Minnov8 Gang 239 — Where Do YOU Read Your iPad?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Down the Slopes  Artist: Alain Galarneau. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota Stories

• Defrag Conference
  • Graeme’s posts on Defrag at GraemeThickins on Tech
• MobCon MobDemo Finalists
• Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA)
  • Fifteen Minnesota High-Tech Innovators Honored at 2013 Tekne Awards (not a PDF)
• Best Buy
  • Fear of ‘Showrooming’ Fades
  • Best Buy announces Black Friday store hours
• Target
  • Target offers $200 for old iPads … but take the right steps
  • Target’s $200 iPad buyback having some problems

Other Stories

• Twitter
  • Twitter’s stock closes at $44.90 a share, up 73 percent on its first day
  • Twitter leaves more than $1 billion on the table
  • The Architect Behind Twitter’s IPO
  • Invest in Twitter? Don’t Even Think About It: Blodget
• Internet of Things
  • Apple
    • Patent: Apple’s home automation tech taps iPhone, Mac hardware for intelligent user tracking
    • Apple’s Location-Tracking iBeacon Is Poised for Use in Retail Sales
    • How Apple’s iBeacon Could Upend Retail Shopping
    • With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things
  • MakerSwarm
    • MakerSwarm: An Authoring Tool for the Internet of Everything
    • FastCompany: This App Is A Roll Of Duct Tape For The Internet Of Things
    • Help fund MakerSwarm at Kickstarter
• Comcast
  • Looks like Comcast is quietly pushing a 300 GB cap and overage charges
  • Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle
• Publishing
  • The Onion will end its print run in December, closing up shop in final three cities
  • Time Inc. bringing Fortune, Time, People, and InStyle magazines to Flipboard
• Amazon’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2013 conference
  • Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013: Cloud Partner Preview
• Other
  • Everpix, the Almost Amazing Photo Service, Is Dead
  • Reading the iPad in the Biffy
    • Pic of the Bathroom iPad stand
    • Leo Laporte’s iPad bathroom stand

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• CityCampMN 2013, November 9
• Connect Minnesota Summit: The State of Broadband on Wed, Dec 4th
• TIES 2013 Education Technology Conference, December 14-17