John Hines of WCCO-AM had me on the late-morning broadcast to talk about Microsoft’s just-announced Surface tablets.
These are intended to give Apple’s dominant iPads a run for their money, yet offer most of the key features found in traditional Windows PCs.
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Jeff Passolt of Fox 9 and I discuss Verizon’s new “Share Everything” plan. I was in my patio, squinting a bit because of the sun … and barefoot.
YouTube videos of all the recent Ignite Minneapolis #4 talks are up!
These include my AeroPress talk, which I blogged about here and here.
If I could go back and change anything, I would make only two tweaks:
Brian Lalor, Paul DeBettignies and Heather Munro got these great shots of yours truly on the Ignite Minneapolis 2012 stage Thursday night. Thanks!
More …Last night I presented at Ignite Minneapolis 2012 and I was scared shitless.
Public speaking has never been my favorite activity and it used to cause me quite a bit of stage fright. I (mostly) got over that after writing a couple of books that resulted in lots of speaking engagements.
Ignite, though, is a challenging kind of speaking gig. It is structured, with a limit of 20 slides, displayed for 15 seconds each, for a talk that lasts five minutes, and not a second longer. More …
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KARE 11, the Twin Cities’ NBC affiliate, invited me to demo compact speaker systems on its early-morning show with Kim Insley and Tim McNiff.
All of the devices are intended to work with phones and tablets but have interesting variations. Here’s a related blog post.
I made another guest appearance on on TWiT’s Tech News Today, which is always a thrill.
From the show notes: “Chrome is the most popular browser? But Google is anticompetitive, cable companies join hands to help you wirelessly, and more.”
I am honored whenever I am invited to co-host an episode of the Minnov8 Gang Podcast alongside its four regular hosts. I did so again today.
Steve, Graeme, Phil, Tim and I talked Facebook IPO, Comcast broadband-data caps … and gadgets, gadgets, gadgets.
My Sunday column about travel tech figured prominently into the conversation.
In the artwork for the episode’s blog post, Steve Borsch has fun with one of the tech products I used on a recent trip – ScottEVest’s travel vest. More …
Why did Target boot Amazon’s Kindle e-book readers and related products from its stores? I discuss this with WCCO-AM’s John Hines. (Scrub to the 9:45 mark.)
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I am flattered and honored that my alma mater, St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., saw fit to include me in a “I am a Johnnie” collage in the campus’ Sexton Commons, along with the likes of polar explorer Paul Schurke and former U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger.
This made my day. Thanks.
More …WCCO-AM’s Moose Miller, filling in for Esmee Murphy, quizzes me on how smartphones are increasingly being used as digital wallets for mobile transactions. I also talk about a few of my favorite phone and tablet apps.
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