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    One Last MinneDemo For The Year In Minneapolis

    The vibrant technology community here in Minneapolis has at least one more event left in the waning days of 2012. And to wrap the year, 7 minute demos with no presentations at MinneDemo, a bar camp-esque event focused around demoing new tech. I love the cookouts these guys have, but it’ll probably be too cold and snowing to have dozens of people milling around a keg, so let’s go indoors and watch people demo tech that hopefully works. A little of what they have in store for us (to quote their site): As always, MinneDemo features home-grown tech without the BS. The rules are simple: 7 minutes, real working technology,…

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    MinneDemo Again

    Well, yet again I’m out of town for MinneDemo, in Uptown Minneapolis. It will be this Thursday at 7pm. Location: Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408 Map: http://tinyurl.com/dfyzdj To quote minnedemo.org, the presentations will include the following: ShortJournal — an open source developer journal with a REST API (Zach Johnson) Skimmer — a lifestreaming app created by Fallon and Sierra Bravo that brings together your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube streams (Chris Wiggins of Fallon and Chris Black of Sierra Bravo) Zeplay — a kick-ass multi-channel HD instant replay video server for live sports events (John Reilly) tinyEscrow — Source code escrow for programmers, not for lawyers.…