Minnov8 Gang 120 – Is the Cloud our Idol?

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 up), how can we bet our businesses on the cloud and trust that companies aren’t stomping on our privacy? Or is neither one of these any big deal?

At the same time the cloud is stumbling toward its future like a toddler trying to walk in daddy’s shoes, there is no question that toddler is going to grow in to an adult and is doing so very rapidly. One area accelerating is in education and finding ways to leverage the cloud (and an explosion in internet connectivity globally) in new and exciting ways. One such organization is Sophia and our show guest is Taylor Pettis, Manager of marketing communications at Sophia Learning. Taylor talks about their non and for profit adventure, how they’re redefining education, and leveraging the ‘net for crowdsourced course development in fundamentally new and innovative ways.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil “Philly Idol” Wilson.