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Minnov8 Gang 212 – TV Disruption Disrupted?

April 13, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Lots of tech topics to discuss this week but we focus a bit on Aereo, a television startup that holds the promise of lowering costs and increasing access to TV, and the company also just won a major victory.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tuckassee Train from Charlie Crowe. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:10:08 — 41.2MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Minnebar (the sessions held)
  • Heroic, Inc.
    • Schafer: Minneapolis start-up hopes to tap power of referrals
    • Angie’s List
    • Patch
  • Tablets in Education
    • Tablets are transforming learning in many west metro classrooms
    • iPad Top 100 Deployments (includes education ones)
  • Aereo
    • New Threat to Aereo TV
    • Comcast gets 63% of revenue from cable TV
  • The New Résumé
    • The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
    • A guy did this cool Amazon-like résumé
    • LinkedIn Elicits Gasps, Cheers For Talent-Spotting Algorithms
  • What’s with all these new music services?
    • Spotify
    • RDIO
    • Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It 
    • Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki
    • Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio
  • Apple News Roundup
    • T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program 
    • T-Mobile: First day for Apple’s iPhone was ‘gangbusters’
    • Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
    • Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini? 
  • Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
    • Global Brute Force Attacks Build WordPress Botnet
      • Easy fix – delete (or never use) the default admin username!
      • Geek fix
    • Plugin fix:
      • Limit Login Attempts 
      • Wordfence
  • Others
    • Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices
    • Amazing things to do with a Raspberry Pi
    • Meet northern Minnesota’s top celebrity interviewer: Shawn “Franky” Slawson

Upcoming Events…

  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, iPad, Minnebar

Minnov8 Gang 211 – Everything Looks Like a Nail

April 5, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Facebook Home debuted this week. Steve believes that its debut is about how Facebook sees the world as “people-centric”—and that means, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail)—but Tim is certain it will be a winner (on Android). What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

Hosts: Steve Borsch and Tim Elliott (Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson are off this week).
Music: Easy Job from The Dead Rocks. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:40 — 25.1MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Overnight Website Challenge
    • Winners Announced
    • Nerdery announces winners of nonprofit website design competition
  • TST Media Lands Investment, Rebrands, Makes Acquisition
    • TST Media, Maker of Sport Ngin Software, Secures $6 Million in Series C Financing
    • Sport Ngin Acquires e7sports
  • Best Buy
    • Samsung Plans Mini-Stores in Best Buys
  • Facebook App forks Android?
    • Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’ 
    • HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on (video)
    • Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication
    • Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
  • Live TV Streaming
    • Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV Wins Big in Court
    • Aereo (coming soon to Minneapolis)
  • Google
    • Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink
    • Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge ‘national security letters’
  • The ‘Vintage’ Web
    • Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?
    • The Wayback Machine 
    • Tim’s first website
    • Steve’s first website ‘The Big Trip‘ to Germany in 1997

Upcoming Events…

  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Google

Minnov8 Gang 210 – The Internet is Broken?

March 30, 2013 By Steve Borsch


Steve returns to The Gang after 3 weeks and Phil is spring breaking but three of us dissect the top stories of the week including Best Buy’s founder returning, did hackers really break the internet last week and T-Mobile’s aggressive announcements.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).

Music: Dangerous Things from George Fletcher’s Bourbon Renewal/The Tequila Mockingbirds. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:05 — 38.2MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Best Buy
    • Best Buy, RedLaser partner on mobile app strategy
    • Founder Richard Schulze rejoins Best Buy as chairman emeritus
    • Expect Hubert Joly to Lose His Job at Best Buy
    • Losers Return to Best Buy to Oversee Second Death Spiral
  • Did the internet break last week?
    • The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
    • That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
    • When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
  • Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
    • Anatomy of the Apple ID password reset exploit
    • Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security?
  • T-Mobile
    • T-Mobile’s UnCarrier event roundup
    • We Did The Math, And It Turns Out The T-Mobile iPhone 5 Could Save You A Bunch Of Money
  • Facebook phone?
    • Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android”
    • Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life
  • Others
    • Game Developer’s Conference
    • Minnesota Cup Commences Ninth Annual Competition
    • Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur’s Time
    • Is It Real? With New Technology Has Activision Crossed The ‘Uncanny Valley’?
    • SendInc
    • Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
    • Mike Elgan, tech writer

Upcoming Events…

  • WordPress MSP, Thursday, March 28 at The Nerdery
  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Best Buy, cloud computing, Minnebar, NativeX

Minnov8 Gang 209 – March Madness!

March 24, 2013 By Tim Elliott

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Three-quarters of the Gang take time out of NCAA March Madness viewing to talk about the top news of the past week including Mobile March 2013, Adria Richards’ tough lesson in social media etiquette, the emerging smart watch category, Google Keep and what’s going on at Apple.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Steve Borsch is off this week).
Music: Panacea by bill. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 55:56 — 32.6MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Mobile March 2013 Wrap-up
    • Mobile Fans Have a Big Day at the Farm
    • Speaker slides for Mobile March 2013
  • W3i Becomes NativeX
    • W3i Rebrands, Launches Native Ad Platform for App Devs, Adds Trip Hawkins as Senior Advisor 
  • Adria Richards – a tough lesson in social media etiquette
    • Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on Twitter 
    • Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences
    • Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
    • A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control
    • PyCon 2013: A play in one act
  • Smartwatch Madness!
    • LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device 
    • Google’s Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch
    • Some Pebble smartwatches bricking after shutdown, company replacing faulty units
  • Google Keep Takes On More Than Evernote
    • Google launches Evernote rival Keep for the Web, Android 4.0 and above
    • And That, Google, Is How You Lose The Influencers
  • Apple News Update
    • How Apple invites facile analysis
    • Horace Dediu’s Critical Path podcast
    • Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM
    • Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch?

Upcoming Events…

  • WordPress MSP, Thursday, March 28 at The Nerdery
  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Gang 208 – A Galaxy Too Far?

March 16, 2013 By Tim Elliott

Minnov8 208

Julio Ojeda-Zapata rejoins the Gang to talk about this week’s big news including the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4, Imation’s TDK-branded Bluetooth speaker/wireless charger, the death of Google Reader and more.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week).
Music: 
Thanks For Nothing by Kito Peters. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:55 — 33.4MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Imation in the spotlight with TDK audio line, wireless charging
    • TDK brand lives on, and could save Imation
    • With Qi, wireless device charging may be getting traction
  • St. Paul duo launching a social network for home DYIers
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 Announcement:
    • Samsung Galaxy S 4 Beats The Best With 5-inch, 1080p Display, 1.9GHz Processor, Gesture Controls And A Q2 2013 Release
    • I Think Even Samsung Knows That the Galaxy S4 is a Let-Down
    • Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist
  • Adiós, Google Reader:
    • Powering Down Google Reader
    • The demise of Google Reader was like a punch in the gut
    • Feedly planning a “seamless” transition from Google Reader to its own Google App Engine back end codenamed Normandy.
    • Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with ‘the best of Google Reader’s features,’ including its API
    • Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)
    • Why Did Google Reader Die?
  • Overnight Website Challenge People’s Choice Awards
  • Basis watch
  • Sessions so far for MinneBar 8

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013 – SOLD OUT! (but tickets might be available closer to the event)
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Minnov8 Gang 207 – All It Takes Is A Night Of Sleep

March 10, 2013 By Tim Elliott

sleepHalf the Gang descended on The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge with Tim’s team, Full Court Press, competing for a 4th straight year. We interview Mark Hurlbert from The Nerdery, Ron Lischeid and Bill Ernst from Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride and Graeme talks with Bil MacLeslie from IP House.

Hosts: Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Steve Borsch and Phil Wilson are off this week).

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:14 — 26.3MB)

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Overnight Website Challenge 2013 (photo by Graeme Thickins)

Overnight Website Challenge 2013 (photo by Graeme Thickins)

Discussed during the show…

  • Overnight Website Challenge 2013
  • Graeme’s “nerdcast” 
  • Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride “before” website
  • Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride “after” website (to be finished before April 1, 2013)
  • OWC Facebook page with “People’s Choice” Awards (vote for MCDAR here)
  • Steve’s initial thoughts on SmartThings
  • Graeme’s photoset at Flickr

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Gang 206 – Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture

March 2, 2013 By Steve Borsch

When the group ‘Outkast’ delivered the line in their song “Hey Ya!” encouraging women on the dance floor to, “shake it like a Polaroid picture“—a reference to an old technique used by some photographers to dry the wet Polaroid film by shaking the picture helped it to dry faster—Polaroid put out a press release asking people NOT to wave around today’s Polaroid pictures since they didn’t need to dry them like that anymore.

We sure don’t have to deal with instant photo prints anymore, heh? On this podcast we talk about today’s Polaroid and lament (a bit) the passing of what one of us described as “the Apple of the 1970s”. But since we have on Julio Ojeda-Zapata, the show is quite upbeat as we talk about the latest-and-greatest technologies and hear from a guy who gets to play with most of them before he writes his articles for TwinCities.com on his tech blog or for the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio-Ojeda Zapata.
Music: My Baby Up and Left Me by The Blues Vultures. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:23 — 38.1MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Gang
    • Phil’s in-depth review (& cheesy unboxing video) of his new Pebble watch
    • Julio on the Chromebook Pixel
    • Steve: Google Chrome: Why I Said ‘No Thanks’
  • Best Buy
    • Best Buy lays off 400 at Richfield headquarters
    • Oscar Barnes: EgoTime Lemonade
    • Best Buy founder Richard Schulze fails to make buyout offer
    • Schafer: In the end, Schulze had little to offer Best Buy
  • Polaroid
    • Polaroid – the company is in Minnetonka, MN
    • Polaroid still surviving, in name and in products
    • Polaroid to make Socialmatic Camera
    • Polaroid instant-cam more of a party animal
  • Mobile World Congress 2013
    • Mobile World Congress 2013: best of show
    • Israeli start-up brings gesture tech to iPhones
    • Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ’emasculating’
  • Mobile OSes
    • Ubuntu for Phones
    • Firefox OS
    • HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale, and LG doesn’t rule out a phone 
  • Copyright Alert System (CAS)
    • What is the CAS?
    • EFF and CAS
    • Will The New ‘Copyright Alert System’ Actually Stop People From Downloading Music and Movies Illegally?
  • Others
    • Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS 
    • E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing
    • SmartThings List of Preliminary Compatible Offerings
    • Digiboo’s public digital-video kiosks spread to the U. of M. 
    • E-commerce services firm Digital River has a new CEO
    • Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MOCA)
    • With thrifty, easy Aereo, get your own personal antenna

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
  • Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
  • Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
  • Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Best Buy, Google

Minnov8 Gang 205 – Look out for the bus Sergey!

February 23, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Minnesota continues on its path toward technology development, use, engagement and sales. Mobile is the bright spot and we have on Justin Grammens, a software architect, co-Founder and VP, Engineering of Code 42 Software, as well as an advisor at Recursive Awesome and Localtone.

Justin Grammens

Justin Grammens

Justin, along with Phil Wilson and Linda Cummings, co-founded Mobile March in 2010. In 2012, they welcomed the talents of Mike Bollinger. Justin is a busy guy, having started the Mobile Twin Cities User’s Group, an Android User’s Group, an Arduino platform user’s group and who-knows-what-else. We talk about the upcoming Mobile March TC event on March 21st, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and more. We believe that, in his spare time, Justin spends time with his family and sleeps.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: The Hustle is On by Johnny Nicholas. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:03 — 35.0MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Google for Entrepreneurs Day
    • Thoughts from a Google event in Minneapolis
    • The day’s “Hangout” video is here
  • Tap the Cash – MN Angel Network
  • Teams and Non-Profits Chosen for Overnight Web Challenge
  • Is Best Buy Back?
    • Don’t look now, but Best Buy might be coming back
    • Analysts praise Best Buy’s new leaders; company’s stock climbs
  • Shobii: Smart frame with a private photo share network
  • Raspberry Pi
    • About Raspberry Pi
    • One Million Raspberry Pi Boards Have Been Sold Since Launch
  • Google
    • The Chromebook Pixel, for what’s next
    • Google Glass End Of 2013, Price Tag Under $1,500
    • Joshua Topolsky/TheVerge: I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates
    • Google Reportedly In Talks With Warby Parker To Design Stylish Google Glass Frames
    • Conan: Google Glass Is Only Preparing the World For Google ASS
  • Steve’s Security Alert of The Week
    • Google Chrome: Why I Said, “No thanks” 

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
  • Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
  • Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Best Buy, Google, mobile

Minnov8 Gang 204 – No Signal in the Big House

February 16, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #204

Changing one’s profile picture anywhere invites Photoshopping abuse and Phil Wilson defaces Steve’s new profile pic. He is, of course, kindly returning the ‘favor’ of Steve basically defacing just about any image of Phil he can find, including a cheesy attempt at humor with this video.

Thankfully we goof off a bit but get in to some serious discussions about tech and innovation moves going on this past week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Spy Smasher by The High Fidelics. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:49 — 36.3MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Best Buy Deathwatch
    • Schulze May Ditch Best Buy Takeover, Instead Buy Smaller Stake 
    • Best Buy Is Losing Its Best Chance of Survival: Jeff Macke
    • Best Buy to make internet price matching permanent to prevent ‘showrooming’
  • Steve’s Security Alert of The Week
    • Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack
  • Mobile News Roundup
    • HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices
    • No “Plan B” for Microsoft’s mobile ambitions: CFO
    • Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake
    • Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012
  • Automobiles
    • Before He Died, Steve Jobs Said He Wanted Apple To Make A Car
    • The Tesla Nightmare Shows Why Today’s All-Electric Cars Are (Basically) Dead On Arrival
    • Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway
    • That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t 
  • Posterous
    • Posterous shuttering for good on April 30th
    • Garry Tan and Brett Gibson are setting up Posthaven
    • List of Posterous alternatives is here
    • Migrate from Posterous to Tumblr (or to WordPress)
  • Apple
    • Now we know why Apple was leaking iWatch rumors: Samsung’s releasing one
    • Could Apple Be Working On The ‘iBank’?
  • OMG! Meteors!
    • Meteor Videos from Russia 
    • While you were working: An asteroid just flew by…

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
  • Wednesday, February 20th: Tap the Cash – MN Angel Network (for accredited investors; startups can apply)
  • Wednesday, February 20th: MIMA: “The Future of Blogging” with Rick Webb/Tumblr
  • Thursday, February 21st: Tie MN Startup Showcase Evening, 6:30-8:45pm
  • Saturday, February 23rd: Twin Cities Open Data Day and Code Across America Hackathon
  • Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
  • Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
  • Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Best Buy, Google, mobile

Minnov8 Gang 203 – No Pebble for You

February 9, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Will the Pebble Watch ever ship? It is now…but just not to Phil. The rest of the Gang yucks it up at his expense but we’re mostly serious as we explore the big stories this past week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Super Ant Monster by The Dead Rocks. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
https://media.blubrry.com/minnov8/minnov8.com/site/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/20130209_M8_Gang_203.mp3

Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:28 — 34.3MB)

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Discussed during the show…

  • Java Meetup 612 (JMU612) on Twitter
  • Digital River swings to 4Q loss on goodwill charge, will return to core services 
  • Best Buy
    • Best Buy’s Joly to keynote MHTA Spring Conference
    • Amy Poehler tries to seduce Best Buy boys in Super Bowl
  • Forbes Ranks Code 42 #53 “Most Promising”
  • Adobe Issues Emergency Flash Update for Attacks on Windows, Mac Users
    • Adobe Flash Player direct download 
  • Ouya
    • Ouya enters the console war, launching in June
    • Ouya founder promises new $99 console every year
  • Google Updates Hangouts (bandwidth control & audio)
  • WebRTC ‘conversation’ between Chrome and Firefox (about WebRTC)
  • Ex-Apple designer explains why it’s just a matter of time for the iWatch
  • FreedomPop Plans ‘LTE Clip’ To Give Free LTE To iPad, Android Tablets

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
  • Thursday, February 21st: Tie MN Startup Showcase Evening, 6:30-8:45pm
  • Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
  • Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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