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Minnov8 Gang 84: Seeing Opportunities for Innovation
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; Minnedemo/Minnebar; Minnov8; tech.mn). driving toward one thing: sparking innovation in Minnesota. Is it working? What [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 80: Minne-this, Minne-that
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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 Squad Chief Inspector, Robert Stephens, who made [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 79: The Facebookers
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The Facebook privacy controversy continues to heat up. In fact, as of May 2010, the Better Business Bureau gave Facebook a D rating, stating “We have enough concerns about this company (for example, their offer, customer complaints, advertising, etc.) that we recommend caution in doing business with it.” To bring another perspective in to the podcast, [...]
Continue reading...MinneSpark Has $1,000 (Potentially) For You
Thursday, March 25, 2010
What could you do with $1,000 for your best idea? Could you turn it into a scalable business? Let’s find out! MinneSpark will award 1 to n grants of $1,000 to Minnesota-based teams who demonstrate to their trustees the ability to take that money and turn it into something real. This is about doing more with [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 60: Staying Ahead of the Storm in 2010
Saturday, December 12, 2009
This week’s show is about possibilities with tablets, predictions made by an analyst firm, and a hodge-podge of stuff discussed by the Minnov8 Gang. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.Music by Endlouz and the tune is, “Bad Advice” (Disclaimer: This was NOT chosen as an indictment on the commentary by the Gang!) [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 59: Live from Minnebar
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Two of the four Gang members made it to Minnebar at the headquarters of Best Buy this past Saturday. All feedback was it was a fabulous event and Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson recorded this week’s podcast live at the event. Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:10 — 19.3MB)
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 58: Defragging Defrag & Other ‘Net Stuff
Saturday, November 14, 2009
After our week hiatus, the Minnov8 Gang is back at it with a podcast covering Graeme Thickins’ trip to the DeFrag conference and his liveblogging of it. After that we discuss local events (e.g., Minnebar), WCCO, WordPress and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music by blues singer Candy Kayne [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 23
Saturday, January 31, 2009
This Gang podcast is called “Silver Linings,” and we focus on good news, where your possibilities reside, how to create a different mindset and attitude about your current situation…and what action we all can take to move forward!! One favorite meme about our current situation discussed is, “the world is undergoing an economic reboot”. In [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle
Monday, May 12, 2008
If one had any doubt about the intensity of our state’s information technology and Internet community, one only had to be anywhere inside the U’s Coffman Union on Saturday for the third annual Minnebar “unconference” (part of an international phenomenon called Barcamp). To say the joint was a-jumpin’ simply does not suffice. And numbers alone [...]
Continue reading...State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. A Minnebar Panel Discussion
Sunday, May 11, 2008
One of the highlights of Saturday’s Minnebar was a panel discussion entitled, State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. The panelists included: Douglas Olson (Microsoft), Jamie Thinglestad (formerly of Dow Jones), Michael Gorman (Split Rock Partners), Robert Stephens (Geek Squad), Dan Grigsby (Unpossible), Matthew Dornquast (code42). Ed Kohler at Technology Evangelist has a post with [...]
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- Is Perception the Reality with MN Venture Funding?
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- MPR: Where is innovation in Minnesota?
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- The Joy of Infiltration Champions Open Game Development
- Method Patents: Good or Bad?
- MixMobi Moves Closer to Being Named One of The PepsiCo 10
- W3i Lights Up the ‘Net with Its Latest App News
- iKenex Platform from DoApp
- MN Cup Announces Semi-Finalists
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