Hey all you geeks out there, on Thursday, November 15th PANMA will be conducting the first Web Tools Shootout at the Holiday Inn, 13th and Walnut.
You can register for this event here.
We are hoping that this event will lead to an ongoing string of events to help the community get familiar with the latest web […]

** NEXT MAKE:PHILLY MEETING **
MakePhilly is thrilled and honored to welcome Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD as our guest speaker for our September meeting. Dr. Slavko will present on future applications of eye tracking technologies as a means of communication with digital devices (computers, cell phones, PDAs and the like). History and mechanism of eye-tracking devices […]

I saw this mentioned on Tara Hunt’s HorsePigCow:
SocialNetworkDevCamp will focus on API and Widget development from Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Linked In and others. The camp will also start the process of identifying open APIs and data structures which would facilitate the creation of open standards for social networking.
It’ll be taking place Richmond, CA, but it […]

David Speers gives a motivating speech on Philly’s future based on the motivation following BlogPhiladelpha.

This review probably won’t be a big surprise, but I decided to mention it because it packs in a surprising amount of meat, while being mercifully short. Also, the home blog, OnStartups is one of the most straight-forward and informative I’ve encountered on web startups.
BTW, I was mailed an invitation to the Philadelphia Internet […]

Our very own Joshua Lane was just featured on unmatchedstyle.com today… Upon checking out the site, I discovered the featured redesign of knoxville.org. I found this site to be totally beautiful and vibrant and it made me want to get on a plane right this second and go to Knoxville. Then I thought… […]

 I was talking with toonerstan and I wondered whether we could take the discussion about Philly and the new technology in a slightly different direction.   One way to understand how and why Silicon Valley and Route 128 in Boston etc succeed is to examine the startup as a business model: what they are, how they succeed […]

This is a highly-digged essay from about about a year ago by Paul Graham, the Y-Combinator guy in Boston. He discusses what makes a city hospitable or inhospitable as a place for launching tech startups. It contains some Philly-bashing, so be prepared. I showed it to Lisa last year, and recently heard it […]

I just read Geoff’s post and it inspired me to write a bit on the same topic, and introduce a few other groups, or sources of “seeds” if you will.
Over the last two years I have noticed a tremendous upswing in the amount of individuals interested in attending local user group meetings, professional groups and […]