Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Minnov8 Gang 68: Falling Through the Cloud?

February 20, 2010 By Steve Borsch

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The reliability of the cloud is something that is discussed whenever there is a major outage of any kind. WordPress.com’s outage this past week took down sites like TechCrunch, GigaOM and over 10.2M other blogs. Media Temple (a place Tim and Steve host sites at) has consistent issues with slowness on their Grid Service and database calls (sometimes reeeeeally slow). All of our increasing reliance on the cloud is becoming more and more important as we shift our computing online.

We also discuss the Flash and iPad/iPhone controversy, Comcast bandwidth metering, upcoming events and more.

This Week’s Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week)
Music by The Birdinumnums and the tune is “Thirteen Steps”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

The Podcast

Discussed during the show:

Cloud Computing links:
- Google backup articles from Lifehacker, Webmonkey, Labnol
- Virtual container company: Jumpbox
- Funny take from “Shouts from the Abyss” called, “The Great WordPress Outage of 2010“
- Comcast Bandwidth Metering in the Twin Cities
- Upcoming Event: CloudcampMSP
Flash and the iPad/iPhone controversy:
- New York Times article about no Flash on the iPad
- Steve’s post about a personal Flash video test
- Article about Adobe blocking HTML5 specification from supporting Flash
- AppleInsider’s post entitled, “Inside Apple’s iPad: Adobe Flash“. It’s a three page article so be sure to read all the pages
- An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash
Other links:
- Doc Searls (@docsearls)
- Maverick Beach south of San Francisco and this awesome video of a surfer
- Events:

Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow?

February 13, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme is off this week)
Music: Mean Gene Kelton and the Diehards and the tune is “Running from the Law”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

The Podcast

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+ Google Buzz
+ Greg Litman (WCCO News & Sports producer) post on Arik Hanson’s blog
+ Juicy Lucy controversy
+ Phil’s video interview with Chris Brogan: “Catching Up With Chris”
+ Garrick Van Buren‘s Cullect.com
+ Steve’s post about Where are you paying attention?
+ Sarah Lacy controversy at SXSW & Danah Boyd’s Web 2.0 Expo speech and Twitter debacle
+ Craig Neal from Heartland Circle and his Art of Convening
+ Steve’s post about MSNBC’s awesome Super Tuesday primary coverage
+ The perfect valentine for social media folks to their sweetie: a “broquet” (a bacon bouquet)
+ What’s up with St. Valentine and how did we get to the point of giving cards, flowers and chocolate? (bonus link: History of Valentine’s Day)

Minnov8 Gang 66: Flat Is The New Up?

February 6, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Is it true that “Flat Is The New Up?” Not if you’re a company just outside St. Cloud, Sartell-based w3i, which is consistently proving that “Up Is The New Up” every quarter through quite impressive and sustained growth. Our guest on this week’s podcast, co-founder Rob Weber (@robertjweber), tells us how they got started and what they’re up to now.

W3i was marketing apps when apps weren’t even cool and their founding is a great story. In 2000, the three Weber brothers (Ryan, Aaron and Rob) discovered the power of free and launched Freeze.com. Along with their team, they developed applications to satisfy users’ pent up demand for free content while pioneering new revenue models to spread the development and marketing costs across millions of installations — over 250 million to date.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (and thanks to Phil for tossing out the meme “flat is the new up” on the podcast!)
Music by Josh Woodward and the tune is “Stickybee”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

Discussed during the show notes:

Adam Ostrow; InstallIQ
Rob’s new monthly column on the topic of “app marketing” for the popular digital media blog “ClickZ” and Ryan Weber of W3i presented at “Add-on Con” at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on the topic of marketing browser add-ons. W3i co-sponsored the event, along with Google and Mozilla.
Local MN: FieldNation; MobileMarchTC, sponsored in part by Minnov8; MinneDemo; BuildAnApp
Innovate100
CoolIris
“Report: Google to Open App Store for Business Software – PCWorld Business Center“
The book: Free Agent Nation by Dan Pink

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 65: Talking the Apple iPad

January 30, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Thursday’s Apple iPad launch was the most hotly anticipated technology launch event in years. To say there was enthusiasm for the device amongst many is obvious, but the disappointment felt by technologists and geeks is palpable. We explore the iPad — it’s good points and bad — with Julio Ojeda Zapata, the St. Paul Pioneer Press (TwinCities.com) technology reporter who was at the event and had hands-on use of the device and he was live tweeting and posting photos which you can see on this page (http://minnov8.com/tablet/).

As you probably already know, Julio writes a Tech Test Drive column about gadgets, apps and social media (among other things). He is the author of Twitter Means Business, one of the first books about Twitter. He is also a sometime co-host of the Minnov8 Gang podcast (and will join us this Saturday to discuss this Apple event in more detail) and focuses his commentary on tech trends. See his Posterous geekstream. Contact him by e-mail or follow him on Twitter.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Duane Andrews and the tune is “Mr. Butler”.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show notes:

+ Like to see the iPad Nano?
+ Mary Meeker’s Web 2.0 Summit presentation (PDF) & we referred to slide #38
+ Video of Walt Mossberg at the iPad launch, a portion of which he’s talking with Steve Jobs
+ Bill Heyman of Minnesota-based Codemorphic (mobile app developers) post on the iPad
+ Steve Borsch’s article on MinnPost about the iPad & his Apple A4 chip post and another post on Apple opening up VoIP
+ Leo Laporte head of TWiT and tech journalist Natali Del Conte
+ Stanza was acquired in 2009 by Amazon & The Wall Street Journal’s take on Apple vs. Amazon
+ Hitler’s response to the iPad

Minnov8 Gang 64: “Less Talk, More Walk”

January 23, 2010 By Steve Borsch

In a post yesterday entitled, “Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk“, tech recruiter Paul DeBettignies (MNHeadhunter) wrote a rant about what’s wrong and right about efforts within Minnesota to connect us all. With over 30 tweets and 50 comments since last night — most of which had strong opinions and great ideas — Paul’s rant clearly hit a nerve. In today’s podcast we continue the conversation and try to come up with some ideas and answers as we explore this topic in more depth.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by DJ ERIC ILL and the tune is, “8mm – Stunning remix by DJ Eric Ill and Scott Orlans”.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show:

+ Minnesota angel investment tax credit
+ “Film board-like” commission (e.g., MN Film & TV)
+ MN Cup
+ Mobile March at: mobilemarchtc.com

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

January 17, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Talk about cloud computing is on the lips of people from startups to enterprise to the government, and Minnesota has a world-class thought leader right here in our midst. The Minnov8 Gang chatted with George Reese about his perspectives, books, upcoming events, and what he thinks about software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and how API’s fit in to this whole shebang.

Hosts: This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Midnight Music Quartet and the tune is, “Sweet Lorraine”.

The Podcast

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About George Reese (@GeorgeReese): George Reese is the founder of two Minneapolis-based companies, enStratus Networks LLC (maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools) and Valtira LLC (maker of the Valtira Online Marketing Platform). Over the past 15 years, George has authored a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures.

Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud.

George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.

Discussed during the show notes:

CloudCamp Minneapolis 2 on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at Microsoft office in Bloomington, MN.
Visi’s Reliacloud
Jumpbox
Dasein Cloud and OCCI
Apple data center in North Carolina
ProgrammableWeb
Apps.gov
Alvenda.

Minnov8 Gang 62: Our 2010 Predictions

January 2, 2010 By Steve Borsch

Predicting 2010 technology is always a crapshoot, but there are enough clear trends that we weigh in with our predictions for this upcoming year and cover these key categories: Mobile; the Apple tablet; Curation of content/self publishing; Cloud computing; and some wildass predictions about Minnesota tech in 2010.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickin, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show:

Backupify
Google Nexus One
Ecommerce & credit card terminals: Minnesota’s Alvenda; Square; Innerfence
Netbook & mobile device operating systems (e.g., Android, ChromeOS (video; signup), Jolicloud)
BuzzMachine: “Content farms v. curating farmers“
Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink and a good article in Fast Company
Julio’s Book “Twitter means Business: How Microblogging can Help or Hurt your Company“
Newton eMate
Memetrackers: TechMeme & Blogrunner
“Temporary Workers and the 21st Century Economy – The surge in temp hiring is not a sign of a malfunctioning economy. It is the face of the future.”
The Rise of the Brand Journalist: “An open letter to journalists: You have an amazing career opportunity on the Dark Side“
Co-working: “Office (and Beanbag) Sharing Among Strangers“
Much better year coming for startups raising VC: “After Dry Year, Start-Ups Are Poised to Get Cash“

Opening music by DanielReal2K and their song “Twilight” and closing music from 46Bliss and their song “8 O’Clock Train – PKP Express Remix”. Both from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.

Minnov8 Gang 60: Staying Ahead of the Storm in 2010

December 12, 2009 By Steve Borsch

Main This week’s show is about possibilities with tablets, predictions made by an analyst firm, and a hodge-podge of stuff discussed by the Minnov8 Gang.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Endlouz and the tune is, “Bad Advice” (Disclaimer: This was NOT chosen as an indictment on the commentary by the Gang!)

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show:

+ Clove (by Spice Apps)
+ Analyst Noise on the Apple Tablet
+ IDC predictions for 2010
+ Minnebar
+ Mary Meeker’s Internet presentation at Web 2.0 Summit (video)
+ Jolicloud, Google Chrome OS
+ Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP)
+ Don Ball and his new collaboration workspace concept (announcement; pictures; pricing)
+ Overnight Website Challenge (please note the AWESOME faux dot matrix printer feed on the page…nice job nerds!)
+ Chuck Olsen (@Chuckumentary) in Copenhagen and here is TheUptake
+ 91st PGA Tournament at Hazeltine in Chaska and hundreds of Tiger Woods jokes.

Minnov8 Gang 59: Live from Minnebar

November 22, 2009 By Steve Borsch

Two of the four Gang members made it to Minnebar at the headquarters of Best Buy this past Saturday. All feedback was it was a fabulous event and Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson recorded this week’s podcast live at the event.

The Podcast

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