Minnov8 Gang 271 – Facebook Makes Me Sad

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: “Shit Outta Luck” by Life Has Teeth. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories:

• Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart 
  • ‘Internet of Things’ startup Spark moves to San Francisco
  • Spark Raises $4.9 Million ‘A’ Round
• Healthsense
• Workface
  • Workface HTML5 Chat Debuts 
  • Workface website (view the 2.0 video)
• HighJump Software acquired by rival Accellos
• FreeDOS operating system is 20

Last Week’s Other Big Stories

• Facebook
  • Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits
  • What does the Facebook experiment teach us?
• Aereo
  • Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge
  • Popcorn Time
  • TOR Project
  • Onionshare
  • Acorn TV
  • Private Internet Access VPN
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s first letter to employees: Bold Ambition & Our Core
  • A chat with Microsoft’s CEO: why Apple and Google haven’t won yet

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• Silent Circle
  • Phil Zimmermann
  •  Why Are We Competing with Phone Makers, Skype and Telecom Carriers – All in the Same Week?
  • Silent Circle pricing (scroll down to view ‘Silent Circle Mobile Basic’ at $9.95/month)

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