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Hosts: Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Steve Borsch and Tim Elliott are off this week)
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The news business continues to transform itself and news apps are proliferating. But are our mobile device notifications of “breaking news”, especially when that news is mundane and not ‘breaking’, causing us to divert our attention when we shouldn’t be bothered? We discuss this and many more developments in this week’s show.
Minnesota technology stories are flowing and we discuss several of them on this week’s show. The biggest story for next week will certainly come from the world-class Minnesota Interactive Media Association (MIMA) Summit happening next Wednesday. To discuss that event — and why it has been so fabulous in the past and is shaping up to be even better for the upcoming one — is none other than MIMA board president Tim Brunelle (
A tool bloggers rely upon, Feedburner, is undergoing some fairly significant changes and top bloggers fear this critical (and free) service will be abandoned by Google. We discuss this and a lot more on this week’s show.
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We all know design matters. The greatest software is pretty much useless if the human interface is confusing and inefficient. Same thing with hardware. But with the advent of indie capital raising sites like Kickstarter, it’s easier then ever to have a great idea, design it so it’s highly desirable, and then get the project funded. That’s exactly what our guest this week, Tom Gerhardt (
The Apple-Samsung case had most of techdom on the edge of its seats wondering about the outcome. The verdict is now in, it’s in Apple’s favor, and the Gang