Minnov8 Gang 304 – Everyone Reveres the Apple Watch?

One big story we discuss from this past week was the Apple event where they revealed more about the Apple Watch, ResearchKit, a new Macbook and more. Not everyone is gushing with enthusiasm and excitement about the Watch though…lots of parodies on the ‘net like this video too.

Hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Canal Street Blues by Alligator Gumbo under a Creative Commons License.

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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

• Target’s Transformation Continues:
  • Target makes $1B bet on digital
  • Inside Target’s growth plan, buybacks play a strong role
  • Target Corp. rescinds dozens of job offers
  • After the layoff, Target starts tearing down corporate walls
  • Firms reach out to the new ex-Target workers
  • Target plays costly game of catch-up in tech-driven retail world
• APM wants radio on smartphones (American Public Media HQ is in St. Paul)
  • Police Scanner 100+ apps
  • 5-0 Radio Police Scanner (iOS)
• Local firm makes Apple Watch gear
• Soucheray dings the Apple Watch

Other Top Stories

• FCC releases full, 400 page, net neutrality report (PDF)
  • LA Times: FCC’s net neutrality plan alarms critics, but it’s nothing new
  • TheVerge: These are the FCC’s full rules for protecting net neutrality
  • F.C.C. Sets Net Neutrality Rules
  • Ars Technica: Net neutrality is “Big Brother ObamaNet,” and other brilliant criticism of FCC
• Nielsen Finds 13% of Homes With Multiple OTT Video Subscriptions (OTT means “Over the Top”)
• Apple Event Recap & Commentary
  • Hands-on with a (working) Apple Watch
  • Swatch Co-Inventor: Apple Will Succeed and an Ice Age Is Coming for Swiss Watches
  • The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags
  • Apple Plans Force of Touch Technology for New iPhones
  • Hands-on with the new 12-inch MacBook with Retina Display (One dongle you might need)
  • Apple TV gets a new price: $69
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook shocks Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on CNBC
  • iSpoof: The 12 Funniest Apple Parodies Ever Seen On TV
• iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
  • CIA secretly helped build phone scanning tech for US operations
• GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down:
  • A statement about Gigaom
  • Exit interview: Mathew Ingram
  • After GigaOm, The Non-VC “SimCity” Approach To Growing A Media Business
  • Inside GigaOm’s VC-driven demise

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• Run WordPress? 60 million websites do (and 23.3% of the top 10 million websites run WP). TIP: Backup and update!
  • One example: ‘WordPress SEO by Yoast’ Plugin Vulnerability Affects Millions

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Siva Cycle Charger
• Tim: STACKER – A New Kind of Commercial 3D Printer
• Graeme: Coming: the Flipboard app for the Apple Watch — no, wait, the Twitter app!
  • Close second: “Something Ventured,” the story of how the VC industry got started, available on Netflix
• Steve: Back in Time is a new documentary about the Back to the Future movies and their Kickstarter project 
  • Close second: A vintage-inspired map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet

Upcoming Events

• MIMA: Brand storytelling in a digital world, March 18th
• IoT Fuse (Internet of Things event) March 19th (tix here)
• Google DevFest, March 21st
• Fundraising: What Startups Need to Know, March 24th
• MobilizeMN: RedCurrent: It’s About Time, March 24th
• Attracting More Local Customers Even When Your Wheels are Spinning, March 25th
• Mobile March, March 26th
• Tech Cities, March 27th
• MobCon Digital Health, April 8th
• MinneBar 10, April 11th, Best Buy HQ
• MinneWebCon April 13th
• Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21st
• Ignite Minneapolis – April 23rd
• MedTech Investing Conference, May 6th