Yep…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 techn

Minnov8 Gang 399 – One Word for Minnebar: Wow!

Mar 25th, 2017 38m 49s

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. Host

Minnov8 Gang 398 – Can I Go Thru Your Underwear Drawer?

Mar 18th, 2017 41m 12s

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 wo

Minnov8 Gang 397 – Geek Squad Spies?

Mar 11th, 2017 41m 48s

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

Minnov8 Gang 396 – Can Target & Best Buy Weather Retail Storm?

Mar 5th, 2017 57m 25s

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 o

Minnov8 Gang 395 – Can Tech Save The News?

Feb 25th, 2017 54m 30s

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 techno

Minnov8 Gang 394 – Give Up Your Passwords at the U.S. Border

Feb 18th, 2017 46m 25s

Are 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 P

Minnov8 Gang 393 – Advisor to President Trump

Feb 11th, 2017 47m 9s

Tim 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

Minnov8 Gang 392 – I Stand With Rosa

Jan 28th, 2017 53m 6s

We 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.,

Minnov8 Gang 391 – You ARE Being Watched

Jan 21st, 2017 31m 37s

It 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.

Minnov8 Gang 390 – Hackers for Rudy

Jan 14th, 2017 44m 20s

Hackers 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

Minnov8 Gang 389 – A Carnival In An Open Field Staffed By Drunk Orphans

Jan 7th, 2017 41m 14s

One 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 M

Minnov8 Gang 388 – Our 2017 Crystal Ball Predictions

Dec 30th, 2016 57m 4s

It’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, Ti

Minnov8 Gang 387 – sNOw Emergency

Dec 17th, 2016 48m 7s

This 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

Minnov8 Gang 386 – Vintage Jewelry Meets VR

Dec 10th, 2016 47m 48s

This 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 Christma

Minnov8 Gang 385 – Phil’s Booth

Dec 3rd, 2016 57m 7s

Phil 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 re

Minnov8 Gang 384 – ‘Ya, You Betcha: MN Loves the Internet

Nov 19th, 2016 35m 57s

Did 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, A

Minnov8 Gang 383 – Will Tech Experience a Trump Effect?

Nov 12th, 2016 50m 43s

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 “El

Minnov8 Gang 382 – Gov is Sure About MNSure Robocallers

Nov 5th, 2016 39m 8s

We 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 B

Minnov8 Gang 381 – Doing the Dongle

Oct 29th, 2016 48m 29s

This 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 discusse

Minnov8 Gang 380 – IoT’s Yin & Yang

Oct 22nd, 2016 37m 39s

In 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

Minnov8 Gang 379 – Hacking the Internet of Things

Oct 15th, 2016 56m 58s

One 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. Tea

Minnov8 Gang 378 – “Cloud” is the Answer

Oct 7th, 2016 42m 2s

We 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

Minnov8 Gang 377 – Don’t Hire Me Bro!

Oct 1st, 2016 51m 36s

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

Minnov8 Gang 376 – Down the Well

Sep 23rd, 2016 36m 16s

Phil 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

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