Friday Tech Links: Fourth most innovative, BigBelly trash video and More
In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
DEFINITE READS
- Innovation Philadelphia reports that our fair city was ranked the fourth most innovative U.S. city in a recent large survey by 2think2know. Philly lagged behind Boston, which was ranked No. 1 globally, San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C. We were 32nd globally.
- Good magazine hits Center City to talk the innovation surrounding the recently installed BigBelly trash cans that are showing up on our busy city streets. There’s a hotly edited video that includes Oscar the Grouch.
MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME
- TechCrunch just seems dumbfounded by the profitability of the little social network that could, myYearbook based in New Hope, Pa., co-founded by Catherine Cook, whom we spoke to earlier this year.
- The Inquirer reports that the next big innovation in rural health care may come from two small towns 150 miles northwest Philadelphia.
GIVE A GLANCE
- As part of a big green business package in its Sunday edition, the Inquirer reports on a Warminster firm that is betting its future on the growth of LED light sales.
- Philly Tech News reports that two scientists from our region were named to the MIT Technology Review’s TR35, representing the top innovators under 35 years of age.
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