events

• Friday, December 9th: Gadgets and Gifts from Geeks to Grandmas
• Wednesday, December 7th: MOJO Mixer 2 – Speed Mentoring for Startups
• Thursday, December 15th: 1st Annual Minnesota Tech Holiday Bash
• December 10th – 13th: TIES 2011 EduTech Conference

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Minnov8 Gang 147 – Wanna Buy Some Wheat? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Listen for the discussion wrapped around Andrew’s best line of the entire podcast (in Borsch’s opinion). While discussing how Ciceron encourages clients to think about what they offer, in a world where everyone is an instant critic who can tell the world, he says in passing, “every product is an iteration of its future self.” Find out what the “new and improved” Andrew 2.0 means.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson
Music: “Zydeco Junkie” by “Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band“ via Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Macworld’s “Some Users Having Problems Upgrading to iOS5” (some users?) as well as Julio Ojeda Zapata on Fox9 News about iOS5 upgrade issues
• iPhone 4S Launch & Steve Borsch on Fox9 News about iPhone4S launch & Android
• Google earnings: Larry Page: Mobile Revenues At $2.5 Billion Run-Rate, 190 Million Android Devices
• Oops…Blackberry Outage Blamed on “Extremely Severe” Network Failure
• The end of unbundled cable? Why Hulu’s Owners Couldn’t Find A Buyer and best headline about it: “Hulu: We Couldn’t Get Some Sucker To Overpay For The Company So We’re Not Selling” (Henry Blodgett)
• CruiseCritic
• Clicker

Upcoming Events:

• Tues/Wed, Oct 11th & 12th: MIMA Summit 
• Thurs, Oct 13th: The Collaborative’s Venture Finance Conference (25th Annual!)
• Wednesday, October 26th: Tech Entrepreneurs Rally at CoCo
• Thursday, October 27th: WordPressMSP 
• Friday, Oct 28th: Social Media Breakfast MSP on Community Mgmt
• Friday, November 4th (weekly): Frontend Masters Workshop Series
• Sat, November 12th: ProductCamp Minnesota 3

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Minnov8 Gang 141 – Everything’s a Beta is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata
Music: “Even Meaner” by “Mean Gene Kelton & the Diehards“ via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Steve Jobs’ passing (Julio’s excellent post; New Yorker article: “Steve Jobs at the Pearly Gates”; Wall Street Journal about: Who Will Be the ‘Next Steve Jobs’?; Mike Evangelist’s blog, Writer’s Block 
• Apple iPhone 4S; Why iPhone screen is 3.5 inches 
• Samsung/Google postpone Nexus Prime with IceCreamSandwich out of respect for Steve
• Minnedemo & Edutech & TECHCocktail
• Sprint betting the farm on iPhone?
• Best Buy unloads Napster. Sells to Rhapsody. (“Napsody”?)
• MN’s 365,000 VC-backed jobs. 8th largest innovator: “Putting Money and Ventures Together“
• Paradox of Choice 

Minnov8 Gang 140 – Heaven is no Apple Store is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

[This post was originally published earlier today on Tech~Surf~Blog.]

I felt it. I didn’t know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the EduTech MN conference at the University of Minnesota. I was actually finishing a blog post on my MacBook Air, and hadn’t even intended to stay for the panel (the startup pitches were over).

But I was surprisingly drawn in by the discussion. I was blown away by what these people, senior educators, were saying — showing so much passion, speaking from the heart, talking about how kids are learning today. They just lit up as they described how the new tablet and mobile technologies are opening up worlds for these kids like nothing they’d ever seen before. The iPad, the iPod Touch, and all the great software these Apple devices have engendered.

I found myself beaming from ear to ear as I listened to them describe their real-life experiences, with such excitement in their voices.  These aren’t boring educators, I thought!  These are really dedicated, committed people who work on the front lines, whose worlds revolve around how our children learn, and how they can make that process better for them, every single day. And, thanks to technology and a certain company named Apple, they have more and more amazing tools to help them do that. It was a special experience for me, as someone not involved much in the world of education. I’m so glad I stayed.

I sat there and thought to myself — right at that very moment — “Wow, would Steve Jobs be proud to be hearing this right now.”

I like to think he was.

Steve, you didn’t just change technology, media, music, and retailing forever.  You changed education, too — in a big, big way. We thank you. We will greatly miss you.

But we know we’ll see the mark you made on this world for a long, long time to come, in the eyes of children everywhere.

[Left to right on the panel: Jesse Thorstad, technology specialist, Fergus Falls school district; Dave Eisenmann, director of instructional tech, Minnetonka school district; Jennifer Sly, MN Historical Society; and Jay Haugen, Superintendent, Farmington school district. The panel was moderated by State Senator Terri Bonoff.]

Something Amazing Happened at #EduTechMN Yesterday – Steve Jobs Was in the Room is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off).
Music: “Give Blues a Chance” by “Mean Gene Kelton & the Diehards“ via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Apple iPhone event announced for next Tuesday 
• Amazon Kindle “Fire”
• Chris Espinosa, Apple employee #8 (and still at Apple) personally blogged about the troubling nature of the Kindle Fire “Silk” web browser and the security implications
• Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it click Buy?
• Microsoft Shores up Samsung & HTC with Android patents
• Kris Layon will be speaking at MIMA Summit
• Capella’s iPhone app (there is also an Android version)
• English Books for Thai School – Can You Help? 
• “Facebook Won’t Like This Apple-Twitter Union” (FastCompany)
• “Amazon’s ‘Silk’ Browser Is Revolutionary: Here’s Why It’s So Important” (Business Insider)
• “The One Huge Reason Amazon Will Not Beat Apple” (Business Insider)

M8 Gang Podcast 139 – Capella U Mobile’s Kristofer Layon is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Ben Theis, Google

Our guest this week is Ben Theis, Field Marketing Lead for Google in Minnesota (and part of a team of five). He talks about what he’s doing here, initiatives that Google has underway in Minnesota, and some very interesting factoids about the lack of online presence with small businesses.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: “Full Circle” by Clintone via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Minnesota Emerging Software Advisory (MESA)
• Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all
• Best Buy in serious trouble? (be sure to read the comments); Best Buy CMO Barry Judges’ response; Best Buy’s Cowboom 
• Google Claims $1B of Economic Impact in MN in ’10; Google Adwords Express; Google Adwords 
• Multiple iPhones in October? Al Gore says so 
• HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
• English Books for Thai School – Can You Help? 

Minnov8 Gang 138 – Fate…or Plus? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: “The Favourite” by Dig via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Tekne Awards-Finalists
• About Windows 8; Windows 8 Gets Sad New Blue Screen of Death
• Laptop, Tablet Differences May Fade, Intel Says (WSJ Digits Blog)
• DEMO Conference
• Graeme’s live-blog of DEMO Fall 2011; All Graeme’s posts tagged DEMO Fall 2011
• Video of onstage pitch at DEMO of Minneapolis startup Me&MyMoney
• The DEMO People’s Choice Award winner (and one of five DEMO God winners): Aurasma
• Interview with Ernest Grumbles on patents.

Upcoming Events:

• Tuesday, Sept 20th: Mobile Twin Cities
• Thursday, Sept 22nd: WordPressMSP
• Saturday, Sept 24th: She’s Geeky Unconference
• Minnedemo – Tentatively scheduled the first week of October
• Tuesday, Oct 11th & 12th: MIMA Summit 

Minnov8 Gang 137 – Major Mojo Baby! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off).
Music: “Leave This Town” by Jake Lear via Music Alley.

DISCUSSED DURING THE SHOW:

• The launch of three local news apps for the iPad in one week: St. Paul Pioneer Press, StarTribune & WCCO
• Lots of Android tablets (shown at CES…not yet all shipped) and Ars Technica explains Android Fragmentation

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Sunday, August 22nd, Noon-4pm MinneBar-B-Cue
• Friday, August 26th, 8am, SMBMSP: Social SEO with Lee Odden
• Thursday, September 8th, 5-7pm, MN Cup 2011 Final Awards Event, U of M McNamara Center (NOTE: the finalists in six divisions to be named August 19th)

The Minnov8 Gang will off the next two Friday’s and back on Friday, September 2nd with an all new show!

Minnov8 Gang 135 – Take a Tablet is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.