Minnov8 Gang 240 – Internet of…Eggs?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).
Music: Lil Diddley Vampredux  Artist: Oregon Chad. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota Stories

• SmartThings
  • SmartThings Announces New Financing
  • SmartThings Raises $12.5 Million to Internet Some More Things
    • Quirky Raises $79M, Including $30M From GE to Make Connected-Home Gadgets (Internet of Things Egg Minder & other things)
• GiveMN
  • “Give To The Max” Website Crashes After Raising Millions
    • Give to the Max Day donations break record despite glitches ($17.1M)
      • Razoo
      • Short Shorts And Long Buses: Amazon Cloud Competitors Look A Bit Foolish At AWS Conference
• Gaming
  • Borsch’s son Alex’ team for the Extra Life fundraiser (Record $ raised even with DDoS)
  • Game streaming network “Twitch.tv”
  • FACTBOX-A look at the $66 billion video-games industry
  • Console enthusiasts line up for the PS4 last night by Julio Ojeda-Zapata
• MakerBot’s goal: A 3-D printer in every school
• Spark
• Wi-Fi-linked BBQ smoker, power socket hit Kickstarter
  • Qbox: The Wi-Fi connected BBQ Smoker 

Other Stories

• Apple
  • iPad Mini Retina Display Teardown
  • Apple’s New iPad mini Suffers From Retina Display Image Retention Problem
  • Monoprice
  • Monoprice Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Cables
• Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
  • In Rejecting Facebook, Snapchat Still Extracts Value
  • Path (see ‘Controversy’)
• Google
  • Google Is Now Bigger Than Both The Magazine And Newspaper Industries
  • The Washington Post closes sale to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
  • Android
    • CyanogenMod Installer Hits Google Play, Flashing the Custom ROM Now Easier Than Ever
    • Top 10 Windows Emulator for Mac That Will Allow Convenient Access of Windows Applications on Your Mac
    • Google begins Android 4.4 KitKat rollout for Nexus 7 and Nexus 10

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• MIMA Nov event: “Journalism, Ethics, and Content in the Digital Age” November 20, 7:30-9:00am
• Connect Minnesota Summit: The State of Broadband on Wed, Dec 4th
• TIES 2013 Education Technology Conference, December 14-17