Tim’s “Cool Thing of the Week” inspired this week’s show name and image, but we had a lot more interesting stories to cover and did. Some serious, some not so much.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Banjo Tango by Cynthia Sayer. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- Graeme’s event recaps: MinneAnalytics and MN Venture Finance Conference
- MinneAnalytics: Bringing people together to talk about ‘big data’
- MinneAnalytics adds two board members
- Graeme’s “Big Data in the Wild” Flipboard magazine
- Supervalu hit with second data breach, including four metro Cub Foods stores
- JPMorgan Chase bank hack: It gets worse
- Ten Minnesota startups picked to compete for $100K from Steve Case
- 3M adds a digital approach to the low-tech Post-It Note
- Minnesota affiliates get back to business with Amazon
Other Top Stories
- CloudFlare Introduces Universal SSL
- Microsoft
- This Is The Motorola Nexus 6
- Blade Runner and its director, Sir Ridley Scott
- With Android L, Google means business
- Apple
- Apple Said to Add Gold Option to iPad to Goose Sales
- Code/red: Apple to Hold iPad Event on October 16
- Apple’s iOS 8 and “The All New WKWebView”
- A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch
- The Woz Is Launching a New Company at DEMOfall in November
- Apple releases OS X bash update 1.0 addressing Shellshock vulnerability
Other Links to Topics Discussed During the Show
- SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 – 2008
- ThisCLICKS, “When I Work”
- LeadPages
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- Mac.BackDoor.iWorm is in the wild
- 17,000 Macs identified as infected: New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Cyanogen
- Tim: Misfit Flash fitness & sleep tracker
- Graeme: SNAP! 6
- Steve: Switch.co
Upcoming Events
- Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- October
- The Mobile Shift: Marketing, Sales, & Customer Service in the Enterprise, Oct 9th, 5-7 pm, Open Book, Mpls
- WordUP Minneapolis 2014, Oct 11-12, 2014
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- Mobile Twin Cities, October 13th, Mobile UI/UX
- Educelerate Twin Cities bootcamp Oct. 14th
- MIMA Summit: Rise of the Machines, Oct 15th
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
- Midwest Mobile Summit-Minneapolis, Oct 23rd, 1-5 pm, CoCo Uptown (teams of three can register here)
- November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
- MobCon: Where Mobile Minds Connect, Nov 13-14th, Hyatt, Mpls
- March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
- April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015