Minnov8 Gang 212 – TV Disruption Disrupted?

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Lots of tech topics to discuss this week but we focus a bit on Aereo, a television startup that holds the promise of lowering costs and increasing access to TV, and the company also just won a major victory. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil … [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 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 164 – One BILLION dollars!?!

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Lots of surprising news this week with the resignation of Best Buy CEO and allegations of improprieties along with the jaw-dropping valuation of Instagram as acquired by Facebook. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson Music: "Johnnys Deathray … [Read more...]

Minnebar 2012: Tech Geek-Out!

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Minnesota's annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Richfield, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history. It just … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 159 – Social Chatter

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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 … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 122 – Crashing is Not an Option

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MinneBar was in full swing at Best Buy's Headquarters and the Gang was delighted to have a chance to talk with Matthew Dornquast, CEO of Code 42 Software (makers of the worldwide acclaimed backup service, CrashPlan) about his firm, its background and growth and, revealed … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 120 – Is the Cloud our Idol?

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Now that Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure had a catastrophic failure this week and Apple was revealed to be storing location data on iPhones and iPads (see: Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users' precise locations and our Sen Al Franken asking Steve Jobs what’s … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 84: Seeing Opportunities for Innovation

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This week's show theme surrounds seeing opportunities for innovation. We explore many of the events, conferences, and moves made in web and internet technology and also dwell on all the collective energy being expended in Minnesota (e.g., MHTA; MNCup; MOJO MN; … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 80: Minne-this, Minne-that

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This week's show comes to you from Minnebar 2010 held at the headquarters of Best Buy. We talk about Thursday's MOJO MN event, Friday's Social Media Breakfast and Saturday's Minnebar. Huge turnout (no final count but at least 500 were there) and big thanks to Best Buy's Geek … [Read more...]