A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter), to give the Gang and you an “update on all things mobile.”
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- MN-Based Cloud Startup enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment
- MHTA Tekne Awards (MHTA site; BizJournal article)
- Returns aren’t in on Best Buy’s VC venture
- Google’s new GoMo – Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
- New in Google Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing and Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision?
- Google Releases Gmail for iOS…then pulls it
- HTML5 and a great site with demos called,”HTML ROCKS”
- Square’s Card Case iOS App Adds Support For Hands-Free Payments, Twitter Integration For Merchants
- Groupon IPO
- Mary Meeker’s State of the Internet
- Kidblog; Minnov8 Gang podcast with the co-founder; Graeme’s video with key folks about hitting 1M users
Upcoming Events:
- Friday, November 4th (weekly): Frontend Masters Workshop Series
- November 8-10: Defrag (Denver & MN startups going include: Zingstring, AsystMe, TST Media, KidBlog, FanChatter… enStratus is a sponsor)
- November 8-10: JAMF Software National User Conference 2011 @Guthrie Theater
- Wednesday, November 9th: Hacks/Hackers Twin Cities – “Newsrooms, Open Source, and the Maker Culture”
- Saturday, November 12th: ProductCamp Minnesota 3
- Saturday, November 12th: Code Slingers Challenge
- Tuesday, November 15th: Mobile Twin Cities