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Minnov8 Gang 145 – Nigel Tufnel Isn’t on Google+?

November 11, 2011 By Steve Borsch

It is 11/11/11 so Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! A fictional character in director Rob Reiner’s classic music spoof, This is Spinal Tap, his quotes were a pre-internet, slowly propagating meme which most saw (except Steve).

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

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Discussed during the show:

  • Defrag 2011; Graeme’s live blog of Defrag 2011; MN tech startups at Defrag: enStratus (a sponsor); TSTMedia; Asystme; FanChatter; ZingString; KidBlog; Rifr
  • Best Buy Acquires IT Services Company mindSHIFT For $167 Million
  • Best Buy UK stores to be shut down after a year of unprofitable operation
  • Graeme’s interview with Robert Stephens 
  • StarTribune: Best Buy’s tablet app…uh…needs some work
  • Target Works to Fix Crashing Website Before Black Friday
  • Google+ Brand Pages Launched; Scoble: “I wish I had never heard of Google+’s brand pages“; Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together
  • Intentionally Left Blank Page
  • Verge
  • Danah Boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research whose blog is “Apophenia“.

Upcoming Events:

  • Saturday, Nov 12th: Code Slingers Challenge – 10:00am – 10:00pm
  • Saturday, Nov 12th: ProductCamp Minnesota 3 – , University of St Thomas – Minneapolis, Schulze Hall
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th: Mobile Twin Cities – 7:00pm
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th: MIMA Event – Community Management with Olivier Blanchardat 7:30am
  • December 10th to 13th: TIES 2011 EduTech Conference – 9:00am – 5:00pm, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

 

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