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Ericast.com Podcast - DWEEB THOUGHTSEricast 287 - Back from MoabThis is going to be a bit of a travelogue. So when you ask, "Where did you go with your daughter?" ... here's your show. Website viewers: Click here to listen to this week's episode! Podcast listeners: Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone: Call 701-645-ERIC (701-645-3742) and comment I'm a little tired. And, podcasts are just too hard. I'm going to be talking for about 20 minutes, so that's 20 minutes. But there's about a half-hour of show-prep before that, typing up some notes and figuring out what I'm talking ab...2017-04-2600 min

Ericast.com Podcasts - DWEEB THOUGHTSEricast 287 - Back from MoabThis is going to be a bit of a travelogue. So when you ask, "Where did you go with your daughter?" ... here's your show. Website viewers: Click here to listen to this week's episode!Podcast listeners: Click here for a link to the show notes page! Everyone: Call 701-645-ERIC (701-645-3742) and comment I'm a little tired. And, podcasts are just too hard. I'm going to be talking for about 20 minutes, so that's 20 minutes. But there's about a half-hour of show-prep before that, typing up some notes and figuring out what I'm ta...2017-04-2625 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 400 – Our Last ShowYep…you read that headline right. After nearly NINE YEARS this week’s show is our last podcast as the Minnov8 Gang. It’s been a great ride. We’ve had an incredible amount of fun, talked to literally dozens of guests, interviewed Minnesota technology leaders, attended hundreds of events, and covered Minnesota technology innovation in all its forms. It is time, however,... [Read More...]2017-04-0800 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 399 – One Word for Minnebar: Wow!This week’s show was recorded at Minnebar, an enormous gathering of techies in Minnesota. Our guest is Adrienne Peirce (LinkedIn), Product Owner at Leadpages and President of Minne*, the organization responsible for Minnebar and Minnedemo. Hosts: Steve Borsch and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off) Music: Woke Up With The Blues by Deep Sea Gypsies under... [Read More...]2017-03-2500 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 398 – Can I Go Thru Your Underwear Drawer?This past week a Minnesota judge signed a search warrant for anyone who did a Google search for someone who defrauded an Edina bank. Besides being outrageously broad as a warrant—anybody who searched on this guy’s name for legitimate reasons would be under suspicion and could be brought in for questioning—is likely violating our Constitution’s 4th amendment against unreasonable searches. Even Forbes magazine picked up the story but few other outlets have…yet. Of course, if this would be allowed we could go through Tim Elliott’s underwear drawer and who knows what we’d find? 2017-03-1841 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 397 – Geek Squad Spies?Minnesota’s own big box tech retailer, Best Buy, sees its Geek Squad in the news since the FBI Used Best Buy’s Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance. Are Geek Squad people really being used as spies? Unfortunately it certainly seems so. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin Cover by Fabio (The Guitarist Saturday) under a CC by 4.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Kidizen lands $3.2M in VC, ramps up hiring Stratasys Shrinks Losses In...2017-03-1141 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 396 – Can Target & Best Buy Weather Retail Storm?We cover the Minnesota tech stories of the week including disappointing earnings from both Target and Best Buy over the holiday period. Can they compete with Amazon and other online sources? We have a few ideas. Later we discuss the Amazon S3 outage, Uber’s use of tech to evade law enforcement and Google’s rapid rise in the education market at the expense of Apple. Hosts: Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week) Music: Ring of Fire by Window Shop for Love under a CC by 4.0 License 2017-03-0557 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 395 – Can Tech Save The News?Several good tech stories this week but, once again, we dust-off our “Gang Mentality” segment to ponder a question after the president of the United States inaccurately calls out major news organizations as “fake”. That question is: Will technology provide the answer to real vs. fake news, or will it take human intervention? Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Slow Day Blues by A to Z Guitars under a CC by 4.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Virtual nurse app Sense.ly raises $8 mil...2017-02-2554 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 394 – Give Up Your Passwords at the U.S. BorderAre you a U.S. citizen? Then you should know that, if you travel internationally, when you come back to the U.S. you may be forced to reveal your device passwords (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop) as well as providing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers with passwords to your social media and other accounts. Farfetched? Nope…read... [Read More...]2017-02-1800 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 393 – Advisor to President TrumpTim and Steve could only imagine what it would be like if Phil Wilson was an advisor to Donald Trump. Would we all have healthcare? Would he build a wall around Lakeville where Tim lives? We can only speculate, but let’s not, and instead go on and talk about technology! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and... [Read More...]2017-02-1100 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 392 – I Stand With RosaWe discuss the top Minnesota and other tech stories, but our guest this week is none other than Chuck Olsen, a new media entrepreneur who continues to be involved with cutting edge tech. This time Chuck’s virtual reality firm, Visual VR, Inc., created an augmented reality character named Rosa, the world’s first virtual activist. She’s a 50ft tall woman “standing up for women everywhere“, and was first delivered publicly so as to “embody every woman who could not participate” and display their messages on Rosa’s sign during the Women’s March in Washington D.C. on January 21st, 20...2017-01-2853 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 391 – You ARE Being WatchedIt is obvious to people who are aware of mass surveillance that we all are being watched. Anything digital is swept up, made Google-like searchable, connected to others and also events, regardless whether those connections are relevant or not. We talk about our usual Minnesota tech stories but in our other top tech stories was one that caught our attention about Lavabit’s Ladar Levinson launching a new encrypted email service that is better than the original once used by Edward Snowden. Since email is usually core to how and what we communicate, obtain password resets, archive email...2017-01-2131 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 390 – Hackers for RudyHackers around the world are undoubtedly cheering the appointment of Rudy Giuliani as an advisor to the president on cyber security for the upcoming Trump administration. For anyone following this pick by Trump, a sad (but still amusing) story appeared shortly after it was discovered that Trump’s cybersecurity advisor choice, Rudy Giuliani, was running an easily hackable website for his “security” firm Guiliani Partners. (Note: As of late yesterday the website is offline). For more on this embarrassing, public revelation see Rudy Guiliani is an absurd choice to defend the US from hackers as well as this tweet...2017-01-1444 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 389 – A Carnival In An Open Field Staffed By Drunk OrphansOne of the stories we discovered this past week was this amusing one in New York Magazine about Joel Johnson‘s adventure moving from MacOS to Windows 10 and what he thinks about both platforms. In a nutshell he describes the two this way: “If MacOS is a sterile art gallery, Windows is a carnival in an open field staffed by drunk orphans.” Listen to the podcast for this story, and many more, in this week’s show. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson Music: Stormy Blues by Arne Bang Huseby under a CC by 4.0 License The...2017-01-0741 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 388 – Our 2017 Crystal Ball PredictionsIt’s our annual predictions show and, while we cover a handful of Minnesota and other top tech stories this past week, we focus on our “hits and misses” from predicting 2016 and then jump in to our 2017 prognostications. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson Music: Everyday I Have the Blues by Ike Rock and Blues under a CC by 4.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Target To Expand On Its Silicon Valley-based Tech Showroom Open House With new smart water technology, Uponor looks to tap into i...2016-12-3057 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 387 – sNOw EmergencyThis week’s snow emergency turned in to a ‘no’ emergency in our view, but if you live in a place where towing cars is a much-needed winter activity then you should listen to our discussion about Julio Ojeda-Zapata‘s article regarding Apps keep you abreast of snow parking, assuming they’re up to date. You might want to download one of them! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson Music: Crawdad by Ernie Lewis under a CC by 4.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Best Buy to Confron...2016-12-1748 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 386 – Vintage Jewelry Meets VRThis week we interview Katie Jones from Atique to learn more about their combination of vintage jewelry and virtual reality. We also run-down the week’s tech news including Julio’s picks for Minnesota-made holiday tech gifts, A Klingon Christmas Carol and why everyone should have a Ring doorbell. Hosts: Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Steve Borsch is off this week) Music: Wings by Nicolai Heidlas under a CC by 4.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Shop for tech gifts that just happen to be...2016-12-1047 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 385 – Phil’s BoothPhil is our resident superhero and his Cool Thing of the Week is a classic phone booth for his team at the wide-open and cavernous Minneapolis BuzzFeed office. While he claims it’s for them to have privacy for phone calls, Tim and I know the real reason he bought it and it’s depicted in this week’s show cover art.... [Read More...]2016-12-0300 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 384 – ‘Ya, You Betcha: MN Loves the InternetDid you know that Minnesota is the state with the highest rate of internet usage? We didn’t. Must be the combination of smart people and high number of months each year spent mainly indoors! Hat tip to our friend over at Blandin on Broadband, Ann Treacy, who highlighted this statistic in this post. The Gang chats about this and... [Read More...]2016-11-1900 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 383 – Will Tech Experience a Trump Effect?Tuesday’s election brought Donald Trump to president-elect status and the tech industry isn’t so sure what that means. The short answer is yes, tech will experience a Trump effect but listen for the longer term effect and take a peek at the “Election and Technology” links below for more perspective. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott... [Read More...]2016-11-1200 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 382 – Gov is Sure About MNSure RobocallersWe kickoff the show about MNSure‘s rough start this past week and how Governor Mark Dayton said it was due to robocallers tying up phone lines. Though we have little evidence to the contrary, we’re not so sure that was the issue. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia by The Bottoms Up Dixieland Jazz Band under a CC by 3.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories MNsure signs month’s worth of customers in two days New Metro Trans...2016-11-0539 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 381 – Doing the DongleThis week Apple announced new MacBook Pros and one takeaway was what BGR wrote about in You’ll need $250 in dongles to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro. Yes, if you do buy the new MacBook Pro you’ll likely need A LOT of dongles! The Gang discusses dongles and much more on this week’s show. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Extremely Funky Blues by Grapefruit Clinton under a CC by 3.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Minnesota lan...2016-10-2948 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 380 – IoT’s Yin & YangIn Chinese philosophy and religion there are two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things. This week we experienced both with the Internet of Things (IoT): The massive distributed denial of service on Friday was definitely ‘yin’ and today’s... [Read More...]2016-10-2200 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 379 – Hacking the Internet of ThingsOne of the most interesting Internet of Things (IoT) events of the year is IoTHackday, a fun, FREE day that brings together teams, novel ideas, and an entrepreneurial spirit to dream up and build cool new devices to solve everyday problems. Teams form, submit their ideas ahead of the event, and hack for 12 hours. The public is invited to attend at the end of the day at 8pm, vote for their favorite teams. Top teams receive hardware and prizes! Justin Grammens is our guest this week (see profile below) and he tells all about IoTHackday, an...2016-10-1556 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 378 – “Cloud” is the AnswerWe cover the usual Minnesota tech stories as well as other top ones, but our guest this week is all about the cloud. Tom Iverson is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with a Minneapolis firm and we dig in to questions about cloud computing and why it’s the answer. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Penitentiary Blues by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Comcast Comcast to roll out internet data caps in Minneapolis-St. Paul Co...2016-10-0742 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 377 – Don’t Hire Me Bro!You may remember the protestor at Secretary John Kerry’s talk at U of Florida and that guy wouldn’t leave so the cops Tased him as he yelled out, “Don’t tase me, bro!!” The video of the guy screaming that out became an internet meme in 2007 and so it was the first thing that came to mind when we discussed one of our first Minnesota tech stories called High-tech Talent Grab. The focus of the story was about Twin Cities companies essentially being raided for their tech talent. But is that apparent tech-talent-raiding a good thing or a bad...2016-10-0151 min

Minnov8Minnov8 Gang 376 – Down the WellPhil Wilson, aka “Mr. Acoustics“, comes to us from the Minneapolis BuzzFeed office conference room. As a former radio DJ, Phil knows a thing or two about good acoustics, microphones, and sounding your best. THAT is why it’s so fun to tease him about his “down the well” acoustics this week! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson Music: Beaumont Rag by Walker Winn under a CC by 3.0 License The Podcast Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories Startup Week/MinneDemo24 recap ‘DocuMNtary’ film puts spotlight on growing Minnesota tech scene...2016-09-2336 min