It is 11/11/11 so Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! A fictional character in director Rob Reiner’s classic music spoof, This is Spinal Tap, his quotes were a pre-internet, slowly propagating meme which most saw (except Steve).
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- Defrag 2011; Graeme’s live blog of Defrag 2011; MN tech startups at Defrag: enStratus (a sponsor); TSTMedia; Asystme; FanChatter; ZingString; KidBlog; Rifr
- Best Buy Acquires IT Services Company mindSHIFT For $167 Million
- Best Buy UK stores to be shut down after a year of unprofitable operation
- Graeme’s interview with Robert Stephens
- StarTribune: Best Buy’s tablet app…uh…needs some work
- Target Works to Fix Crashing Website Before Black Friday
- Google+ Brand Pages Launched; Scoble: “I wish I had never heard of Google+’s brand pages“; Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together
- Intentionally Left Blank Page
- Verge
- Danah Boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research whose blog is “Apophenia“.
Upcoming Events:
- Saturday, Nov 12th: Code Slingers Challenge – 10:00am – 10:00pm
- Saturday, Nov 12th: ProductCamp Minnesota 3 – , University of St Thomas – Minneapolis, Schulze Hall
- Tuesday, Nov 15th: Mobile Twin Cities – 7:00pm
- Wednesday, Nov 16th: MIMA Event – Community Management with Olivier Blanchardat 7:30am
- December 10th to 13th: TIES 2011 EduTech Conference – 9:00am – 5:00pm, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
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Phil gives Steve a bad time about his new iPhone 4S and 
One of Minnesota’s premiere interactive marketing thought leaders and practioners, 
The passing of Apple’s co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, overshadowed all other stories of the past week…even Apple’s own introduction of the iPhone 4S. Still, there were numerous things to talk about since the acceleration in technology innovation continues unabated.
Online learning continues to accelerate and 
Lots of announcements this week with Facebook f8, Google+ opening up to everyone, and Forbes thinking our hometown technology retail success story, Best Buy, is in trouble.
This past summer amazed the Gang in how there has been a constant and continuing stream of new announcements, mergers and acquisitions, and major battles in the mobile space. We discuss this and much more in this week’s podcast.