Minnesota Startup Launches ‘Spark Radio’ iPhone App

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Is it possible to design a radio app that delivers the ultimate radio experience, complete with visually stunning graphics and social media capabilities, too?  Minneapolis' own Handcast Media Labs LLC thought so, set out to prove it, and just launched the result on the … [Read more...]

MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof

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If you weren't at Minnedemo last night, well, you ain't....  Seriously, for those few of you players in our Internet/IT community who weren't there, you missed a damn good one.  I tweeted as I left about 10:30 pm (okay, I admit I tweet from my car) that I thought it was … [Read more...]

Minnesota Apple Watchers React to Steve Jobs’ Rant

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So, if you haven't seen the news Wired broke late Saturday (updated Sunday afternoon) about Steve Jobs going off on Google and Adobe at the Apple all-employee meeting, here it is:  Google's ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve … [Read more...]

‘The New Industrial Revolution’ and Minnesota

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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 … [Read more...]

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

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Just as we headed into the weekend, day before yesterday, the anticipated news broke that formally identified the Minnesota firm that's funding local ecommerce technology startup Alvenda.  I had been picking up rumblings of hiring in the suite of offices at 12th and … [Read more...]

Steve Bendt Interview: A Chat About Windows 7 Social Media and Life at Microsoft

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Two of the Minnov8 Gang took the opportunity this week to get together with former Twin Citian Steve Bendt.  As you'll recall, Steve had been a senior social media manager at Best Buy, and a cofounder of its Blue Shirt Nation employee social network, but left earlier this … [Read more...]

What’s All This About ‘Moving to the Cloud’? One Minnesota Entrepreneur Can Tell You How

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If you're in an IT professional or follow developments at all in this field, you've undoubtedly been noticing an almost endless amount of media coverage and online discussion lately about "cloud computing"  -- one example being a front page story in The Wall Street Journal … [Read more...]

Emerging Minnesota Software and Internet Technologies to Take the Stage on February 6

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Entrepreneurs, software developers, and computer professionals of all stripes will be rubbing shoulders again this Friday evening with other hopeful company founders, VCs, angel investors, bloggers, and media people from throughout the Twin Cities and other parts of the … [Read more...]