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Minnov8 Gang 172 – WWDC?

June 15, 2012 By Steve Borsch

Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) was going on all week in San Francisco, and Minnesota’s own Bill Heyman (LinkedIn) of CodeMorphic was there. Bill got up early to talk with the Gang about what happened out there, what he can disclose (he’s under NDA) and more.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked – change yours now
  • Microsoft IPad Killer Coming? 
  • Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft (WSJ) 
  • WWDC Summary: MacBooks get an update, Mountain Lion gets a ship date 
  • First Look: Retina display MacBook Pro 
  • Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect, ‘bloated price’ 

Upcoming Events:

  • Saturday, June 23rd: SkillShare Fair – CoCo Minneapolis
  • Thursday, June 28th: WordPress MSP at The Nerdery
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
  • Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data” (site live soon, details still being finalized) – August 7-8, Carlson School .. featuring top names from the “Internet Identity Workshops,” including Doc Searls and others

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Minnov8 Gang is Off This Week

June 8, 2012 By Steve Borsch

With high school graduations and other commitments looming this weekend, the Gang has opted to skip this week.

That said, the cool thing is that next week is Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and Minnesota’s own Bill Heyman, founder of Codemorphic, will be our guest to talk about all the things that happened at WWDC…and we’re certain there will be A LOT to talk about!

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Minnov8 Gang 171 – Wait Until It’s $15

June 1, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang talks about the hottest stories this week, including how Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 which isn’t good. None of the Gang bought IPO shares, and Tim won’t until it “hits $15 per share.” (image above from Mad Magazine‘s April cover issue which you can see in its entirety here).

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Facebook: Is Social Media Slowing Down? and Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone
  • All Things D conference: Tim Cook, Apple Gears Up For New Products and All Things D Is Haunted by the Man Who Isn’t Here and the always amazing presentation by Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins and a compilation of D10 Videos
  • Cricket first pre-paid US carrier to offer iPhone on $55/month, no contract, unlimited plan
  • Voxer
  • eWorld
  • 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

Upcoming Events:

  • June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • June 7: TiE Minnesota: “Innovation: A Global Imperative,” U of M McNamara Center
  • June 28: WordPress MSP at The Nerdery
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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

Minnov8 Gang 170 – Must. Have. Show.

May 25, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang was all over the place at events this past week and we also discuss the potential for the disruption of the TV business. Steve rationalizes downloading content he ‘forgot’ to record on his DVR — and is adamant he shouldn’t have to buy content more than once — and Tim has strong feelings about buying content…unless it’s Downton Abbey and hear why!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Glue Conference and Graeme’s Glue liveblog and Graeme’s Glue coverage on RCR Wireless here and here
  • Ignite
  • Drupal Camp
  • LiquidMetal and Apple’s exclusive license
  • MinneAnalytics and Graeme’s coverage (Flickr set)
  • The Collaborative’s Tech.2012 event
  • Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle and Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls and Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think  and Introducing Facebook Camera
  • Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.999-inch display, 1136 x 640 resolution in testing
  • It’s Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company
  • Apple’s Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business

Upcoming Events:

  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • June 7: TiE Minnesota: “Innovation: A Global Imperative,” U of M McNamara Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, cloud computing

Minnov8 Gang 169 – Does This Make Me Look Dorky?

May 18, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang is joined by Julio Ojeda-Zapata as our guest host and talk the Facebook IPO, gadgets, travel technology and much more.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • TiE Minnesota “Startups & Mentors”
  • Local startup funding report here and Kidblog and Heroic and FanChatter
  • Facebook Raises $16 Billion In Record Technology Offering and Two men rob internet cafe at gunpoint, but forget to log out of Facebook first 
  • Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches and Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality 
  • Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens
  • Multiple Nexus devices could be a game-changer for Google and Android
  • Google Shifts Tack on Android 
  • GMAIL: Google Locks Me Out Gmail. Seriously? and Julio takes the leap: Web-based Gmail only and Google promises to migrate Google Apps users’ Google+ accounts within weeks, has yet to do so after six months and Fluid App
  • TRAVEL: Travelers Telecom and Scott e-Vest

Upcoming Events:

  • May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012
  • May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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

Minnov8 Gang 168 – Goober says “Hey!”

May 12, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang discusses several developments this week in search, gadgets, and a mention of the passing of Goober Pyle (brother of Gomer), a character of the Andy Griffith Show back in the Sixties, played by George Lindsey who passed away this week. For anyone old enough to have seen the original show — or have enjoyed it in reruns over the years on TV Land — the show was a cultural icon and Goober a lovable doofus.

What struck us after the show recording was how far the world has come with technology since that shows debut in 1960…in black & white. Rotary dial phones, cooking only on stoves (what, no microwave?), and a community isolated due to the slow movement of communications (huh? no internet?), we’ve come a long way.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson as “Floyd the Barber” (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Bing deepens Facebook integration, connecting searchers with friends and New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google’s Search Plus Your World and Head-To-Head: Bing’s Social Search Vs. Google’s Search Plus Your World
  • Apple reportedly dropping Google Maps, launching new 3D mapping service in iOS 6 and Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”
  • Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? and Samsung Galaxy S III and The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers and HTC One X & S and HTC EVO 4G LTE
  • Pebble smart watch sells out and The Vergecast 030 (Pebble founder interview)
  • Apple making a $799 Air in fear of ultrabooks? Nope
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Confirmed: European mobile data roaming costs to fall 
  • Bluetooth 4 

Upcoming Events:

  • May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012
  • May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, iPad, iPhone, University of Minnesota

Minnov8 Gang 167 – The Mod Squad

May 5, 2012 By Steve Borsch

At the same time we’re all experiencing the amazing acceleration of gadgets, internet disruptions and new ways of getting social, there is a resurgence in the old: 1960s because of Mad Men and a re-do of “muscle cars” from U.S. automakers; the ageing of the population and their interest in nostalgia; accessibility of on-demand streaming playback of old TV shows like The Mod Squad; and so on.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles and Apple expected to expand store-within-store presence at Walmart, Target and iPad Renews Tablet Dominance as Kindle Fire Sales Drop Like a Rock 
  • With 8.8% market share, Apple has 73% of cell phone profits and The phone market in 2012: a tale of two disruptions
  • Tablet market: NPD says Apple will lose quarter of tablet market by 2017
  • Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary
  • Best Buy Deathwatch: Best Buy marketing exec Barry Judge resigns and Executive in charge of China becomes latest to leave Best Buy and Best Buy to Expand Bloomington Facility, Add Workers
  • 93% of in-store app users make purchase in physical location
  • The $399 iPad 2 boasts better battery life, says report 
  • Tokyo “virtual” shopping and Near Field Communication
  • Michael Arrington, CEO of Yahoo?
  • Pocket

Upcoming Events:

  • May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012
  • May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Minnov8 Gang 166 – Print Me Some Coffee

April 28, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang discusses events this past week, including the Twin Cities debut of a new, consumer-grade 3D printing device called the Cube from Cubify. Having been fans of Star Trek in its various incarnations, many 3D printing enthusiasts have a vision for these sorts of printers that is more Star Trek replicator than what they presently deliver: prototypes and trinkets.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • SaaS Camp Recap 
  • MHTA Spring Conference
  • Google Drive: Introducing Google Drive… yes, really and Google Set to Meld GDrive With Chrome OS
  • Best Buy Deathwatch: Is Best Buy’s Future An Online Showroom? and 7 Reasons Best Buy Won’t Be Around in 7 Years
  • Gang Tech Talk: Klout vs. Klouchebag and What Your Klout Score Really Means and Rohn Jay Miller’s The Myth of Digital Influence
  • Etsy 3D Printed Products
  • Co.lab opening doors for Duluth techies, and then some

Upcoming Events:

  • May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
  • May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012
  • May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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

Minnov8 Gang 165 – So, Lumia 900, why is your software half-baked?

April 21, 2012 By Steve Borsch

The Gang was at the Twin Cities Windows Phone event at Best Buy and Ovative Group‘s open house this week. That, and a number of other big stories, is at the heart of this show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Sugar Rush” by Beau Hall from the podsafe Music Alley

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Is Kickstarter the new VC? Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android and Forget the money: Kickstarter turns Pebble into a platform
  • Is it becoming TOO easy to be tracked online and, especially, with our smartphones? If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move and 2006 AOL data search results leak and NYTimes: A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749
  • Will It Blend
  • StarTribune: Lean Times for Venture Capitalists 
  • Indiegogo
  • Kickstarter technology projects already funded 
  • Bluetooth 4.0 
  • Graffiti for Android
  • Project Glass
  • Naked TSA Protests Lead to Arrests, Mental Evaluations and Oregon Man Strips Down to Protest TSA 

Upcoming Events:

  • April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
  • April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android

Minnov8 Gang 164 – One BILLION dollars!?!

April 14, 2012 By Steve Borsch

Lots of surprising news this week with the resignation of Best Buy CEO and allegations of improprieties along with the jaw-dropping valuation of Instagram as acquired by Facebook.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Johnnys Deathray Boogie” by Johnny Nicholas from the podsafe Music Alley

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The Podcast
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Guest Segment: We were pleased to have on the always delightful and incredibly mobile knowledgeable Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter)

Discussed during the show:

  • Best Buy’s Brian Dunn out: Best Buy: Dunn Is Done; Is The Retailer Doomed, Too? and Why Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Had To Quit and Best Buy: CEO Brian Dunn resigns over ‘personal conduct’ issue and Cringley’s article on why Best Buy is Doomed
  • Is Instagram Really Worth $1B? Really? Facebook and Instagram: Made for Each Other and Insta-rich: How Instagram became a $1-billion company in 18 months and Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble?
  • Does Windows Phone Have Any Chance Of Market Traction? Nokia, AT&T launch the Lumia 900 amid few lines, strong buzz and Windows Phone will only account for 2% of app downloads in 2012, firm says
  • 11 Startups That Could Get Bought For $1 Billion Tomorrow
  • Apple’s New WYSIWYG App Development Tool for iOS? Will Apple’s patent granted Thursday enable app development for the masses? 
  • Minnebar 2012 sessions
  • Jason Calcanis post about Apple as trillion dollar company due to payments
  • Tim Elliott’s team (Full Court WordPress) non-profit site built during the Overnight Website Challenge: New site; Old site

Upcoming Events:

  • April (various dates): dSchool at CoCo
  • April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
  • April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
  • April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Best Buy, Minnebar

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