Minnov8 Gang 215 – We be jammin’

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Several good Minnesota stories this week, including about JamStik, a cool device that works with iPad for teaching guitar. We be jammin' now, heh? Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week). Music: Surfin' with Slayer from … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 214 – Chatting with Fido?

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Several good Minnesota stories this week, including how to talk to 'Fido' when you're away from your home and whether or not your dog even thinks you're really there or doesn't care! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music: Please … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 210 – The Internet is Broken?

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Steve returns to The Gang after 3 weeks and Phil is spring breaking but three of us dissect the top stories of the week including Best Buy's founder returning, did hackers really break the internet last week and T-Mobile's aggressive announcements. Hosts: Steve Borsch, … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 206 – Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture

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When the group 'Outkast' delivered the line in their song "Hey Ya!" encouraging women on the dance floor to, "shake it like a Polaroid picture"---a reference to an old technique used by some photographers to dry the wet Polaroid film by shaking the picture helped it to dry … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 205 – Look out for the bus Sergey!

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Minnesota continues on its path toward technology development, use, engagement and sales. Mobile is the bright spot and we have on Justin Grammens, a software architect, co-Founder and VP, Engineering of Code 42 Software, as well as an advisor at Recursive Awesome and … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 204 – No Signal in the Big House

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Changing one's profile picture anywhere invites Photoshopping abuse and Phil Wilson defaces Steve's new profile pic. He is, of course, kindly returning the 'favor' of Steve basically defacing just about any image of Phil he can find, including a cheesy attempt at humor with … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 203 – No Pebble for You

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Will the Pebble Watch ever ship? It is now...but just not to Phil. The rest of the Gang yucks it up at his expense but we're mostly serious as we explore the big stories this past week. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music: Super … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 202 – Coincidence or Conspiracy?

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Hmm...this is episode 202 on 2/02. Coincidence or conspiracy? As always, the Gang looks for the meaning behind the biggest tech stories that affect us all and no, we're not wearing tin foil hats (except for maybe Phil, under his fedora). Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 201 – Big, Big Data

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Remember "Web 2.0?" When Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 1999 his intent was to describe the shift from desktop to web applications, data sharing and much more. Claimed to be overhyped, Web 2.0 still stuck as a term and was big enough to describe what needed … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang #200 – Successful Connections

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Wow...this show is our 200th podcast! Seems like just yesterday we started but it's been nearly five years since our first show. Why call this episode "successful connections?" Because the number "200" is a lot of things...but is also an HTTP status code indicating a … [Read more...]