Minnov8 Gang 212 – TV Disruption Disrupted?

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 Wilson.
Music: Tuckassee Train from Charlie Crowe. From the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show…

• Minnebar (the sessions held)
• Heroic, Inc.
  • Schafer: Minneapolis start-up hopes to tap power of referrals
  • Angie’s List
  • Patch
• Tablets in Education
  • Tablets are transforming learning in many west metro classrooms
  • iPad Top 100 Deployments (includes education ones)
• Aereo
  • New Threat to Aereo TV
  • Comcast gets 63% of revenue from cable TV
• The New Résumé
  • The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
  • A guy did this cool Amazon-like résumé
    
  • LinkedIn Elicits Gasps, Cheers For Talent-Spotting Algorithms
• What’s with all these new music services?
  • Spotify
  • RDIO
  • Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It 
  • Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki
  • Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio
• Apple News Roundup
  • T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program 
  • T-Mobile: First day for Apple’s iPhone was ‘gangbusters’
  • Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
  • Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini? 
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
  • Global Brute Force Attacks Build WordPress Botnet
    • Easy fix – delete (or never use) the default admin username!
    • Geek fix
  • Plugin fix:
    • Limit Login Attempts 
    • Wordfence
• Others
  • Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices
  • Amazing things to do with a Raspberry Pi
  • Meet northern Minnesota’s top celebrity interviewer: Shawn “Franky” Slawson

Upcoming Events…

• MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
• 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
• Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
• MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM
• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center