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Technically Philly: Benjamin’s Desk: Naval officer Michael Maher launching corporate coworking in Center City [video walk thru]

Technically Philly — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:00:46 -0500

A Juicy Couture and an upscale nail salon wouldn’t seem to be likely building mates for a soon-to-be coworking space, but a trio in Rittenhouse say they are in the process of building Benjamin’s Desk into just that sort of space. Michael and Jennifer Maher and their co-founder Mike Goldstein have plans to offer 32 [...]

Technically Philly: Super Bowl is best watched TV of all time, will Comcast see an NBC bump? [Roundup]

Technically Philly — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:19 -0500

Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an email subscription for our weekly Comcast roundup or other news updates. OVERNIGHT TECH: Franken wants probe of Verizon cable deal [The Hill] Financial Relief for Mets May Come From TV Partners [...]

dangerouslyawesome: The Bullshit Story

dangerouslyawesome — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:41:49 -0500

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SEER Interactive: AdWords Gets Serious About Privacy Policies

SEER Interactive — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:59:34 -0500

Now that I have been been working in the PPC space for almost a year and a half now I’ve seen my fair share of good and bad landing pages. Here at SEER, when we analyze potential landing pages for our clients one of the main things we look for (and won’t go live without) [...]

Technically Philly: Code for America 2012 fellows meet OpenAccessPhilly stakeholders

Technically Philly — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:30:27 -0500

Three new fellows for the citizen hacking group Code for America were introduced Tuesday to OpenAccessPhilly stakeholders to kick-off their year with the City of Philadelphia. OpenAccessPhilly, a public/private stakeholders group convened by the City of Philadelphia, worked with the inaugural Code for America fellows last year. Nearly 30 OpenAccessPhilly members, including city employees and [...]

Technically Philly: Nutter to Chamber: Move beyond the U.S., “we need to market ourselves globally”

Technically Philly — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:36 -0500

The City of Philadelphia isn’t another rust belt city and shouldn’t be treated like one. That about sums up the wide-ranging, tone adjustment that served as Mayor Nutter’s Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce annual mayoral luncheon address Monday. “We can no longer measure ourselves as compared to other cities in the Mid-Atlantic or even throughout [...]

Technically Philly: DailyWorth partners with Mint, Viddler redesigns and sees 30% increase in sign-ups [Startup Roundup]

Technically Philly — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:11:38 -0500

Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with a weekly email newsletter by clicking here and selecting the Startup Roundup button or follow [...]

Philly NetSquared: Watch videos of past events

Philly NetSquared — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:56:48 -0500

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Philly NetSquared: Video from Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Some Important Philly Projects, Jan 3, 2012

Philly NetSquared — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:21:21 -0500

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Philly NetSquared: Video from The Occupy Movement and the Social Web: Views from Multiple Occupy Sites, Dec 6, 2011

Philly NetSquared — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:19:49 -0500

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Philly NetSquared: Video from Digital Content: Protection & Infringement for Nonprofits & Social Causes, Nov 1, 2011

Philly NetSquared — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:36:00 -0500

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Philly NetSquared: Video from Location-based services for nonprofits and social causes, Oct 4, 2011

Philly NetSquared — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:34:20 -0500

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Technically Philly: First Round to Philly? ChoozOn raised $1.5 million [VC Roundup]

Technically Philly — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:45:42 -0500

Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pass along to us, please drop us a line. MUST READ Also in SEC filings, King of Prussia-based ChoozOn [...]

dangerouslyawesome: Podcast Appearance: Chariot Tech Cast

dangerouslyawesome — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:24:26 -0500

I haven’t done one of these in a lonnnnng time, but in preparation for my talk at Philly Emerging Tech 2012 I joined Ken Rimple on the latest Chariot TechCast. The 30 minute discussion is as multi-dimensional as my days: we talk about Indy Hall & coworking, my work at Wildbit on Beanstalk and Postmark, and [...]

Technically Philly: Comcast brings low-income Internet access to 41,000 families in U.S., but only 463 locally

Technically Philly — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:27 -0500

Five months after Comcast was mandated by a federal agency to institute a sweeping program to substantially improve Internet adoption rates for low income families, only 463 Philadelphia families have activated the service in the cable giant’s hometown, where more than 150,000 families are eligible. An internal report on Comcast’s Internet Essentials program issued last [...]

Technically Philly: What is a startup?: a Technically Philly definition

Technically Philly — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:32 -0500

Turns out, despite the focus on them in technology news, there are lots of questions about what exactly a ‘startup‘ is. Any new business might use the word as an adjective, but we at Technically Philly think we need a philosophy for what exactly constitutes a technology startup when we categorize and cover their work [...]

dangerouslyawesome: The Sum of Your Decisions

dangerouslyawesome — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:08:29 -0500

Imagine if your life experiences were all grouped together with similar experiences, one after the other. It might look something like this parable from the book Sum: You spend 2 months driving the street in front of your house, seven months having sex. You sleep for thirty years without opening your eyes. For 5 months [...]

Technically Philly: Bob Moul to lead Old City’s AppRenaissance: “I want to build a major, permanent software company in Philadelphia”

Technically Philly — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:06 -0500

Bob Moul says his 50s are going to be his best decade yet. Today, Moul, who led Berwyn-based Boomi to a Dell exit, announces he has become chairman and CEO of AppRenaissance, a year-old Old City mobile development shop. The 48-year-old, who left Boomi after transitioning the acquisition and diving into the local entrepreneurship scene [...]

Technically Philly: Zonoff wants to make your iPad the remote control for your entire home

Technically Philly — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:32 -0500

Mike Harris has been down this road before. The former CEO of AnySource Media has been laying low after his last company exited to Divx in 2009. The company helped make software to connectt TVs to the Internet, a precursor to the long-rumored Apple TV set. But now, he’s taking that idea to the next level. “Zonoff is [...]

Technically Philly: Co-Founders Wanted, Girl Develop It and cheap tickets to Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Conference [Event Highlights]

Technically Philly — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:18 -0500

Good morning Philadelphia. Happy Monday to you and the Giants fans in your your life. Now that the Super Bowl is over, we’re all counting down to pitchers and catchers, right? Before you dust off your Chase Utley there are lots of technology events happening in Philadelphia to keep your mind off of the Winter [...]