Minnov8 Gang 385 – Phil’s Booth

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 real reason he bought it and it’s depicted in this week’s show cover art.  

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Down in the Hole by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Fantasy Sports Startup SportsHub Technologies Announces Two Acquisitions


• The Wild are wild for new, camera-equipped Snapchat Spectacles


• Minnesotans Spent $250M On Cyber Monday

Other Top Tech Stories

• This Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day, ever


• Silicon Valley Has An Empathy Vacuum


• In a world where Donald Trump is President, encryption is becoming more popular


• Google
  
  
  
  • Android: More Than 1 Million Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
  
  
  • Google launches App Maker
  
  
  
  


• USB Killer, yours for $50, lets you easily fry almost every device


• AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming TV service


• Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million
  
  
  
  • Mention: PebbleStuff
  
  
  
  


• How to download Netflix videos to your phone without destroying your data plan

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Classic phone booth for the BuzzFeed office (view a photo)


• Tim: Pebble 2 SE


• Steve: Ubuntu (v. 16) for Desktop
  
  
  
  • Mentions: Elementary OS  |  Parallels
  
  
  
  

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
  
  
  
  


• 1 Million Cups – St. Paul: Weekly at the James J Hill Ctr


• TIES 2016: Dec 10th – 13th, Minneapolis


• IoTFuse.monthly Meetup – Dec 15th, TBA


• Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov. 18th, Bloomington


• MinneHack, January 28-29, 2017


• DevFestMN 2017 – Google Developer Event, Feb 4th, UST Mpls campus