Twitter came out with a new search service this week and it enables you to view your first tweet…or the first tweet of anyone else’s Twitter handle you’d like to input. Fun stuff but when Twitter was first launched really took off in early 2007, the four of us had the same initial reaction as old Ed in the photo above: What the heck is this Twitter thing?
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Devil On My Shoulder by Herbie D and The Dangermen. Brought to us by Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- Mobile March recap
- Minneapolis’ FirstTech, Apple retailing pioneer, is closing
- Minnesota software company moving to Austin
- NFC takes another blow as 7-Eleven, Best Buy shut it down
- Chromebooks are beginning to give the Windows world serious competition
- Minneapolis to regulate ride-share companies
Other Top Stories
- Graeme covers the Gigaom Structure Data Conference. Of note:
- The incredible personal story of Ramona Pierson and how it informed her data startup, Declara
- Sean Gourley, CTO, Quid: “How humans and machines can team up to solve big problems”
- Dennis Crowley on Foursquare’s first two years collecting data, next two years making data usable – and now what?
- Mentions of SpaceCurve & D-Wave Systems (Wikipedia on D-Wave)… and an opposing view of D-Wave’s quantum computing
- Netflix
- Inside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators
- Before He Died, Steve Jobs Told Top Executives Apple Would Not Be Making A TV
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- Overall attacks on mobile devices are accelerating, but 98.05% of all mobile malware targets Android. The tip? Only download apps from an official app store and keep Android updated!
- SecureList: Mobile Malware Evolution
- Mobile Malware, High-Risk Apps Hit 1M Mark
- Sophos Security Threat Report 2014 (PDF)
- Noted: Brian Krebs, who runs Krebs on Security and broke the Target data breach story, posted that Sony Pictures Plans Movie About Yours Truly
Upcoming Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- SMBMSP #64, Social Media Case Studies, March 28th
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- Minnebar, Saturday, April 12th. Details to come…
- Overnight Website Challenge, April 12th-13th
- MinneWebCon, April 14 & 15, U of MN
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- Educelerate Twin Cities: EdTech Founder’s Stories, April 16th
- Startup Weekend – Education, May 2nd
- MHTA Spring Conference-Stanley Hubbard to Keynote, May 6th
Phil’s longest phone ever and the Gang’s first tweets in 2007 (click either for a larger view):
