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Minnov8 Gang 293 – 2015 Predictions Show

December 27, 2014 By Steve Borsch

What predictions for 2014 did we hit? Miss? And what do we predict for 2015? Are we the four Christmas wisemen or something else? Listen to this show and find out.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Merry Christmas Baby by Calvin Owens. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:13:28 — 43.1MB)

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Story Links

Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

Past Week’s Other Big Stories

2015 Predictions Links

Cool Thing of the Week

Phil: Cool gingerbread creations
Tim: Aeon Labs DSC06106-ZWUS – Z-Wave Smart Energy Switch
Graeme: Slingbox M1
Steve: Plantronics Backbeat Go 2 — Bluetooth headset

Upcoming Events

Educelerate Twin Cities Demo2, January 14, 2015
Date Night: How Data Science Leads to “I do”, February 3, 2015 (tickets)
Mobile March, March 26th, 2015
IoT Fuse (Internet of Things event) in early April, 2015
Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 291 – Tim is NOT happy!

December 13, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Poor Vikings fanboy Tim Elliott. He doesn’t understand why Vikings RB Adrian Peterson’s suspension appeal denied by arbitrator. The other three of us, um, shook our shoulders and went on to talk technology innovation!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: The Complainer’s Boogie Woogie by William Clarke. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:26 — 44.9MB)

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Story Links

Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

Past Week’s Other Big Stories

Cool Thing of the Week

Phil: Pyro
Tim: The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson
Graeme: The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music
Steve: Media Temple SSD-based Grid, VPS and Dedicated

Upcoming Events

February
- Date Night: How Data Science Leads to “I do”, February 3, 2015 (tickets)
March
- Mobile March, March 26th, 2015
April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 290 – Adorable Doggie Mascot

December 6, 2014 By Steve Borsch

We are huge fans of the tech reporting done by Julio Ojeda-Zapata, so we couldn’t help but chuckle at his characterization of Target’s mascot dog “Bullseye” as an “adorable doggie mascot.” Never missing a chance to poke fun, we ended up with his perspective as our show title, while taking a few liberties with our own characterization of that “adorable” doggie!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott andPhil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: The Hustle is On by Johnny Nicholas. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:30 — 35.0MB)

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Story Links

Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

Buy a USB, bootable thumb drive to make certain you’re secure while shopping or banking:
- ZeusGard is $24.95 at Amazon
Make your own version:
- Tails
- Take a Secure Desktop Everywhere

Cool Thing of the Week

Phil: Orion Space Capsule Launch
Tim: WinBook TW700 Windows 8.1 Tablet, a $59 tablet that includes an Office 365 subscription worth $69.
Steve: Wire
- Ex-Skypers unveil Wire app, offering voice, messaging and more

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
December
- TIES 2014 Education Technology Conference, December 6th
- Mobile Twin Cities, December 8th, CoCo Minneapolis. Topics:
  - The World of Wireframes: Communicating with Developers-Brigitte Dahlberg, co-founder, PureXRD
  - A Standard Non-Disclosure Agreement: There’s No Such Thing-Devan Padmanabhan and Brett Klein, Winthrop & Weinstine
March 2015
- Mobile March Twin Cities (date TBD)

April 2015
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 289 – I LOVE My TV

November 22, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Julio Ojeda-Zapata from St. Paul Pioneer Press’ TwinCities.com (Julio writes YourTechWeblog) joins us and, during our “Black Friday Deals” discussion, we learned that Julio absolutely LOVES his TV…so much so that he hugs it. Um…OK. 😉

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson are off).
Music: 4.23 by Chris Greene Quartet. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:12:16 — 42.2MB)

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Story Links

Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

Other Top Stories

Government
- USA Freedom Act for NSA reform is voted down in the Senate
- Daniel: Obama will likely enact panel’s advice on blunting cyber risks
Aereo files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, says “challenges have proven too difficult to overcome”
Gadgets & Wearables
- Nexus 6; HTC 1; LG 3 and MotoG; Moto360; Microsoft Band
Black Friday (or should it be called “Black November”?)

Cool Thing of the Week

Tim: Hemingwrite
Steve: Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
Julio: ByWord and Polaroid Cube

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
December
- TIES 2014 Education Technology Conference, December 6th
- Mobile Twin Cities, December 8th, CoCo Minneapolis. Topics:
  - The World of Wireframes: Communicating with Developers-Brigitte Dahlberg, co-founder, PureXRD
  - A Standard Non-Disclosure Agreement: There’s No Such Thing-Devan Padmanabhan and Brett Klein, Winthrop & Weinstine
March 2015
- Mobile March Twin Cities (date TBD)

April 2015
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 288 – Don’t Stick It In Unless You Know Where It’s Been

November 15, 2014 By Steve Borsch

The Security Tip of the Week, and the basis for the innuendo in the title, is to point out the danger of sticking any-old USB thumb drive in to your computer and why. Listen to find out more.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Wah Blues by Nite Kats. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04:40 — 37.9MB)

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Story Links

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
November
- Educelerate Twin Cities Games for Learning and Social Causes Nov. 18th
December
- TIES 2014 Education Technology Conference, December 6th
- Mobile Twin Cities, December 8th, CoCo Minneapolis. Topics:
  - The World of Wireframes: Communicating with Developers-Brigitte Dahlberg, co-founder, PureXRD
  - A Standard Non-Disclosure Agreement: There’s No Such Thing-Devan Padmanabhan and Brett Klein, Winthrop & Weinstine
March 2015
- Mobile March Twin Cities (date TBD)

April 2015
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang #284 – Breakfast of Champions

October 18, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Inventor Dean Kamen is on our minds since he was just in town as one of the keynoter’s for the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit. This guy is incredibly prolific which begs the question: Why isn’t Dean Kamen on a Wheaties box?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: Deep Blue Sky by Chris Harper. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08:51 — 40.3MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

Phil’s live report from IoT Hackday
- Justin Grammens & Sam Schroeder launch IoTWeeklyNews
Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit recap
- MIMA Summit Keynoters
  - About Dean Kamen
    - Kamen documentary called Slingshot debuting this week and is about Kamen and his amazing new invention shown in this clip
  - About Jaron Lanier
  - About Amy Webb
U.S. Internet has plans for a broader Twin Cities broadband

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

The article by Maurits Martijn which spawned this week’s security tip: “Maybe It’s Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi: We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, what schools they attended, and the last five things they googled.”
- You’re in Danger on Public Wifi! (Steve’s post)
- Private Internet Access
- Wifi Pineapple only $99.99
- Hak 5 Forums how-to WiFi Pineapple University

Cool Thing of the Week

Julio: Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard
Phil: Makey Makey Standard Kit
Tim: With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
- Maybe not so cool: Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders
- So… Onion Pi
Steve: The Orb

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
October
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
- Midwest Mobile Summit-Minneapolis, Oct 23rd (teams of three can register here)
- Medication Management Code-a-Thon, Oct. 24-26
- Midwest Innovation Summit, Oct 27-28
November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
- MHTA’s Tekne Awards, Nov 13th
- MobCon: Where Mobile Minds Connect, Nov 13-14th, Hyatt, Mpls
March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 282- Miss Fit

October 4, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Tim’s “Cool Thing of the Week” inspired this week’s show name and image, but we had a lot more interesting stories to cover and did. Some serious, some not so much.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Banjo Tango by Cynthia Sayer. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:12:28 — 42.4MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

Graeme’s event recaps: MinneAnalytics and MN Venture Finance Conference
- MinneAnalytics: Bringing people together to talk about ‘big data’
- MinneAnalytics adds two board members
- Graeme’s “Big Data in the Wild” Flipboard magazine
Supervalu hit with second data breach, including four metro Cub Foods stores
JPMorgan Chase bank hack: It gets worse
Ten Minnesota startups picked to compete for $100K from Steve Case
3M adds a digital approach to the low-tech Post-It Note
Minnesota affiliates get back to business with Amazon

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

Cool Thing of the Week

Phil: Cyanogen
Tim: Misfit Flash fitness & sleep tracker
Graeme: SNAP! 6
Steve: Switch.co

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
October
- The Mobile Shift: Marketing, Sales, & Customer Service in the Enterprise, Oct 9th, 5-7 pm, Open Book, Mpls
- WordUP Minneapolis 2014, Oct 11-12, 2014
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- Mobile Twin Cities, October 13th, Mobile UI/UX
- Educelerate Twin Cities bootcamp Oct. 14th
- MIMA Summit: Rise of the Machines, Oct 15th
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
- Midwest Mobile Summit-Minneapolis, Oct 23rd, 1-5 pm, CoCo Uptown (teams of three can register here)
November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
- MobCon: Where Mobile Minds Connect, Nov 13-14th, Hyatt, Mpls
March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 280 – Catch a Silicon North Star

September 20, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Our guest this week is Steve Grove. Steve and his wife Mary, a husband and wife team, started Silicon North Stars, an initiative that brought 16 students from Minneapolis-St.Paul to spend one week in Silicon Valley this summer. They met with Internet and technology leaders from top companies, startups, and venture capital funds. The week began with an intensive series of lectures, tours, discussions, and group activities at companies throughout the area, and ended up culminating with a group project in which the students paired up to pitch their own tech startups.

Steve grew up in Northfield, Minnesota and is the Director of Community Partnerships for Google. Mary grew up in San Diego, California and is the Director of Google for Entrepreneurs. Both are passionate about technology, development, media, and striving to create access to opportunities for young talent. They live in Menlo Park, California.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: One Man Band Fury by Stomping Nick and His Blues Grenade. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:21 — 38.2MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

Guest: Steve Grove

Interview Mentions

Cool Thing of the Week

Phil: The iPhone 6
Tim: ZTE ZMAX
Graeme: Intel Wireless Charging Bowl
Steve: Obi200 (PDF datasheet) for Google Voice (and SIP), now fully compatible. Steve’s post on using it: Use Google Voice with a Phone for Next-to-Nothing

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
September
- MinneAnalytics “Marketing Analytics” Conference (#MAMAmn), Sept. 30th, 8:00am-5:00pm+beer (Eventbrite link coming soon @MinneAnalytics and their website)
October
- Prestige Conference 2014, Oct 3-4, 2014, U of St. Thomas
- WordUP Minneapolis 2014, Oct 11-12, 2014
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Saturday, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- MIMA Summit: Rise of the Machines, Oct 15th
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Saturday Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

Minnov8 Gang 277 – I’ve Heard It’s Big, Really Big!

August 30, 2014 By Steve Borsch

Lots of rumors about Apple’s upcoming September 9th new product announcement. We discuss the iPhone 6 rumor, how big it is, how these new, big smartphones (dubbed “phablets” for phone/tablets) may be negatively impacting tablet sales, and a whole lot more.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Love Dog by Chris Juergensen. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04:59 — 38.2MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

Last Week’s Other Top Stories

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

Be safe, or keep a loved one safe, with a tracker app like StaySafe Personal. This app notifies friends or family if you are in trouble or don’t check-in safely. It sends your phone’s location via email or SMS so you can be found fast.

Gang’s “One Cool Thing of the Week”

Phil: LastPass
Tim: Raspberry Pi Model B+
Graeme: New analytics Twitter was testing with some, now available to all (CLICK HERE here to see a view of Graeme’s Twitter analytics)
Steve: OwnCloud & OwnCloud Providers

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
September
- Twin Cities Startup Week and Startup Weekend Sept. 9-14 (multiple events)
- “Gigabit Highway” conference, Minneapolis Sept. 2-4
- Mobile Twin Cities: Smartwatches: Past, Present and Future Sept. 8th
- Beta.mn 1.5, Sept 9th, 6:00-9:00 pm, Worrell Design
- Tech Cocktail’s Twin Cities Mixer & Startup Showcase Sep 10th
- MinneDemo 18, September 11th
- SMBMSP #70 – Social Media Trends, with featured speakers from…@Minnov8! Sept 12th, 8:00-10:00 am (tickets to be released next week)
- Fundraising and Intellectual Property Considerations, a free event for startups at TreeHouse Health, Sept. 16th
- MHTA Tekne Awards Finalist Announcements, Wed Sept 17th
- MinneAnalytics “Marketing Analytics” Conference (#MAMAmn), Sept. 30th, 8:00am-5:00pm+beer (Eventbrite link coming soon @MInneAnalytics and their website)
October
- Prestige Conference 2014, Oct 3-4, 2014, U of St. Thomas
- WordUP Minneapolis 2014, Oct 11-12, 2014
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Saturday, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Saturday Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015

We also briefly mention the movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia which prompted the creation of this graphic. It was going to be the original image for this podcast post, but we thought better of it in light of what’s going on in the world today:

Minnov8 Gang 276 – A World’s Fair in the Land of 10,000 Lakes?

August 23, 2014 By Steve Borsch

This week’s guest is Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at the ad agency Fallon. Through Fallon’s effort called Starter Kit, they have taken a role in driving awareness for Minnesota’s campaign, called Expo 2023, which is an effort to win the decision to host the World’s Fair in Minnesota in 2023. The guy behind the campaign is Mark Ritchie, former MN Secretary of State.

By the way, you can help crowdfund the effort right now by going to the Indiegogo campaign for Expo 2023, Minnesota World’s Fair.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Kissin’ in Your Sleep by Barry McCabe. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:10:47 — 41.4MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

Last Week’s Other Top Stories

Minnov8 Guest: Marty Wetherall

Marty and the Gang discuss Fallon’s latest crowdfunding client, Expo 2023, with these links from the discussion:

Indiegogo campaign for Expo 2023, Minnesota World’s Fair
- Minneapolis Entrepreneurs Launch Innovation on a Stick at Minnesota State Fair and that “Innovation on a Stick” will be served at their Minnesota State Fair booth located in the Lower Grandstand, Booth #22.
- Mentioned Chicago World’s Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition)
  - List of World Fairs
Fallon’s Starter Kit Initiative
- Fast Company article on Fallon’s StarterKit
- Starter Kit client Sabertron
  - Sabertron’s first unsuccessful effort on Kickstarter
  - Sabertron’s effort with Fallon’s Starter Kit involvement
Innovator’s Dilemma by Harvard Business School Professor and author, Clayton Christensen

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
September
- Twin Cities Startup Week and Startup Weekend Sept. 9-14 (multiple events)
- “Gigabit Highway” conference, Minneapolis Sept. 2-4
- Mobile Twin Cities, Smartwatches: Past, Present and Future Sept. 8th
- MinneDemo 18, September 11th
- SMBMSP #70 – Social Media Trends, with featured speakers from…@Minnov8! Sept 12th, 8:00-10:00 am (tickets to be released next week)
- Fundraising and Intellectual Property Considerations, a free event for startups at TreeHouse Health, Sept. 16th
- MHTA Tekne Awards Finalist Announcements, Wed Sept 17th
- MinneAnalytics “Marketing Analytics” Conference (#MAMAmn), Sept. 30th, 8:00am-5:00pm+beer (Eventbrite link coming soon @MInneAnalytics and their website)
October
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Saturday, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Saturday Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th

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