“great post from a VC buddy ... on the parallels between surfing and investing in startups: http://tinyurl.com/6d4epa”

“@MNHeadhunter good one! you musta been watchin' the live stream of @smbmsp ?”

“Icahn: you acted irrationally ... YHOO: you don't get it ... Icahn nominates 10 board members, incl Mark Cuban! http://tinyurl.com/6h7r2d”

“General Mills, Target, Best Buy, and Fingerhut Bare Their Social Media Souls ... http://tinyurl.com/4upnh5”

“@wtongen Oh yeah, I remember Cluetrain (know 3 of the authors); they'd agree cos are still slow; but at least Best Buy & Target are tryin'”

“new blog post: Big Brands Talk Social Media in Minneapolis ... http://tinyurl.com/6mw5mh”

“another gorgeous May morning in Minneapolis...this and Sept are the best months of all here”

“@kevinfarner yeah, I hear ya on forums...sorry to hear about your grandpa, btw - great man, and we as Americans owe a lot to his generation”

“attended www.mima.org panel on social media in the enterprise - Gen Mills, Target, Best Buy, Fingerhut - it was awesome, will be blogging it”

“@dcgrigsby say hi for me, and tell him to see my latest story - about his Net Perceptions colleague Steve Larsen: http://tinyurl.com/5bwtrw”

“using http://twitbuzz.com yet? that and www.summize.com are a great way to monitor and search Twitter”

“@sopheava nice Minnebar pix at http://tinyurl.com/6fk3gc ! my personal favs: 1) Luke grinning, and 2) the three beer bottles”

“well, I'll be darned: Carl Icahn jumps into Microsoft-Yahoo fray, purchases 50M shares, may launch proxy fight ... http://tinyurl.com/4od6st”

“Can Twittering Add Value? .... http://tinyurl.com/4xuctt”

“@MNHeadhunter Hey, Paul, I'll be attending MIMA social media panel tomorrow evening - see ya there...”

“The Big Merger of 2008: The Mobile Phone and the Web ... http://tinyurl.com/6ly938”

“@swirlspice Hey, Erica (nice to finally meet you at #Minnebar btw!) my son's on the crew of that movie shoot ("Nobody") say hi if ya see him”

“@shelisrael damn, you're out about early in Vegas - or haven't you gone to bed yet? :-)”

“great follow-on to #Minnebar - www.MInnov8.com announced it'll be adding a discussion forum soon...let the yackin' begin”

“@MNHeadhunter More on HP buying EDS: http://tinyurl.com/43k373”

“@MNHeadhunter EDS news is HP is buyin' em ....look out, IBM - guess these guys are serious about the services biz”

“@howthree Thanks for following, and I you...great to meet you on Sat - now if we could just get Gary Smaby to Twitter :-)”

“my #Minnebar recap post now up on www.Minnov8.com - and soon to appear on www.MinnPost.com as well, I hear”

“TechCrunch takes down comments on products they blog about that aren't favorable (in this case, on MobileCrunch): my bad experience w/Eye-Fi”

“those who attended #Minnebar - list your blog posts on the wiki at www.Minnebar.com”

“@JonnyBentwood Great example of company using social media well is Best Buy with their social net for employees, Blue Shirt Nation”

“my (mostly bad) Minnebar '08 pix are up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/g...”

“Minnebar '08 Rocked the Mouse, the House, the State, and the Twitterverse... http://tinyurl.com/4zmmfn”

“up early after a long, fantastic day at Minnebar...can't believe it was Twittered so hard yesterday, was in top five at Summize by p.m. :-)”

“@lof Mega-thanks to you, Ben, and all the others for organizing one fantastic Minnebar...venue great, sessions excellent, people the best”

“more cool things coming from Seesmic...anyone who wants to signup today can without code”

“2nd LightningTalk session #Minnebar local guy w/Seesmic in Bay Area demoing it; like video Twitter; conversations show up in blog comments”

“Michael Gorman: MN is the Valley of med tech; don't have large cos here in IT anymore...Cray, CDC gone; can cos like Digital River pick up?”

“Code 42 guy: asked what is biggest opp he sees... nothing like mobile, iPhone is huge platform, very rich with opportunity #Minnebar”

“early morning reading prior to #Minnebar: In Over Your Head - The Life of an Entrepreneur ... http://tinyurl.com/6rb5ym”