Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: Rocket Science from Brain Buckit. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Minnesota Stories
  • Target testing Netflix-like streaming service
  • U.S. Home Entertainment Spending Dips 1.5% on Falling DVD Sales
  • Minnesota’s angel credits all gone — for now
  • iNeuron: Working together to learn neuroscience!
  • Google Glass tester eyes the future of ‘wearable’ computing 
• Google I/O
  • Google unveils Hangouts for Android, iOS, and Chrome
  • Google redesigns Maps for Android, iPad version coming this summer
  • Google announces conversational Voice Search coming to desktop through Chrome
  • Coming Soon From Google: A $649 Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Stock Android
  • Google Play Books enables user ebook uploads, Google Drive support
  • Larry Page to Robert Scoble: “Robert, I really didn’t appreciate the shower photo.“
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
  • Do not use secure anything in a Skype IM.

Upcoming Events…

• Visualizing Neighborhoods/A Hackathon for Good, Saturday, May 25, 9:00am – 6:00pm
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Saturday, June 1st – Sunday, June 2nd
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center
• WordPress MSP, Thursday, June 27th at 7pm, The Nerdery
• Twin Cities Drupal Camp 2013, July 18-20
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week).
Music: Don’t Walk Away from Smoke Ring Days. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Minnesota Stories
  • Spark is crushing it on Kickstarter
  • Phil’s First 10 days with the HTC One
    • Good sales of HTC One lead to a second month of sequential growth for HTC
    • Fargo Roadtrip: Midwest Mobile Summit
  • Target partners with Facebook to push its digital Cartwheel to shoppers
    • Facebook Scam Alert – What Really Happens When You “Like”
  • Dell Acquires Enstratius
• Internet Sales Tax
  • A guide to the Internet sales tax bill, and what it will mean for you 
  • Internet sales tax: What you’ll pay, and when
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week: We won’t need no stinkin’ passwords!*
  • Apple buys biometric security company AuthenTec for $356 million
  • Apple Invents Biometric Features for e-Commerce & Security
  • NSA on Biometric Security Considerations (PDF)

Upcoming Events…

• Looking for Start-Up Capital? Monday May 13th, Carlson School UofMN
• Exploring Big Data and Scaling Social Wednesday, May 15, 7:30am
• Visualizing Neighborhoods/A Hackathon for Good, Saturday, May 25, 9:00am – 6:00pm
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Saturday, June 1st – Sunday, June 2nd
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23

*Reference to the quote “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!“ (actually a misquote) from the movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” (15 second clip from the movie here).

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).
Music: Surfin’ with Slayer from Glitter Dick. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Minnesota Stories:
  • MHTA‘s Spring Conference recap
    • Cyber Security Summit
    • RedWing Ignite
    • UofMN Office of Business Relations
  • SMBMSP
  • Carlson School SOBACO event
  • Google for Entrepreneurs at CoCoMSP
  • Spark Devices Launches ‘Spark Core’
  • Best Buy:
    • Best Buy sells stake in European venture to Carphone Warehouse
    • Best Buy’s European exit means retailer will need to tap inner talent for innovation
    • Best Buy’s new eCommerce chief to focus on deal streaming
  • JamStik – Real Strings, Real Frets. Turn your iPad into a Real Instrument
• Google:
  • Google Now Launches On iOS
  • Google Now feeds you Twin Cities info as you require it
  • Google Glass review (Explorer Edition)
• Apple:
  • Apple’s Stock Price and Twitter Analysis Amplification 
  • Horace Dediu on the bad habits of Apple analysts and why Tim Cook shouldn’t be fired
• Whacky Kickstarter Project of The Week?:
  • Casetop – Every Phone Becomes a Laptop
• Other:
  • Palm Foleo

Upcoming Events…

• Google for Entrepreneurs, STEP-UP Achieve Training Program, Saturday, May 4, 2013 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
• Visualizing Neighborhoods/A Hackathon for Good, Saturday, May 25, 9:00am – 6:00pm
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM – Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Please Don’t from Vince Carpentieri. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• MN Stories
  • Minnesota venture funding dips sharply in first quarter
  • Update Logic, Inc. (SEC info; management)
    • AT&T Digital Life
  • Damn, “Donuts” died – a favorite local radio personality
  • PetChatz
    • PetChatz is webcam, treat and odor dispenser for pets and their ‘parents’ 
    • Pet Industry Market Size & Ownership Statistics
  • Best Buy sets new high for recycling electronics
  • Internet Sales Tax
• Google Glass
  • I Just Wore Google’s Glasses For 2 Weeks And I’m Never Taking Them Off
  • Google Glass: the tech’s desirable but it might not be socially acceptable
  • What is Augmented Reality?
  • How Google Glass will change porn forever
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
  • ANOTHER Java Security Flaw (just remove Java if you’re not using it)
    • Remove Java
      • Windows
      • Mac
      • Disable Java (*not* Javascript!) in your web browser
• Gang Mentality: Apple Deathwatch?
  • 7 Reasons Apple is More Doomed Than You Think
  • The impossible task of fixing Apple
  • Apple’s iCloud servers once again experiencing major outages
  • The Bull Case for Apple
  • Apple’s Solid-After-All Quarter In Charts
• Emerging Global Scandal
  • Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

Upcoming Events…

• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Lisa Sabin Wilson speaking
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• Google Happy Hour, Friday, May 3, 5:30-9:30 pm, CoCo-Minneapolis
• Google for Entrepreneurs, STEP-UP Achieve Training Program, Saturday, May 4, 2013 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, CoCo-Minneapolis (More info: Jess Myers, jessm(at)ewald(dot)com)
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Sat/Sun, June 1st & 2nd
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Bernie’s Tune from Chris Greene Quartet. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Minnesota
  • Minnesotans Rank Last in Creating New Businesses
  • Minnesota’s VC take rises to $38M in Q1
  • Minnesota Twins adds tech at Target Field for fans
  • Local Webby nominees honored on ‘Webbyapolis’ site
  • If Google Reader and Pinterest had a love child: Sauna
    • Developed by local startup Curbly
• Google Glass
  • Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed
  • Google Emulates Apple in Restricting Apps for Glass
  • Larry Page: Google’s Focus On Constant Iteration Will Shift Toward Big Bets Like Google Fiber And Glass
  • Google Glass Sucks! (image of guy above from this parody video)
• A Review of iSteve. Spoiler Alert: This Movie Sucks
• The Best LED Lightbulb Is the Cree Warm White
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week: VPNs
  • What is a VPN?
  • Build your own VPN
  • Why You Should Start Using a VPN (and How to Choose the Best One for Your Needs)

Upcoming Events…

• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Lisa Sabin Wilson speaking
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Sat/Sun, June 1st & 2nd
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tuckassee Train from Charlie Crowe. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Minnebar (the sessions held)
• Heroic, Inc.
  • Schafer: Minneapolis start-up hopes to tap power of referrals
  • Angie’s List
  • Patch
• Tablets in Education
  • Tablets are transforming learning in many west metro classrooms
  • iPad Top 100 Deployments (includes education ones)
• Aereo
  • New Threat to Aereo TV
  • Comcast gets 63% of revenue from cable TV
• The New Résumé
  • The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
  • A guy did this cool Amazon-like résumé
    
  • LinkedIn Elicits Gasps, Cheers For Talent-Spotting Algorithms
• What’s with all these new music services?
  • Spotify
  • RDIO
  • Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It 
  • Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki
  • Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio
• Apple News Roundup
  • T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program 
  • T-Mobile: First day for Apple’s iPhone was ‘gangbusters’
  • Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
  • Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini? 
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
  • Global Brute Force Attacks Build WordPress Botnet
    • Easy fix – delete (or never use) the default admin username!
    • Geek fix
  • Plugin fix:
    • Limit Login Attempts 
    • Wordfence
• Others
  • Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices
  • Amazing things to do with a Raspberry Pi
  • Meet northern Minnesota’s top celebrity interviewer: Shawn “Franky” Slawson

Upcoming Events…

• MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
• 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
• Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
• MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM
• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch and Tim Elliott (Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson are off this week).
Music: Easy Job from The Dead Rocks. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Overnight Website Challenge
  • Winners Announced
  • Nerdery announces winners of nonprofit website design competition
• TST Media Lands Investment, Rebrands, Makes Acquisition
  • TST Media, Maker of Sport Ngin Software, Secures $6 Million in Series C Financing
  • Sport Ngin Acquires e7sports
• Best Buy
  • Samsung Plans Mini-Stores in Best Buys
• Facebook App forks Android?
  • Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’ 
  • HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on (video)
  • Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication
  • Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
• Live TV Streaming
  • Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV Wins Big in Court
  • Aereo (coming soon to Minneapolis)
• Google
  • Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink
  • Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge ‘national security letters’
• The ‘Vintage’ Web
  • Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?
  • The Wayback Machine 
  • Tim’s first website
  • Steve’s first website ‘The Big Trip‘ to Germany in 1997

Upcoming Events…

• MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
• 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
• Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
• MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center
• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).

Music: Dangerous Things from George Fletcher’s Bourbon Renewal/The Tequila Mockingbirds. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Best Buy
  • Best Buy, RedLaser partner on mobile app strategy
  • Founder Richard Schulze rejoins Best Buy as chairman emeritus
  • Expect Hubert Joly to Lose His Job at Best Buy
  • Losers Return to Best Buy to Oversee Second Death Spiral
• Did the internet break last week?
  • The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
  • That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
  • When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
  • Anatomy of the Apple ID password reset exploit
  • Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security?
• T-Mobile
  • T-Mobile’s UnCarrier event roundup
  • We Did The Math, And It Turns Out The T-Mobile iPhone 5 Could Save You A Bunch Of Money
• Facebook phone?
  • Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android”
  • Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life
• Others
  • Game Developer’s Conference
  • Minnesota Cup Commences Ninth Annual Competition
  • Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur’s Time
  • Is It Real? With New Technology Has Activision Crossed The ‘Uncanny Valley’?
  • SendInc
  • Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
  • Mike Elgan, tech writer

Upcoming Events…

• WordPress MSP, Thursday, March 28 at The Nerdery
• MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
• 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
• Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
• MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center
• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Three-quarters of the Gang take time out of NCAA March Madness viewing to talk about the top news of the past week including Mobile March 2013, Adria Richards’ tough lesson in social media etiquette, the emerging smart watch category, Google Keep and what’s going on at Apple.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Steve Borsch is off this week).

Music: Panacea by bill. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Mobile March 2013 Wrap-up
  • Mobile Fans Have a Big Day at the Farm
  • Speaker slides for Mobile March 2013

• W3i Becomes NativeX
  • W3i Rebrands, Launches Native Ad Platform for App Devs, Adds Trip Hawkins as Senior Advisor 

• Adria Richards – a tough lesson in social media etiquette
  • Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on Twitter 
  • Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences
  • Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
  • A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control
  • PyCon 2013: A play in one act

• Smartwatch Madness!
  • LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device 
  • Google’s Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch
  • Some Pebble smartwatches bricking after shutdown, company replacing faulty units

• Google Keep Takes On More Than Evernote
  • Google launches Evernote rival Keep for the Web, Android 4.0 and above
  • And That, Google, Is How You Lose The Influencers

• Apple News Update
  • How Apple invites facile analysis
  • Horace Dediu’s Critical Path podcast
  • Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM
  • Why did Apple hire Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch?

Upcoming Events…

• WordPress MSP, Thursday, March 28 at The Nerdery
• MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
• 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
• Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
• WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
• Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
• Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
• MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

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Julio Ojeda-Zapata rejoins the Gang to talk about this week’s big news including the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4, Imation’s TDK-branded Bluetooth speaker/wireless charger, the death of Google Reader and more.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week).
Music: Thanks For Nothing by Kito Peters. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Imation in the spotlight with TDK audio line, wireless charging
  • TDK brand lives on, and could save Imation
  • With Qi, wireless device charging may be getting traction

• St. Paul duo launching a social network for home DYIers 

• Samsung Galaxy S4 Announcement:
  • Samsung Galaxy S 4 Beats The Best With 5-inch, 1080p Display, 1.9GHz Processor, Gesture Controls And A Q2 2013 Release
  • I Think Even Samsung Knows That the Galaxy S4 is a Let-Down
  • Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist

• Adiós, Google Reader:
  • Powering Down Google Reader
  • The demise of Google Reader was like a punch in the gut
  • Feedly planning a “seamless” transition from Google Reader to its own Google App Engine back end codenamed Normandy.
  • Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with ‘the best of Google Reader’s features,’ including its API
  • Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)
  • Why Did Google Reader Die?

• Overnight Website Challenge People’s Choice Awards 

• Basis watch 

• Sessions so far for MinneBar 8

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013 - SOLD OUT! (but tickets might be available closer to the event)
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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

Overnight Website Challenge 2013 (photo by Graeme Thickins)

Discussed during the show…

• Overnight Website Challenge 2013
• Graeme’s “nerdcast” 
• Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride “before” website
• Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride “after” website (to be finished before April 1, 2013)
• OWC Facebook page with “People’s Choice” Awards (vote for MCDAR here)
• Steve’s initial thoughts on SmartThings
• Graeme’s photoset at Flickr

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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When the group ‘Outkast’ delivered the line in their song “Hey Ya!” encouraging women on the dance floor to, “shake it like a Polaroid picture“—a reference to an old technique used by some photographers to dry the wet Polaroid film by shaking the picture helped it to dry faster—Polaroid put out a press release asking people NOT to wave around today’s Polaroid pictures since they didn’t need to dry them like that anymore.

We sure don’t have to deal with instant photo prints anymore, heh? On this podcast we talk about today’s Polaroid and lament (a bit) the passing of what one of us described as “the Apple of the 1970s”. But since we have on Julio Ojeda-Zapata, the show is quite upbeat as we talk about the latest-and-greatest technologies and hear from a guy who gets to play with most of them before he writes his articles for TwinCities.com on his tech blog or for the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio-Ojeda Zapata.
Music: My Baby Up and Left Me by The Blues Vultures. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Gang
  • Phil’s in-depth review (& cheesy unboxing video) of his new Pebble watch
  • Julio on the Chromebook Pixel
  • Steve: Google Chrome: Why I Said ‘No Thanks’
• Best Buy
  • Best Buy lays off 400 at Richfield headquarters
  • Oscar Barnes: EgoTime Lemonade
  • Best Buy founder Richard Schulze fails to make buyout offer
  • Schafer: In the end, Schulze had little to offer Best Buy
• Polaroid
  • Polaroid – the company is in Minnetonka, MN
  • Polaroid still surviving, in name and in products
  • Polaroid to make Socialmatic Camera
  • Polaroid instant-cam more of a party animal
• Mobile World Congress 2013
  • Mobile World Congress 2013: best of show
  • Israeli start-up brings gesture tech to iPhones
  • Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’
• Mobile OSes
  • Ubuntu for Phones
  • Firefox OS
  • HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale, and LG doesn’t rule out a phone 
• Copyright Alert System (CAS)
  • What is the CAS?
  • EFF and CAS
  • Will The New ‘Copyright Alert System’ Actually Stop People From Downloading Music and Movies Illegally?
• Others
  • Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS 
  • E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing
  • SmartThings List of Preliminary Compatible Offerings
  • Digiboo’s public digital-video kiosks spread to the U. of M. 
  • E-commerce services firm Digital River has a new CEO
  • Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MOCA)
  • With thrifty, easy Aereo, get your own personal antenna

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Wednesday, March 20th: Minnesota Entrepreneur Kick-Off
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Justin Grammens

Justin, along with Phil Wilson and Linda Cummings, co-founded Mobile March in 2010. In 2012, they welcomed the talents of Mike Bollinger. Justin is a busy guy, having started the Mobile Twin Cities User’s Group, an Android User’s Group, an Arduino platform user’s group and who-knows-what-else. We talk about the upcoming Mobile March TC event on March 21st, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and more. We believe that, in his spare time, Justin spends time with his family and sleeps.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: The Hustle is On by Johnny Nicholas. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Google for Entrepreneurs Day
  • Thoughts from a Google event in Minneapolis
  • The day’s “Hangout” video is here
• Tap the Cash – MN Angel Network
• Teams and Non-Profits Chosen for Overnight Web Challenge
• Is Best Buy Back?
  • Don’t look now, but Best Buy might be coming back
  • Analysts praise Best Buy’s new leaders; company’s stock climbs
• Shobii: Smart frame with a private photo share network
• Raspberry Pi
  • About Raspberry Pi
  • One Million Raspberry Pi Boards Have Been Sold Since Launch
• Google
  • The Chromebook Pixel, for what’s next
  • Google Glass End Of 2013, Price Tag Under $1,500
  • Joshua Topolsky/TheVerge: I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates
  • Google Reportedly In Talks With Warby Parker To Design Stylish Google Glass Frames
  • Conan: Google Glass Is Only Preparing the World For Google ASS
• Steve’s Security Alert of The Week
  • Google Chrome: Why I Said, “No thanks” 

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Changing one’s profile picture anywhere invites Photoshopping abuse and Phil Wilson defaces Steve’s new profile pic. He is, of course, kindly returning the ‘favor’ of Steve basically defacing just about any image of Phil he can find, including a cheesy attempt at humor with this video.

Thankfully we goof off a bit but get in to some serious discussions about tech and innovation moves going on this past week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Spy Smasher by The High Fidelics. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Best Buy Deathwatch
  • Schulze May Ditch Best Buy Takeover, Instead Buy Smaller Stake 
  • Best Buy Is Losing Its Best Chance of Survival: Jeff Macke
  • Best Buy to make internet price matching permanent to prevent ‘showrooming’
• Steve’s Security Alert of The Week
  • Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack
• Mobile News Roundup
  • HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices
  • No “Plan B” for Microsoft’s mobile ambitions: CFO
  • Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake
  • Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012
• Automobiles
  • Before He Died, Steve Jobs Said He Wanted Apple To Make A Car
  • The Tesla Nightmare Shows Why Today’s All-Electric Cars Are (Basically) Dead On Arrival
  • Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway
  • That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t 
• Posterous
  • Posterous shuttering for good on April 30th
  • Garry Tan and Brett Gibson are setting up Posthaven
  • List of Posterous alternatives is here
  • Migrate from Posterous to Tumblr (or to WordPress)
• Apple
  • Now we know why Apple was leaking iWatch rumors: Samsung’s releasing one
  • Could Apple Be Working On The ‘iBank’?
• OMG! Meteors!
  • Meteor Videos from Russia 
  • While you were working: An asteroid just flew by…

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
• Wednesday, February 20th: Tap the Cash – MN Angel Network (for accredited investors; startups can apply)
• Wednesday, February 20th: MIMA: “The Future of Blogging” with Rick Webb/Tumblr
• Thursday, February 21st: Tie MN Startup Showcase Evening, 6:30-8:45pm
• Saturday, February 23rd: Twin Cities Open Data Day and Code Across America Hackathon
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Tuesday, March 5th: The Exploding Toolbox: What you Need and Why, Business Marketing Association
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Super Ant Monster by The Dead Rocks. From the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Java Meetup 612 (JMU612) on Twitter
• Digital River swings to 4Q loss on goodwill charge, will return to core services 
• Best Buy
  • Best Buy’s Joly to keynote MHTA Spring Conference
  • Amy Poehler tries to seduce Best Buy boys in Super Bowl
• Forbes Ranks Code 42 #53 “Most Promising”
• Adobe Issues Emergency Flash Update for Attacks on Windows, Mac Users
  • Adobe Flash Player direct download 
• Ouya
  • Ouya enters the console war, launching in June
  • Ouya founder promises new $99 console every year
• Google Updates Hangouts (bandwidth control & audio)
• WebRTC ‘conversation’ between Chrome and Firefox (about WebRTC)
• Ex-Apple designer explains why it’s just a matter of time for the iWatch
• FreedomPop Plans ‘LTE Clip’ To Give Free LTE To iPad, Android Tablets

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
• Thursday, February 21st: Tie MN Startup Showcase Evening, 6:30-8:45pm
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, Best Buy HQ
• Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Family Blues by The Damned & Dirty. Available thru Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Twitter Hack
  • Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised
  • Twitter hack: how to find out if you’re affected, and what to do
• Super Bowl Ads
  • Best Buy teases Amy Poehler-led Super Bowl ad
  • WATCH: The Best 2013 Super Bowl Ads All In One Video
• Social Commerce
  • eBay’s GSI Commerce Selects 8th Bridge to Drive Social Commerce
  • Heroic
• MobileRealtyApps expands at Grain Exchange, ramps up hiring and their website
• RIM becomes BlackBerry; Too Little, Too Late?
  • Inside BlackBerry’s last stand
  • BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support?
• Bill Gates’ annual letter
• Apple
  • HBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn’t Everything Coming to Apple TV?
    • Boxee
  • A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge
  • Apple Core Rot
  • Apple to End Mac Pro Sales in Europe — For the Time Being
• QFOlabs
• Password Managers
  • 1Password
  • LastPass
• Groundhog Day 2013: Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Spring Is Coming! (the movie)
• NameCheap

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Thursday, February 7th: JMU16 – Podcasting, power and influence panel
• Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, location TBD
• Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

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Dan Atkins

Our guest on this podcast, data scientist Dan Atkins, co-founded and jointly runs Minneanalytics the #BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics event and others as well as his own firm, Capsaicin, LLC.

As always, the Gang also catches up on the hottest stories this past week affecting us all in technology and Minnesota.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Second Time Around by Maria Daines. Available thru Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Best Buy Deathwatch
  • Best Buy coupon drops some fine print, to customers’ glee 
  • Can Amy Poehler save Best Buy?
• Apple Earnings Reaction
  • Apple’s Earnings Disappoint 
  • Heady Returns, but Apple Finds Its Stock Falling
  • The Apple paradox
  • The Nerdery lays off 24 in restructuring
• CyberSecurity
  • Homeland Security’s Napolitano invokes 9/11 to push for CISPA 2.0
  • Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Exposure, Announced On Hacked Gov Site
  • Aaron Swartz at Wikipedia
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center
  • NSA warrantless surveillance controversy 
  • Warrantless searches in the United States
  • Google’s ECPA report reveals the extent of the FBI’s warrantless email snooping 
• Big Data
  • Big Data: Overhyped And Overpaid?
  • Bright Planet (Sioux Falls, SD firm at BigDataMN event)
• Other
  • Twitter introduces Vine for iOS, an app for sharing six second looping videos on the service
  • France Shuns ‘Hashtag,’ Introduces New Twitter Term, ‘Mot-Dièse’ (moe-dee-ez )
  • 7 Biggest Rip-Offs in Tech Retail
    
  • Vinepeek

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Fri/Sun January 25-27: Global Game Jam at The Nerdery (map)
• Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, location TBD

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The Gang has met and connected with hundreds of people who listen to this show. We’ve been pleased with the tens of thousands of downloads and listens which proves that the learning connections we, and especially our listeners, have made by listening make our effort to podcast weekly incredibly worthwhile and fun.

Thank you to our listeners, to the guests we’ve had on, and for the gracious access to events and venues we’ve been provided with so we can cover them and bring even more value to you!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Are You Losing Your Mind? by Buddy Guy. Brought to us by Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• It’s our 200th show!
  • Here is Podcast #1, June 22, 2008
  • AllThingsD: Six Podcasting Predictions for 2013
  • Marketing At The Speed of Sound
• Around MN:
  • RadioShack Ends Mobile Pact With Target Stores 
  • SpiceApps releases alpha of BrowserTap
• Leap Motion:
  • Leap Motion Teams Up With Best Buy
  • Leap Motion
• University of Minnesota discussion:
  • University of Minnesota awarded $28 million grant
  • U of MN Spintronics site
  • What is Spintronics?
  • What is Graphene?
  • U of MN Inventing Tomorrow magazine
  • What is Zigbee?
    • TI’s ZigBee solutions
  • Minnesota’s NVE Corp “Leaders in Practical Spintronics”
• Apple:
  • How Apple Is Destroying Android From The Inside Out
  • Why did Apple close at exactly $500 today?
• Breakout Minnesota companies?
  • JAMF
  • Code42
  • SmartThings
  • CoCoMSP
• Twitter:
  • Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax: Twitter Runs Wild With Jokes and Teoing Memes
  • News flash for the media: You can’t sell photos grabbed from Twitter
  • FAQs about Twitter Verified Accounts

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics (agenda)
• Thursday, January 24th: Wordpress MSP, The Nerdery (map)
• Fri/Sun January 25-27: Global Game Jam at The Nerdery (map)
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
• Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, location TBD

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Lois Mae Boogie by Doc MistaBluesman Quinn. Brought to us by Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• CES:
  • The Apple economy dominates CES 2013, but Samsung isn’t far behind
  • Canopy’s Sensus touch-enabled iPhone case offers ten extra points of input
  • Sensus Touch-Sensitive iPhone Case Rewrites Rules On Smartphone Functionality
  • Hands On With Pebble, the Internet’s Favorite Smart Watch
  • SmartThings Gambles On The Connected Home In Vegas
  • Graeme’s Interview of UnitedHeathcare Group’s Head of Innovation
    • UnitedHealthcare Launches Global Competition
  • Soundmatters debuts superslim FoxL Dash 7 Bluetooth speaker
  • Almond+
  • Qualcomm’s insane CES 2013 keynote in pictures and tweets
  • 3M debuts gigantic 84-inch multitouch table with 40-point input
  • Polaroid’s Jelly Bean Tablets Could Give Google a Run for Its Money
  • At CES, the 4K TV sets arrive: Boom … or bust?
• Best Buy related:
  • Best Buy stock leaps 16% on holiday-season results
  •  After 13 Years At Best Buy, Barry Judge Has Joined LivingSocial As Its CMO
• BIG Android Phones:
  • Huawei’s monster phone
  • Yota Phone
• Internet of Things:
  • What is the Internet of Things?
  • The ‘Internet of Things’ gets a consortium
    • Internet of Things Consortium website
• Apple:
  • Next-Generation iPad and iPad Mini Rumored for March Launch
  • Apple is Done and Surface Tablet is Cool, According to Teens
• Chorus (proprietary content management system by Vox Media)

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, January 16th: Interactive Innovation in Highly Regulated Industries
• Wednesday, January 16th: Social Communities: Moving Customers from Activity to Revenue
• Thursday, January 17th: SMBMSP#53: Social Media & Breaking News, Featuring ABC News Producer Dennis Powell
• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Thursday, January 24th: Wordpress MSP, The Nerdery
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

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Ray Kurzweil

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Hey Miss Bessie by Charles Musselwhite. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Imation buys data company Nexsan
• Fair Isaac moving its HQ back to California
• Accelerate MSP: Not too proud to ask for cash for start-ups
• Canopy’s Sensus heading to CES
• Minnesota startups join hot iPhone accessory market – Twig Cases
• Polaroid to launch Fotobar stores designed to print photos from our smartphones
  • Fotobar website
• Apple to play wearable computer game, says analyst 
• Google makes Gmail sync harder on rival platforms by dropping Exchange ActiveSync for consumers
• Canonical unveils Ubuntu phone OS that doubles as a “full PC” 
• Pebble will finally unveil its Kickstarter-darling smartwatch at CES
• GameStick: The Most Portable TV Games Console Ever Created 
• Welcome to the new MySpace 
• Gang Mentality: The Internet of Things (IoT)
  • SmartThings
  • The Internet of Things needs an Open Infrastructure
• Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• Adobe Edge

Upcoming Events…

• Wednesday, January 16th: Social Communities: Moving Customers from Activity to Revenue
• Thursday, January 17th: SMBMSP#53: Social Media & Breaking News, Featuring ABC News Producer Dennis Powell
• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Thursday, January 24th: Wordpress MSP, The Nerdery
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Lights are On But Nobody’s Home by Albert Collins. Brought to us by Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Last year’s predictions show: Minnov8 Gang 150
• “Pagemaker for HTML5″ likely from Adobe (see, “Adobe Edge“)
• AppleTV Rumors 
• Randi Zuckerberg’s “inadvertent photo release”
• Wearable technology:
  • Definition on Wikipedia
  • Google Glass
  • Pebble Watch 
• Android malware
• “Internet of Things” and Intel’s “Moore’s Law Radio“
• Asus, Acer & others to debut cheap Android tablets at CES
• Apple will have blowout earnings in late January
• Best Buy will go private and begin divesting massive amounts of real estate. Of note:
  • Big Box retail downtrending
  • Malls not doing well
• The crowdfunding promise of the Jobs Act
• The Great California Exodus
• Context-aware technologies
• Chromebook
• How Steve Ballmer could exit Microsoft gracefully
• Internet Radio Royalty reform? 

Upcoming Events…

• Saturday, January 5th: DaVinci Fest, Stillwater High School
• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Thursday, January 24th: Wordpress MSP, The Nerdery
• Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

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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.

Discussed during the show…

• Social Media Breakfast MSP #52 Panel
• VC: New group to fund up to 10 Twin Cities startups a year
• Best Buy Deathwatch:
  • In A Stunning Twist, Best Buy’s Digital Savior Has Suddenly Resigned
  • Best Buy Has Lost The ‘Single Most Important Executive In The Entire Company’
  • ‘Insider’ blog post: Too Much Too Soon 
• Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M
• Instagram:
  • What Instagram’s New Terms of Service Mean for You
  • No, Instagram can’t sell your photos
  • Flickr is Going Free for Three Months to Entice Instagram Deserters
• ThisWeekIn: Jason Calacanis Says He Will Shut Down Podcast Network
• Forrester: 84% Of U.S. Adults Now Use The Web Daily…
• Kim Garretson’s links:
  • Linguastat (e.g., TST Media use here)
  • PublishThis
    • Rafat Ali’s Skift
    • AOL Sporting News
  • Quantifind
• Gartner: 2013: The Year Ahead in Digital Commerce

Upcoming Events…

• Saturday, January 5th: DaVinci Fest, Stillwater High School
• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
  • More breakout speakers sought – contact Dan Atkins: dan(at)dananalytics(dot)net
• Friday, December 21st: SMBMSP #52, Jumping Tracks – Tales of Radical Career Shifts
• Monday, January 21, BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Sat/Sun March 2-3: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

The Gang discusses several stories but started off with Minnedemo (here is a list of who presented), the MIMA Holiday Party and the W3i Minnesota Tech Holiday Bash.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Waiting by Freeky Clean brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Imation getting into cloud data backup services
• Schulze is expected to make his bid for Best Buy this week
• 8thBridge 2nd Annual Social Commerce Study
• Google Maps for iPhone is here
• First OS X fake installer malware spotted 
• Registration Now Open for Mobile March 2013 
• An Awesome Guy Made a Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun
  • The Burrito Bomber
• Android:
  • Google Play and Amazon’s Android Store
  • Lookout Security & Antivirus
  • Google’s Schmidt: Android is ‘winning that war’ with Apple 
• Samsung’s chief strategy officer admits to using Apple’s iPhone, iPad & Mac at home (also W3i Board Chair)
• Intel’s Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact 
• $20 Android tablet by Datawind
  • Ubislate (the 7Ci is $82.99 U.S. with free shipping if purchased online)

Upcoming Events…

• Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics Forum – BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics (500 already registered!)
  • More breakout speakers sought – contact Dan Atkins: dan(at)dananalytics(dot)net
• Friday, December 21st: SMBMSP #52, Jumping Tracks – Tales of Radical Career Shifts
• Monday, January 21, BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Sat/Sun March 2-3: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: The One by The Woodshedders brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show…

• SmartThings Announces $3M Seed Round
• Spark update: Need another $140k in the next 6 days!
  • Xmas light demo online (addictive)
• MinneDemo presenters announced
• TechForward Wins $27M In Lawsuit Against Best Buy Over Stolen Trade Secrets
• 3M launches e-book lending service at metro libraries
• T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies
• Apple investing ‘over $100M’ to bring back some Mac production to the US in 2013
• Mary Meeker’s 2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update
• iDigi
• Control4
• Truphone

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
• Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference
• Monday, December 10th: SMBMSP‘s Mobile Tech Holiday Social
• Monday, December 10th: Carlson School SOBACO Speaker Series
• Tuesday, December 11th: Minnedemo
• Wednesday, December 12th: MIMA Holiday Party
• Thursday, December 13th: W3i’s 2nd Annual Minnesota Tech Holiday Bash
• Friday, December 21st: SMBMSP #52, “Jumping Tracks – Tales of Radical Career Shifts”
• Monday, January 21, BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
• Sat/Sun March 2-3: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Natural Man by Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Spark:
  • Spark and SmartThings work together!
  • Spark’s “Smart Lights” Product Lets People Control Lights With a Smartphone
• Apple:
  • iTunes 11 finally available for download
  • Merrill Lynch: T-Mobile USA may get the iPhone next week
• Tim’s gift ideas:
  • Any ‘Nexus’
  • SwiftKey 3 Tablet
  • Pad and Quill cases
• Graeme’s gift ideas:
  • Kohler wireless Bluetooth speaker showerhead
  • AR.Drone 2.0 and QFO quadcopter  (it’s a tie)
  • Orbotix “Sphero” robotic ball
• Phil’s gift ideas:
  • Spark Sockets
  • Macbook Pro 13” (Retina Display)
  • Arduino
  • PlugBug
• Steve’s gift ideas:
  • Roku boxes ($50-$100)
  • Etsy handmade iPad cases
  • VERY good prices on iPad/Samsung/Amazon cases
  • ThinkGeek store
• Julio’s Holiday Tech Picks 
• Other mentions:
  • Nokia Lumia 822 at Verizon
  • Staples Easy 3D
  • Shapeways
  • Android app: Lookout Security & Antivirus

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
• Wednesday, December 5th: Startup Pitch Night (streaming here too!)
• Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference
• Tuesday, December 11th: Minnedemo (sold out)
• Thursday, December 13th: 2nd Annual Minnesota Tech Holiday Bash
• Sat/Sun March 2-3: Midwest PHP Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: Someone to Talk To by Robin Banks brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

This Week’s Stories…

• The momentum continues as DoDrinks wins MobDemo
• Spark:
  • Kickstarter page: Upgrade your lights with Wi-Fi and apps
  • Spark Demo (tweet to see it)
  • Spark’s site
  • Spark ties with Twine
  • Philips Hue 
• Best Buy:
  • Best Buy CEO Launches Turnaround Strategy
  • Best Buy Aims for 15% Return on Capital in Joly Turnaround 
  • Best Buy’s Joly looking into buying familiar brands 
• Google:
  • Google wants to be a wireless carrier?
  • Native Google Maps app for iOS w/Turn-by-turn navigation
• Black Friday
  • Amazon Black Friday deals early
  • Stores Bring Black Friday to the Web
• Apple’s eMate 300
• Modern Family “Mistery Date”
• Apple HDTV?
• LG May Keep WebOS Alive w/New SmartTV
• Skype Offers

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
• Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge
• Tuesday, November 27th: WordPress MSP at the Nerdery
• Thursday, November 29th: Twin Cities Manufacturing Tour (SOLD OUT)
• Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013 – Details to come.

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Traveling Blues by Bo Lozoff brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
Image: “Toaster image” used for composite is courtesy PixelPlacebo under a Creative Commons license.

This week’s stories…

• Nifty Gifter wins Start-up Weekend 4
• Schulze bid for Best Buy expected later, and lower 
• Microsoft:
  • Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed 
  • Has Microsoft missed its chance with Office on mobile?
• Yes, Apple will approve Google Maps for iOS
• W3i:
  • FlipToast on Windows 8
    • Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s Pioneer Press story
  • CNET on Windows 8 & FlipToast is first app 
  • W3i’s New Space at Grain Exchange
  • W3i’s Partnership with Imangi Studio’s Temple Run is massive success
  • W3i sponsoring a Holiday Bash Mixer on December 13th
  • W3i Careers 
• Unity Game Tool 
• Robert Stephens on This Week in Google (TWiG)
• WebRTC
• Architecture Technology Corp in Eden Prairie
• Two Minnesota startups will be pitching at Defragcon and Blurcon in Denver next week:
  • QFO Labs (their Kickstarter project (ends 11/13/12)
  • Canopy and product site here  (launching at CES Jan 2013)
• Philips Hue

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
• Friday, November 9th: Free Workshop on Social Media Analytics (SOBACO, U of M Carlson School), 3:00-4:30pm
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
  • USE DISCOUNT CODE minnoV8pals (yes, it is cAsE sEnsiTivE)
• Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge
• Tuesday, November 27th: WordPress MSP at the Nerdery
• Thursday, November 29th: Twin Cities Manufacturing Tour
• Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference
• Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013 – Details to come.

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: Without You by Black Lab brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

This week’s stories…

• MHTA Announces 2012 Tekne Awards
• Digital River CEO Ronning steps down
  • With founder Ronning gone, Digital River outlines next steps 
• IT Firm The Nerdery Aims to Hire 100 in 100 Days 
• Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
• Apple:
  • Apple’s iPad Mini Launch Draws Smaller Crowds Than Previous Product Debuts
  • Five reasons Apple has peaked—for real, this time
  • CEO Cook Remakes Apple for Post-Jobs Era, Forstall Exits
• Microsoft Surface review
• PhoneGap
• Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Upcoming Events…

• Weekly: TechMasters – Toastmasters for Techies
• November 2-4: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
  • USE DISCOUNT CODE minnoV8pals (yes, it is cAsE sEnsiTivE)
• Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge
• Tuesday, November 27th: WordPress MSP at the Nerdery
• Sat-Tue, December 8-11: TIES 2012 Education Technology Conference

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Social Media Breakfast in Minneapolis/St. Paul is the largest in the nation. Begun by Rick Mahn and now run by Mykl Roventine and team (history and people here) this 50th breakfast is quite a milestone…and both Rick and Mykl still have their teeth!

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

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Thursday, Nov 1st: TEKNE Awards
• Thursday, Nov 1st MNPHP Event
• Fri/Sat, Nov 2nd-3rd: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
  • USE DISCOUNT CODE minnoV8pals (yes, it is cAsE sEnsiTivE)
• Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tell Me What to Do by Boo Boo Davis brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• SmartThings wins Spark of Genius start-up contest at Dublin Web Summit
• Kickstarter:
  • SmartThings on Kickstarter
  • Pebble Watch on Kickstarter
  • What Happens When Kickstarters Fail?
• Coursera:
  • Minnesota eases restrictions on online education following Internet dust-up
  • Minnesota Bans Stanford’s Unauthorized Free Online Education
  • Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
• Tablets:
  • Best Buy joins Android tablet PC crowd with Insignia Flex
  • Apple tablet, Amazon tablet, Microsoft tablet … meet Best Buy tablet
  • Microsoft Hopes $499 Starting Price for Surface Will Click With Consumers
    • Microsoft Surface ad
    • Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 Is ‘the End of Windows’
• Here’s Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years
• News:
  • Circa’s New iOS App Will Change The Way You Consume News
  • Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles — what’s wrong and right about that (by Sarah Lacy)
  • Instapaper creator Marco Arment launches The Magazine, a different kind of periodical for Apple’s Newsstand
  • News360 and Flipboard
• Ruby on Rails
• Dr. Tae on Skateboarding for Education
• Robert Scoble & Shel Israel book ‘Age of Context’ draft introduction

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Tue/Wed/Thur Oct 23-25: JAMF Software’s “JAMF Nation User Conference”
• Saturday, Oct 20th: ProductCamp Minnesota 4
• Thursday, Oct 25th: MSP WordPress
• Friday, Oct 26th: SMBMSP #50 (bacon and music!)
• Thursday, Nov 1st: TEKNE Awards
• Thursday, Nov 1st MNPHP Event
• Fri/Sat, Nov 2nd-3rd: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
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• Fri/Sat Nov 16-17: Codeslingers Challenge

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The Gang talks about the MIMA Summit where we were somewhat surprised to learn keynote speaker and former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki is “enchanted” by Android (but still loves his Macs). We also mention MinneDemo Rochester and Sprint’s new suitor before talking about new and rumored Apple products.

Hosts: Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Steve Borsch is off this week).
Music: Are We There Yet? by Hadrians Union brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• MIMA Summit live blog
• Free download of Guy Kawasaki’s ‘Macintosh Way’ book
• Minnedemo Rochester live stream (update: Ben Edwards tells us about 130 showed up, 30 from the Twin Cities)
• Best Buy Plays Web Hardball 
• Graeme gets a Best Buy blogger pitch
• Softbank in Advanced Talks to Acquire Sprint Nextel 
• Apple ships iPod Touch and iPod Nano:
  • Apple iPod nano review (2012) 
  • Apple iPod touch review (2012)
• iPad mini rumor round-up:
  • iPad mini: rounding up the rumors
  • Phantom iPad Mini ‘delayed’ 
  • Apple Likely to Unveil “iPad Mini” at October 23 Event 

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Saturday, October 13: WordUp Minneapolis 2012, Sponsored by MSP WordPress
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.
• ProductCamp Minnesota 4, October 20th, 8:00am – 5:00pm, UST Minneapolis
• Fri/Sat, Nov 2nd-3rd: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Some royalty-free music Borsch bought and everyone hates.

Discussed during the show…

• Best Buy
  • Best Buy Hires Top Global Technology Talent 
  • Best Buy founder presses on with buyout plan
• Target …bets on QR codes, exclusive toys this holiday
• T-Mobile, MetroPCS unite to battle larger rivals
  • Sprint may buy them both…
  • What is an MVNO?
• Steve Jobs Tributes
  • Apple remembers Steve Jobs on anniversary of his passing
  • Untold Stories About Steve Jobs: Friends and Colleagues Share Their Memories

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Friday, October 5th, 5:00-6:15 pm: SOBACO (new university-wide Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative) at UofMN
• Friday, October 5th, 5:00-6:15 pm: The Economics of Spam at UofMN
• Wednesday, October 10th: MIMA Summit Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Thursday, October 11th: MinneDemo Rochester 2012 (sold out)
• Saturday, October 13: WordUp Minneapolis 2012, Sponsored by MSP WordPress
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.
• Fri/Sat, Nov 2nd-3rd: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)

Discussed during the show…

• The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds 
• Feedburner Alternatives:
  • Replace Feedburner’s subscriber count with this Bash script
  • FeedBlitz
  • FeedCat
  • Nourish
• Yahoo Pipes
• GetListed.org Local University search resources.
• MN Bloggers Conference
  • Bring Me The News
    • News360
• Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Maps mea culpa
• SmartThings raises $1.2 million on Kickstarter 

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Wednesday, October 3rd: MHTA Open House 4:30 – 7:00 pm, Mpls Grain Exchange
• Friday, October 5th, 5:00-6:15 pm: The Economics of Spam at UofMN
• Wednesday, October 10th: MIMA Summit Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Saturday, October 13: WordUp Minneapolis 2012, Sponsored by MSP WordPress
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.
• Fri/Sat, Nov 2nd-3rd: Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Minneapolis
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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata.

Discussed during the show…

• Apple
  • iPhone 5 breaks Apple and AT&T sales records in ‘most successful iPhone launch ever’
  • Engadget’s iPhone 5 review 
  • The iPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble?
  • iPhone 5 Teardown
  • The 10 Best Things About iOS 6 
  • Wrong turn: Apple’s buggy iOS 6 maps lead to widespread complaints
  • iOS 6 Maps vs iOS 5 Maps vs Android Maps
  • OpenBox, A Developer For Apple iPhoto’s OpenStreetMap, Gets $575K From The Knight Foundation
  • Julio: Target, Valleyfair to employ Apple’s Passbook for coupons and tickets
•  Kindle/Lumia
  • Following Target, Walmart stops selling Kindles
  • Amazon to let Kindle Fire HD buyers turn off ads
• MHTA‘s Tekne Award Finalists
• Google
  • Google has discontinued numerous products and services
  • Google Nexus 7
• Tweetbot

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Saturday, Sept 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference at Allina Health HQ in Minneapolis
• Tuesday, Sept 25th: Technology Breakthroughs That Will Drive Social Innovation at Humphrey School of Public Affairs
• Thursday, Sept 27th: WordPress MSP, September 27th, 7pm, The Nerdery, Bloomington
• Friday, Sept 28th: MNSearch Presents: Local University
• Friday, Sept 28th: SMBMSP Tech Trends & Predictions with Julio Ojeda-Zapata
• Wednesday, October 3rd: MHTA Open House 4:30 – 7:00 pm, Minneapolis Grain Exchange
• Friday, October 5th, 5:00-6:15 pm: “The Economics of Spam,” Justin Rao, Microsoft Research economist,
  sponsored by U of M Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative (email sobaco@umn.edu to register)
• Wednesday, October 10th: MIMA Summit Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s 26th Annual “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Mineapolis USE DISCOUNT CODE minnoV8pals (yes, it is cAsE sEnsiTivE)

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Mobile is once again the driving theme behind the show due, in no small part, to the release of the Apple iPhone 5 this week. Our guest is Whit Schrader, Strategic IT Architect at MentorMate, who is known as “one part data scientist, two parts entrepreneur” as he was professionally trained as a neuroscientist, conducted human brain imaging research at Vanderbilt before starting his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Sweet Mother Blues by Mean Gene Kelton & The Die Hards brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• TDS HMS Launches ReliaCloud™ in Minnesota
• Local App-Development Contest to Award $25K Prize 
• Best Buy Takes on RadioShack in Mobile Strip-Mall Push and Best Buy moves 2,000 to work the stores’ sales floor
• Apple:
  • Apple’s iPhone 5 bigger, faster but lacks “wow” 
  • Did Apple’s underwhelming iPhone 5 announcement open the door for Windows Phone 8? 
  • The iPhone 5 Is Completely Amazing and Utterly Boring
  • Boring…but people are buying like mad: Apple’s iPhone 5 Pre-order Shipping Estimates Slip to Two Weeks
  • New iPods, iTunes Round Out Apple Announcement 
  • Apple’s iPod touch pricing doesn’t leave space for the iPad mini 
  • Apple’s Had Two Cable Changes In A Decade. Guess How Many Samsung Has Had?
  • Wal-Mart to Offer Apple’s iPhone Pre-Orders for First Time
• Pew Internet’s Smartphone Ownership Update: September 2012 
• DoxOut Turns Any Tablet Or Smartphone Into A Google Docs PC 
• Reflection App
• The Verge 

Upcoming Events…

• Every Tuesday: TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech pros
• Saturday, Sept 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference at Allina Health HQ in Minneapolis
• Thursday, Sept 27th: WordPress MSP, September 27th, 7pm, The Nerdery, Bloomington
• Friday, Sept 28th: MNSearch Presents: Local University
• Friday, Sept 28th: Technology Breakthroughs that will Drive Social Innovation UofMN
• Wednesday, October 3rd: MHTA Open House 4:30 – 7:00pm, Minneapolis Grain Exchange
• Wednesday, October 10th: MIMA Summit Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s 26th Annual “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.
• Tue/Wed, November 13-14: MobCon, Hilton Downtown Mineapolis

photo credit: aye_shamus via photo pin cc

Read Graeme Thickins’ post here about Tom and Dan speaking on “Indie Capitalism & Design Entrepreneurship” for the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) “Visiting Artist Lecture” series.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Mandolin Boogie by Johnny Nicholas from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• PreciouStatus wins the 2012 Minnesota Cup Grand Prize. See all 2012 Division Winners, Runnerups & Honorable Mentions here
• Kindle Fire
  • Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD family: The highs and lows you need to know
  • Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD, Paperwhite e-reader, and 2012 Kindle lineup: the full story 
• Nokia’s new Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8: the full story 
• Motorola sharpens its RAZR: Motorola’s RAZR reboot: three new phones, new Google integration
• Bring Me The News – Rick Kupchella’s aggregation adventure
• Meet Apple’s Favorite Blogger
• Scott Olson, serial entrepreneur (Rollerblade, Rowbike, Skyride)
• DEMOfall conference, Oct 1-3, Santa Clara (where Ray Kurzweil will launch his new book on stage)

Upcoming Events…

• TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities, dedicated to helping technology professionals improve their skills
• Thursday, Sept 13th: Minnesota Developer’s Conference 
• Saturday, Sept 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference at Allina Health HQ in Minneapolis
• Thursday, Sept 27th: WordPress MSP, September 27th, 7pm, The Nerdery, Bloomington
• Friday, Sept 28th: MNSearch Presents: Local University
• Friday, Sept 28th: Technology Breakthroughs that will Drive Social Innovation UofMN Humphrey School
• Wednesday, October 10th: MIMA Summit Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s 26th Annual “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Prisoner by Cari Morin from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Internet Cat Video Film Festival – Walker Art Center
• YouTube Video: Screaming at Trucks and Trains
• Minnesota Cup Winners Announced
  • PreciouStatus wins the 2012 Minnesota Cup High Tech Division
  • Tuloko Wins MN Cup’s Social Entrepreneur Division 
  • That was quick… PreciouStatus raises $1.2M
• Code 42 Launches Sydney Subsidiary, Eyes More Int’l Growth
  • Brian Bell named President/COO of Code42
• SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter – $512k with 3 weeks to go
• Apple-Samsung Verdict: Will It Hinder Innovation?
  • A Verdict That Alters an Industry 
  • Near-total victory for Apple stifles phone, tablet design 
  • Google, Apple CEOs in secret talks on patent issues
  • Samsung will sue Apple immediately if it releases an LTE device
• Pixate

Upcoming Events…

• TechMasters - a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities, dedicated to helping technology professionals improve their skills
• Thursday, Sept 6th, 11:30 am: Club Entrepreneur, Minneapolis Club
• Thursday, Sept 6th, 5:00 pm: Minnesota Cup Final Awards Reception & Program
• Thursday, Sept 13th: Minnesota Developer’s Conference 
• Saturday, Sept 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference at Allina Health HQ in Minneapolis
• Thursday, Sept 27th: WordPress MSP, September 27th, 7pm, The Nerdery, Bloomington
• Thursday, October 11th: The Collaborative’s 26th Annual “Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference”
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Have to be Honest by Kevin Sanson & brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Explore Minnesota … which was put on by Social Media Explorer
• Best Buy:
  • Best Buy names new CEO: Hubert Joly, ex-CEO of Carlson Cos. 
  • Best Buy 2Q profit drops 90 pct, misses estimates
  • Best Buy — In Turmoil — Will it Survive?
  • Best Buy Said To Resume Schulze Talks On Due Diligence 
  • What Every CEO Can Learn From Best Buy’s (Continued) Branding Mistakes 
• SmartThings: Kickstarter campaign
  • Ben Edwards interview

Upcoming Events…

• TechMasters – a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities, dedicated to helping technology professionals improve their skills
• Thursday, Sept 6th, 11:30 am: Club Entrepreneur, Minneapolis Club
• Thursday, Sept 6th, 5:00 pm: Minnesota Cup Final Awards Reception & Program
• Thursday, Sept 13th: Minnesota Developer’s Conference 
• Saturday, Sept 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference at Allina Health HQ in Minneapolis
• Thursday, Sept 27th: WordPress MSP, September 27th, 7pm, The Nerdery, Bloomington
• Fri/Sat, Oct 19-20: She’s Geeky Twin Cities, Science Museum of MN, Register here.

Our guest this week is Jason Falls (LinkedIn; website; learning site), an author, keynote speaker and CEO. He continues to be a name that surfaces at or near the top of conversations and lists of thought leaders and top thinkers in the emerging world of social media marketing. Jason is keynoting Explore Minneapolis next week  (Use code ‘MINNOV8′ for a $200 discount on tickets) and, if you have any interest in social media marketing or its effective use, this is a must-attend event.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: Train by Philip Peters & brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Report from the Datavenu event
• Microsoft reportedly settles on ‘Windows 8′ as replacement for ‘Metro’
• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
• NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars and Steve’s post: We Just *Cannot* Be Alone
• The benefits of working at Google continue after death
• Howard Schultz Explains How Square Will Caffeinate Starbucks
  • Julio Ojeda-Zapata on Tech News Today

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Thurs/Fri, August 16th & 17th: Explore Minneapolis, Aug 16-17  (Use code ‘MINNOV8′ for $200 discount on tickets)
• Friday, August 24th: SMBMSP Social Media & Content Marketing with Lee Odden
• Thursday, September 13th: Minnesota Developer’s Conference
• Saturday, September 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference

The shifts in media and social media continue unabated, all while technology software and hardware companies jockey for position on who will be the core technology provider to we media consumer and users. Especially interesting was our discussion before the podcast began where Phil revealed the photo you see above (he’s heading down to Lacrosse, WI next week to attend a radio station reunion where he worked in his twenties). Feel free to tease him.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week)
Music: Remember by Bob Kirkpatrick from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• High Tech Sensors on 35W
• Ben Edwards’ SmartThings
• Media:
  • Are social media sites enhancing the Olympics, or ruining it?
  • The Daily lays off a third of their staff
  • StarTribune Gains a Majority Owner
• Google:
  • Google buys Wildfire
  • Rumor: Google Puts A Hold On New Google+ Acquisitions
• Microsoft:
  • Hotmail becomes Outlook.com…becomes much cooler, right? 
  • The @outlook.com email addresses Microsoft forgot to reserve
  • Microsoft now avoiding the word Metro.
• Local News:
  • Bring Me The News & BringMeTheNews Raises $3M
  • Paul Douglas’ WeatherNation
  • New Kidblog Facebook Page – Like ‘em!
• Doc Searls & Phil Windley:
  • Book: “The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge” by Doc Searls
  • Wall Street Journal: “The Customer as a God” by Doc Searls
  • Book: The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
• Thursday, August 9th: Field Nation workshop
• Saturday, September 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Phil Wilson is off)
Music: Summer City Blues by Freeky Cleen, by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• MinneDemo (and Luke Francl moving to San Francisco)
• Zencoder acquired by Brightcove
• The Twins unveil iPhone game for Target Field use only 
• Apple:
  • OS X Mountain Lion released
  • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
  • Do a Mountain Lion clean install for that Pine-Sol smell
  • Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD
  • Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter
  • Compatible Apps at Roaring Apps
• Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak’s Patents
• Nexus 7
• ‘Connected Watches’:
  • The Pebble
  • MetaWatch introduces Strata smartwatch on Kickstarter: ‘iOS 6 made it possible’
• Kickstarter projects in Minneapolis (and other cities in Minnesota)
• Funder’s Club
• WSJ Olympics live blog
• indiegogo

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
• Thursday, August 9th: Field Nation workshop
• Saturday, September 22nd: Minnesota Bloggers Conference

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week)
Music: Heartless by Michael Burks from the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• MN Cup pitch event at Digital River (11 startups participated)
• MIMA event with Pandora
• Marissa Mayer
  • Marissa Mayer takes Yahoo-Marissa Mayer’s First Memo to Yahoos
  • Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Salary: $1 Million Base, Up To $60 Million In Stock And Bonuses
  • Marissa’s local connections (Graeme’s post)
• Microsoft
  • Windows 8 Launch is set for October 26, 2012
  • Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue
  • Don’t Believe the Doomsayers: Microsoft’s Q4 Results Are Good News
  • FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging
  • Microsoft patent allows for web-based spying technology
• High Tech Headstones. Live forever with a QR code the brainchild of a Twin Cities-based Katzman Monument
• App.Net to take on Twitter? Announcing an audacious proposal (Dalton Caldwell blog)
  • App.net ‘Kickstarter-like” project 
• Size of the baby boomer population
• Hootsuite’s Google+ Pages integration
• Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy
• Minneapolis’ 311 app

Upcoming Events

• Energizing Open Innovation: Education, Business and Government, Wednesday, July 25th: UofMN Humphrey School Wilkins Room, 1:00-5:00 pm (Happy Hour at 5:00)
• Optimize Minneapolis Book Launch Event with Lee Odden at Aria, July 25th at 3:00 p.m. (Note: now sold out)
• MinneDemo, July 26th at Aria, 6:30pm
• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

The gang rolls the dice on Friday the 13th and try a video podcast on a Google+ Hangout after the request of guest Robert Stephens, Geek Squad founder and former CTO of Best Buy. The irony is not lost on us when Robert is not able to join the Hangout on his iPad but we switch over to Skype for a wide-ranging chat. The result is a full audio podcast and a short, gang-only video podcast embedded below.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson
Music: Set The Music Free by Geoff Smith & brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• Gaming startup Qonqr seeks world domination (also $25,000)
• QONQR: World Domination Command Center – Game Expansion 
• Ouya: A Wake-Up Call for Video Games
• Apple Said To Plan Smaller IPad To Vie With Google Nexus
• The case for a 7.8″ iPad
• Best Buy Tries On Apple’s Sleek Look
• Yardsale app
• I Want It Today
• Personal Data Connector Singly Raises $7M

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday, July 17: Crowdfunding: Using Digital Media to Directly Access Capital,  (3:00pm – 4:30pm at CoCo Mpls)
• Energizing Open Innovation: Education, Business and Government, Wednesday, July 25th: UofMN Humphrey School Wilkins Room, 1:00-5:00 pm (Happy Hour at 5:00)
• Optimize Minneapolis Book Launch Event with Lee Odden at Aria, July 25th at 3:00 p.m. (Note: now sold out)
• MinneDemo, July 26th at Aria, 6:30pm
• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata
Music: Majesty by Infernal Devices & brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• SNL Sprockets
• Skillshare Fair at CoCo
• Apple‘s new app Podcasts (App Store link)
  • Apple Buys Chomp
  • Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Search Algorithm Again
  • Five Years Ago Today, the iPhone Went On Sale
• Google I/O
  • Jelly Bean: What you need to know about Android 4.1
  • Google Now
  • Nexus 7 Tablet Review
  • Google Nexus 7 Makes Amazon Kindle Fire Irrelevant
  • Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing
  • Google’s $299 Nexus Q streaming media player
  • Sergey Brin hopes to bring Google Glass to market in 2014 Google Chrome has 310 million active users, ‘most popular browser in the world’ 
    • Google announces Google Glass Explorer Edition, $1,500
  • Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available nowGoogle I/O nerdfest has goodies you can use right now
    • Some Impressions and Benchmarks from Chrome on iOS
  • Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits
  • Google Just Declared War On These 12 Products
• RIM posts huge Q1 miss: Net loss; BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs cut 
  • Exclusive: Microsoft tie-up, network sale among RIM options
  • Steve’s February 2007 post on his blog: iChat at 75mph

Upcoming Events…

• Tuesday, July 17: Crowdfunding: Using Digital Media to Directly Access Capital,  (3:00pm – 4:30pm at CoCo Mpls)
• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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

Discussed during the show:

• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer 
• MN Cup Semifinalists Reception
• Microsoft Surface tablets: Target is mainstream, not enterprise
  • Microsoft Surface: a new tablet and a bold strategy 
  • With the Surface, Microsoft just started writing its next chapter 
  • Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Said To Be Wi-Fi Only At First 
  • Microsoft Surface prices to be above $599, rumor claims 
  • Microsoft Patents to bring in $444 million in 2012  and Blawgit blog on patents 
• Google I/O
  • Google I/O 2012: 10 Things Developers Can Expect at the Show 
  • Phonegap
  • Android version segmentation 
• Jeremiah Owyang on the coming automation of social media
• Apple to Launch Standalone Podcast App with iOS 6
• NPR skit on Saturday Night Live: Pete Schweddy and his “Schweddy Balls“

Upcoming Events:

• Saturday, June 23rd: SkillShare Fair – CoCo Minneapolis
• Thursday, June 28th: WordPress MSP at The Nerdery
• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data” (site live soon, details still being finalized) – August 7-8, Carlson School .. featuring top names from the “Internet Identity Workshops,” including Doc Searls and others
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference

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

Discussed during the show:

• Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked – change yours now
• Microsoft IPad Killer Coming? 
• Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft (WSJ) 
• WWDC Summary: MacBooks get an update, Mountain Lion gets a ship date 
• First Look: Retina display MacBook Pro 
• Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect, ‘bloated price’ 

Upcoming Events:

• Saturday, June 23rd: SkillShare Fair – CoCo Minneapolis
• Thursday, June 28th: WordPress MSP at The Nerdery
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
• Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data” (site live soon, details still being finalized) – August 7-8, Carlson School .. featuring top names from the “Internet Identity Workshops,” including Doc Searls and others

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That said, the cool thing is that next week is Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) and Minnesota’s own Bill Heyman, founder of Codemorphic, will be our guest to talk about all the things that happened at WWDC…and we’re certain there will be A LOT to talk about!

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

Discussed during the show:

• Facebook: Is Social Media Slowing Down? and Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone
• All Things D conference: Tim Cook, Apple Gears Up For New Products and All Things D Is Haunted by the Man Who Isn’t Here and the always amazing presentation by Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins and a compilation of D10 Videos
• Cricket first pre-paid US carrier to offer iPhone on $55/month, no contract, unlimited plan
• Voxer
• eWorld
• 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web

Upcoming Events:

• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• June 7: TiE Minnesota: “Innovation: A Global Imperative,” U of M McNamara Center
• June 28: WordPress MSP at The Nerdery
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

Discussed during the show:

• Glue Conference and Graeme’s Glue liveblog and Graeme’s Glue coverage on RCR Wireless here and here
• Ignite
• Drupal Camp
• LiquidMetal and Apple’s exclusive license
• MinneAnalytics and Graeme’s coverage (Flickr set)
• The Collaborative’s Tech.2012 event
• Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle and Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls and Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think  and Introducing Facebook Camera
• Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.999-inch display, 1136 x 640 resolution in testing
• It’s Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company
• Apple’s Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business

Upcoming Events:

• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• June 7: TiE Minnesota: “Innovation: A Global Imperative,” U of M McNamara Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata

Discussed during the show:

• TiE Minnesota “Startups & Mentors”
• Local startup funding report here and Kidblog and Heroic and FanChatter
• Facebook Raises $16 Billion In Record Technology Offering and Two men rob internet cafe at gunpoint, but forget to log out of Facebook first 
• Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches and Comcast capitulates on data cap, but dodges net neutrality 
• Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens
• Multiple Nexus devices could be a game-changer for Google and Android
• Google Shifts Tack on Android 
• GMAIL: Google Locks Me Out Gmail. Seriously? and Julio takes the leap: Web-based Gmail only and Google promises to migrate Google Apps users’ Google+ accounts within weeks, has yet to do so after six months and Fluid App
• TRAVEL: Travelers Telecom and Scott e-Vest

Upcoming Events:

• May 18-19: DrupalCamp Twin Cities
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• May 22nd: Collaborative tech.2012 
• May 24th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
• June 1-2: Duluth Android BarCamp, Duluth Convention Center
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

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