Any holiday is an excuse to break out all your decorations and fun garb, but Peeps® pajamas? We love our buddy Graeme but have a hard time visualizing him in his footie sleepwear…but we had no idea his new startup was making these manly versions for guys.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Bogan Race by The Naxalites. Brought to us by Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- Past Week’s Event Discussion
- TCBMag: Minnesota companies raise less venture capital in Q1
- StarTribune: Target expands subscription service as it fends off Amazon.com in fight for online shoppers
- StarTribune: Best Buy’s Joly: Web retailers should collect sales tax
- StarTribune: Northwest Minnesota embraces drone industry
- Minnov8: Technovation[MN]: Helping Young Women Discover Entrepreneurship
- General Mills
Other Top Stories
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL
- Microsoft’s Internet of Things in Healthcare site
- Microsoft $1.1 Billion Data Center Planned for West Des Moines
- Microsoft launches Office 365 Personal subscription
- SkypeTX Broadcast Quality Software/Hardware
Other Links to Topics Discussed During the Show
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- Ars Technica: Now there’s an easy way to flag sites vulnerable to Heartbleed
- Chrome, Firefox and Opera extension to flag sites in your browser
- An alternative for Chrome: Chromebleed
- Why protect yourself? “Of the 500,000 HTTPS-enabled sites the company estimates were vulnerable to Heartbleed, only 80,000 of them have revoked and replaced their old certificates.” Read the Netcraft post here.
- Sucuri: HeartBleed in the Wild
- Running your own server or using SSL? Check to see if your website is vulnerable by running the Heartbleed test and then replace your SSL certificate now!
Upcoming Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- WordCamp Minneapolis 2014, April 26, UST Minneapolis
- Technovation[MN] Appapalooza, April 27
- Startup Weekend – Education, May 2nd
- Invention Expo 2014, May 2-3
- Midwest Mobile Summit – May 5-6, Fargo, ND
- MHTA Spring Conference-Stanley Hubbard to Keynote, May 6th
- Social Media Breakfast #66, May 9
- Google in Education Minnesota Summit, May 10
This week’s show was recorded at 
Our special guest host this week is ace tech reporter, author and a man not bashful about his love of gadgets and scifi, Julio Ojeda-Zapata. Fortunately Julio has little need for his fedora and press pass…or does he?
Twitter came out with a 
In the usual flood of technology stories was one that stunned all four of us: 
Several “head scratcher” stories this week, not the least of which is the alleged discovery of the founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto (a name linked to the supposed creator, 
We have much to discuss this week but probably the biggest story is the meltdown of 
Anything internet remains central to today’s technology and our always on, always connected lifestyles are seeing us all demand more and more bandwidth. As such we talk this week about Google Fiber and Steve being the recipient of some CenturyLink evangelical fiber salespeople. As always, we cover the tech that matters to you too.
The biggest story of the past week surrounds Comcast/Xfinity and their merger with Time Warner Cable. Will this place the combined company in a position to wield unprecedented control over the internet pipe in to our homes and businesses?