The Internet of Things continues to accelerate and you will soon find yourself controlling all sorts of ‘things’ with your smartphone or tablet devices. Another innovative Kickstarter project, Sparks, has debuted and the Gang talks with Zach Supalla (LinkedIn; Twitter) , you need to go there now and signup (and watch the video since it is very well done!).
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
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This Week’s Stories…
- The momentum continues as DoDrinks wins MobDemo
- Spark:
- Best Buy:
- Google:
- Black Friday
- Apple’s eMate 300
- Modern Family “Mistery Date”
- Apple HDTV?
- LG May Keep WebOS Alive w/New SmartTV
- Skype Offers
Upcoming Events…
- Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
- Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge
- Tuesday, November 27th: WordPress MSP at the Nerdery
- Thursday, November 29th: Twin Cities Manufacturing Tour (SOLD OUT)
- Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference
- Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013 – Details to come.
The local Minnesota startup community continues to grow as have technology players who started up a long time ago. One of those growing, players, an organization that has reinvented itself and accelerated in to the mobile space by helping developers monetize their apps and even vaulting themselves in to the thick of things with their own social 
The Gang, minus Graeme this week, talks about a range of topics including the QFOLabs 
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.
The lines globally for the iPhone are long and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (