Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Gang 78: Mobile Speed Geeking

May 7, 2010 By Steve Borsch

The Gang discusses several topics but then talks with Kelly Heikilla from MixMobi who is out at the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit in Mountain View, CA, an event exploring the latest Mobile development trends — both the technology and the emerging business applications — in an unconference format. Kelly was just about to head to lunch and then go to the “speed geeking” event where he’d have a chance to pitch MixMobi over-n-over again to attendees (more here).

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Podsafe music by Matt Mays & El Torpedo and their song “Travellin”…from Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Show Notes:
+ FCC Broadband (CNet has good overview here and FAQ here)
+ Toktumi and their Line2 app for iPhone
+ Kelly Heikilla brought up Burbn and Shopify
+ Graeme brought up Pedalbrain.

Minnov8 Gang 77: “May Day! May Day!”

May 1, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Recorded on May Day, the Gang talks about the Minnovation week just passed, stuff upcoming, and editorializes about the Flash/Steve Jobs brouhaha and what it means for developers and users of “iStuff” from Apple — as well as the shifting landscape of video technologies and the major companies that support various technologies.

Hosts: Steve Borsch; Tim Elliott; Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: By the Birdinumnums’ Michael Caine in this instrumental. Podsafe music by Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show notes:

+ MOJO MN post
+ Startup Zipnosis signs this significant deal with Park Nicollet
+ Audiofile Engineering
+ BusinessCard2 User Conference (BC2 website)
+ TEDxTC at the Science Museum
+ Compellent’s CDrive event
+ Minnebar at Best Buy HQ on May 22nd
+ Aaron Kardell runs Performant Design and created the iGarageSale app
+ Minneapolis-based Crashplan for backing up “in the cloud”

Minnov8 Gang 76 at the Minnesota “High Tech” Association

April 22, 2010 By Steve Borsch

The Gang is joined by Rick Mahn, founder of the Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis/St. Paul, for an end-of-the-day podcast at the Minnesota High Tech Association Spring Conference. We talk about the missing “high tech” (e.g., Wifi) at the event and its impact on our ability to publish to this liveblog and other general impressions about the day that is mostly favorable.

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

The Podcast

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Minnov8 Gang 75: Is “Free as in Beer” Over?

April 17, 2010 By Steve Borsch

We catch up on last week’s big happenings, have on a guest and talk about the premature talk of the death of the “Free as in Beer” or “freemium” model. Joining us for our guest segment is Gary Doan, a Minnesota serial entrepreneur who recently joined the Australian email provider, Atmail, as its Vice President of Business Development.

Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Boo Boo Davis in a song titled, “Sad Thing” from Music Alley, purveyors of podsafe music.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show:

+ MinneWebCon (site; Minnov8 Liveblog archive)

+ Minneapolis CrowdPitch event covered by Graeme: his FlickrSet; 4Crowd; MobileRealtyApps; Funding Universe

+ Ning soon to charge for their service

+ SMBMSP Event & Lisa Grimm’s Posterous blog where she placed a request for input since she’s hosting that event

+ Video Stuff: H.264; patent licensors (i.e., owners); good explanation of H.264 by Apple; nice overview of the issues of HTML5 video over Flash and the possibilities if Google does toss VP8 in to open source

+ Gary Doan Atmail links: Live Demo – Atmail Webmail; Live Demo – Atmail WebAdmin

Minnov8 Gang 74: Innovation is Driving Passions

April 10, 2010 By Steve Borsch

The Gang recaps the week and has on Julio Ojeda Zapata as our special guest.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music by George Fletcher’s Bourbon Renewal with the The Tequila Mockingbirds and the tune is “Rumble Groove“. Brought to you by Music Alley

The Podcast

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DISCUSSED DURING THE SHOW NOTES:
+ FiRe: local iPhone audio app made by Audiofile Engineering in Minneapolis and used for last week’s podcast
+ Blue’s Mikey microphone for iPhone/iPod (Note that FiRe is available with this mic)
+ Comcast FCC ruling
+ Julio’s book called “Twitter Means Business”
+ MinneWebCon
+ Apple iPhone OS 4
+ Dan Grigsby @ Mobile Orchard shutting down
+ Adobe backlash (e.g., “Go screw yourself Apple“)
+ Quit Whining About The iPad Interface
+ Twitter Acquires Atebits, Maker of Tweetie
+ ComicTwit
+ Minneapolis CrowdPitch
+ BusinessCard2 @ AlwaysOn
+ Sh*t My Dad Says (started on Twitter, now with its own site, soon a TV show with William Shatner)

Minnov8 Gang 73: Minnov8 Meets the iPad

April 3, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Since one of the Gang was picking up his iPad this morning (it was Graeme) we agreed to meet at the Southdale Apple Store to record the podcast and check out the iPad. Give us a listen and hear whether we loved it, hated it, thought it was just a big iPod Touch, or agree that everything after the Palm Treo 750 pales in comparison.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

The Podcast

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Minnov8 Gang 72: Mobile March Twin Cities

March 27, 2010 By Steve Borsch

The Mobile March Twin Cities event was nothing short of excellent. In this podcast one of the organizers, Minnov8’s own Phil Wilson, are joined by Biz Borsch (@bizborsch) and Lisa Grimm (@lulugrimm) to discuss some of the highlights and issues brought forth today.

For more highlights and information, please see the MobileMarchTC website as links, photos, videos and more will be there for your viewing and downloading.

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

The Podcast

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Minnov8 Gang 71: At the Overnight Website Challenge

March 21, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Tim Elliott started a team for the Overnight Website Challenge called “Full Court Press” and the team members are comprised of folks in the Minneapolis/St. Paul WordPress Users Group. He and Phil Wilson hosted an on-site podcast this week by having a conversation with Mark, one of the Nerdery founders of the Challenge as well as with Brad Slaker, head of the non-profit DesignWise Medical, Inc. whose site Full Court Press is building out.

When it comes to websites and technology that can improve outreach and increase donations, many nonprofits are lagging far behind. Thus was born The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge.

Beginning the morning of March 20, 2010 and concluding the next day, The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge will again provide a fun forum to highlight creative ways for nonprofits to strategically use web technology to accomplish their missions.

Hosts: Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Steve Borsch is off today and Graeme Thickins is on his way to DEMO & will liveblog here)
Music by Dexter Freebish and their song, “Everybody Knows Somebody” from the SXSW Music Showcase.
Update: Apologies to Brad Slaker (sounds like laker) of DesignWise Medical for the name mispronunciation by an already punchy Phil Wilson.

The Podcast

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Minnov8 Gang 70: Talking w/Meg Canada & Rick Mahn from SXSWi

March 13, 2010 By Steve Borsch

This week’s podcast features a conversation with local Minnesotans and social media players Meg Canada (@megcanada) and SMBMSP founder Rick Mahn (@rickmahn; blog) from the South by Southwest® conference in Austin, Texas. Billed as, “The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery” it’s the interactive festival that is the focus of Meg and Rick’s adventures in the Lone Star State.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: “Fight the Start” by the Kilians (article; website) a German band, part of the SXSW music artist showcase.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show:

+ SXSW music page: http://2010.sxsw.com/music and the two torrents (5GB total) of all the mp3’s on the SXSW website showcasing artists

+ Rick’s cohort on their driving adventure to Austin: Albert Maruggi (@albertmaruggi; blog; podcast)

+ Federal Communications Commission Broadband Plan (includes discussed broadband speed test) and its submission to Congress on 3/16/10 (NYTimes article; FCC broadband blog).

Minnov8 Gang 69: “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

March 6, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Opportunity and growth is all around us and glimmers of it are appearing in the web, mobile and other tech spaces. But are you willing to take the risks, explore and deal with all the obstacles in the way of you seeking riches?

In the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Humphrey Bogart’s character Dobbs, and two other gringos, embark in to Mexico to find gold in the Sierra Madres, an area in great flux and riddled with banditos, but policed by the Federales. In one of the signature lines in the movie the banditos, trying to convince Dobbs and his cronies that they’re Federales, say, “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” (usually misquoted as “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!“). There are several moral and philosophical questions in the movie and Dobbs dies, the banditos are killed by the Federales, the gold is lost and thus the analogy might as clear as mud: chasing opportunities won’t be easy but they’re out there; barriers and obstacles (and bandits) stand in your way; but we thought exploring opportunistic thoughts in this podcast was worthwhile.

Special Guest: For part of the podcast, Meg Canada joins us to talk about libraries, the iPad and more. Meg is a senior librarian for Web Services and Training at Hennepin County Library and currently coordinates public training and social media efforts for the library. She volunteers helping with the Unsummit, recently presented at MinneWebCon, and is a regular contributor to Social Media Breakfast.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: “Santa Maria” by Will Kriski from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.