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Minnov8 Gang 380 – IoT’s Yin & Yang

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yin-yang_mainIn Chinese philosophy and religion there are two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things. This week we experienced both with the Internet of Things (IoT): The massive distributed denial of service on Friday was definitely ‘yin’ and today’s IoTHackday was definitely a positive and bright ‘yang’.

Hosts: Steve Borsch and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week)

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Minnov8 Gang 379 – Hacking the Internet of Things

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iothackday_mainOne of the most interesting Internet of Things (IoT) events of the year is IoTHackday, a fun, FREE day that brings together teams, novel ideas, and an entrepreneurial spirit to dream up and build cool new devices to solve everyday problems.

Teams form, submit their ideas ahead of the event, and hack for 12 hours. The public is invited to attend at the end of the day at 8pm, vote for their favorite teams. Top teams receive hardware and prizes!

Justin Grammens is our guest this week (see profile below) and he tells all about IoTHackday, an event started with Patrick Delaney, and one you will definitely want to attend.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Buddy Guy Catfish by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License

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This Week’s Guest: Justin Grammens

justin-grammensJustin Grammens is a founding partner of Lab 651, building the next generation of connected devices, owner of Recursive Awesome, an IoT data analytics consulting company and publisher of IoT Weekly, a publication covering current trends on the Internet of Things.

He is also a co-founder of IoTFuse, a 501(c)(3) non-profit to advance the Internet of Things, and an adjunct professor teaching a graduate level course on the Internet of Things at the University of Saint Thomas.

In addition to all of that we’re told Justin occasionally sleeps and, when not doing so, is a devoted husband as well as a great father to two young boys.

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Minnov8 Gang 378 – “Cloud” is the Answer

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cloud_mainWe cover the usual Minnesota tech stories as well as other top ones, but our guest this week is all about the cloud. Tom Iverson is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with a Minneapolis firm and we dig in to questions about cloud computing and why it’s the answer.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Penitentiary Blues by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License

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This Week’s Guest – Tom Iverson

tom-iversonTom Iverson (LinkedIn) is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with RBA, Inc., a firm specializing in Cloud, DevOps, Application Lifecycle Management, custom software development, and integration. The firm is a national digital and technology consultancy based in Minneapolis and they’ve been recognized as one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies and consistently named a Best Place to Work.

We discuss RBA’s focus, the acceleration in cloud solutions, spend some time on cloud security, and chat a bit about their client base.

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Minnov8 Gang 377 – Don’t Hire Me Bro!

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dont-hire-me-bro_mainYou may remember the protestor at Secretary John Kerry’s talk at U of Florida and that guy wouldn’t leave so the cops Tased him as he yelled out, “Don’t tase me, bro!!” The video of the guy screaming that out became an internet meme in 2007 and so it was the first thing that came to mind when we discussed one of our first Minnesota tech stories called High-tech Talent Grab. The focus of the story was about Twin Cities companies essentially being raided for their tech talent.

But is that apparent tech-talent-raiding a good thing or a bad one? Is it really happening? Find out what’s really going on in this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Latin by beatfn under a CC by 3.0 License

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Minnov8 Gang 376 – Down the Well

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down-the-well-mainPhil Wilson, aka “Mr. Acoustics“, comes to us from the Minneapolis BuzzFeed office conference room. As a former radio DJ, Phil knows a thing or two about good acoustics, microphones, and sounding your best. THAT is why it’s so fun to tease him about his “down the well” acoustics this week!  😉

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Beaumont Rag by Walker Winn under a CC by 3.0 License

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Minnov8 Gang 375 – Cable TV For Dogs?

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During our rundown of the latest in Minnesota tech stories we learn about the latest from PetChatz, who stream DOGTV on their videophone. Who knew dogs have their own cable channel? We also get updates from CoCo, SecretValet, CodeWeavers and more!

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week)
Music: Guude Boulderfist Acoustic Rendition by rdriftwood under a CC by 3.0 License

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Minnov8 Gang 374 – Who’s Driving?

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whos-driving-main2Quite an interesting set of stories to discuss this week and we also have on as our guest Mark Wilkie, CTO, for the new Who’s Driving app.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Blues Menor by EMCA L’Hospitalet under a CC by 3.0 License

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Mark Wilkie (Twitter), CTO, Who’s Driving app. Mark spent the early part of his coding career in Minneapolis. He moved to New York City and joined Buzzfeed in it’s earliest days. After leaving his role as CTO there early this year, he moved his family back to MN and is now CTO of startup Who’s Driving.

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Minnov8 Gang 373 – Smooth, Sexy & Social

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Photo credit: Nancy Kuehn for MSPBJ

Our own Phil Wilson has a profile story by Katharine Grayson in this past week’s Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Titled Face Time: BuzzFeed General Manager Phil Wilson, the story requires a subscription to MSPBJ, but Phil gives an overview of what’s in it and it’s a nice introductory piece of Phil in MSPBJ’s “Face Time” series.

Tim and I were a bit disappointed after seeing MSPBJ photographer Nancy Kuehn‘s photo for the story. We both thought that Katharine didn’t title it correctly and it should have been: Face Time: BuzzFeed GM Phil Wilson is Smooth, Sexy & Social. Perhaps a followup story will probe Phil’s smooth, sexy, social persona.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Swing Swing Blues by DJ Ecklectic Mick  under a CC by 3.0 License

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Minnov8 Gang 372 – The Zamfir Fanboy

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zamfir-tim-mainBefore we started the show we were talking about our kids and I mentioned playing Raffi for my daughter (over-and-over-and-over again!). But it wasn’t until this show that Phil and I learned that Tim has been a closeted fanboy of the pan flute master, Zamfir. How could we have known? We didn’t ask, but probably should have found out if Tim runs this video’s audio on an endless loop during his workday.*

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Bottle Blues by BASIL under a CC by 3.0 License

*You’ll have to listen to the show to find out if Tim is actually a fanboy, or is being tweaked.

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Tim: THE SIOUX CHEF: A Native American Restaurant

Steve: New lithium metal tech can create ultralight car batteries and thinner phones

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Minnov8 Gang 371 – The Poopening

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doggie_mainAn amusing story went viral this past week from a guy whose dog left his “deposit” on the floor one evening and later, when this guy’s Roomba scooted around the apartment doing it’s vacuuming job, it smeared the deposit everywhere! This story was Phil’s “Cool Thing of the Week” and he links below to the original Facebook story so you can read this guy’s horrific account for yourself.

NOTE: Save for that one story, we take the ‘high road’ on the rest of the podcast and talk about important tech stuff. 😉

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: May Your Life Be Sweet And Simple by Walker Winn under a CC by 3.0 License

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