Twitter came out with a new search service this week and it enables you to view your first tweet…or the first tweet of anyone else’s Twitter handle you’d like to input. Fun stuff but when Twitter was first launched really took off in early 2007, the four of us had the same initial reaction as old Ed in the photo above: What the heck is this Twitter thing?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Devil On My Shoulder by Herbie D and The Dangermen. Brought to us by Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

• Mobile March recap
• Minneapolis’ FirstTech, Apple retailing pioneer, is closing 
• Minnesota software company moving to Austin 
• NFC takes another blow as 7-Eleven, Best Buy shut it down
• Chromebooks are beginning to give the Windows world serious competition
• Minneapolis to regulate ride-share companies

Other Top Stories

• Graeme covers the Gigaom Structure Data Conference. Of note:
  • The incredible personal story of Ramona Pierson and how it informed her data startup, Declara
  • Sean Gourley, CTO, Quid: “How humans and machines can team up to solve big problems”
  • Dennis Crowley on Foursquare’s first two years collecting data, next two years making data usable – and now what?
  • Mentions of SpaceCurve & D-Wave Systems (Wikipedia on D-Wave)… and an opposing view of D-Wave’s quantum computing
• Netflix
  • Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality
  • Netflix & Level 3 Only Telling Half The Story, Won’t Detail What Changes They Want To Net Neutrality
  • AT&T Criticizes Netflix’s ‘Arrogant’ Network Traffic Proposal
• Inside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators
  • Google encrypts Gmail between data centers to keep the NSA out of your inbox
• Before He Died, Steve Jobs Told Top Executives Apple Would Not Be Making A TV

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• Overall attacks on mobile devices are accelerating, but 98.05% of all mobile malware targets Android. The tip? Only download apps from an official app store and keep Android updated!
  • SecureList: Mobile Malware Evolution
  • Mobile Malware, High-Risk Apps Hit 1M Mark
  • Sophos Security Threat Report 2014 (PDF)
    • Sophos Security Trends for 2014
  • Noted: Brian Krebs, who runs Krebs on Security and broke the Target data breach story, posted that Sony Pictures Plans Movie About Yours Truly

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• SMBMSP #64, Social Media Case Studies, March 28th
• EduTech 2014 Showcase & Forum Noon-7pm Wednesday, April 2nd
• Minnebar, Saturday, April 12th. Details to come…
• Overnight Website Challenge, April 12th-13th
• MinneWebCon, April 14 & 15, U of MN
• SMBMSP #65 – 8 Golden Rules for Sure-Fire Success with Facebook Ads, April 14th
• Educelerate Twin Cities: EdTech Founder’s Stories, April 16th
• Startup Weekend – Education, May 2nd
• MHTA Spring Conference-Stanley Hubbard to Keynote, May 6th

Phil’s longest phone ever and the Gang’s first tweets in 2007 (click either for a larger view):

The biggest story this week was the Target holiday cyber breach hits 40 million payment cards. We jokingly said we should—like in the movie Blazing Saddles where Slim Picken’s character encounters a toll booth in the middle of the desert and, rather than go around it, exclaims to his posse that “Somebody’s got to go back and get a sh*tload of dimes!” (at youtube)—start paying our checkout amount at Target with bags of dimes.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Ruth’s Boogie  Artist: Jake Lear. Brought to us by Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota Stories

• Target Breach
  • Dec 13th story broken by Brian Krebs: Target Investigating Data Breach 
  • Advice for leery Target customers from creditcards.com
  • Target security breach: Questions and answers
  • Target CEO offers credit monitoring, discount and four-part video apology for data breach
  • One estimate: Cost of Target data breach could hit $680 million
  • Stolen Target Credit Cards Are Selling For $20 – $100 Each
  • Target’s Biggest PR Mistake With Credit Card Security Breach
  • Check your Credit
• Apple’s Mac Pro Debuts
  • Twin Cities creative professionals look forward to new Mac Pro, with reservations
  • Up close and personal with the new Mac Pro (hands-on) 
• Best Buy: 2013’s top retail stories: Best Buy bounces back
• QFOLabs: Toy copter that bombed on Kickstarter now on Brookstone

Other Stories

• Twitter Turns Ugly Over PR Person’s Idiotic Tweet
  • How a racist tweet caused an internet meltdown and got a PR woman fired
• Walt Mossberg: The Exit Interview
  • Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5 (Full Session)
• Google
  • The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android
  • After recall, Google releases updated HP Chromebook 11 with newly-designed power adapter

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• Use Extreme Caution With Your Debit Card (this is a detailed post here on Minnov8)

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• MHTA Event at Mpls Institute of Arts – Jan 9, 2014
• Minneapolis Public Schools STEM Expo – Tuesday, Feb 12, 2014
• Mobile March March 20, 2014 – Tickets on sale now!