11 most trafficked Technically Philly stories of 2010

Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone does this. We get it. But, damn it, it’s interesting.

We’ve pulled together a list of our 11 most trafficked stories from 2010.

You can notice things like:

• Oh, yes, people like lists. You know, in case you didn’t already know that.
• Original reporting really drives traffic: Five of these 11 posts involved actual reporting, two were lists and one was the winner of a contest we created and just one was mostly aggregation, by way of posting a video someone else created. Doesn’t that bode well? We think so.

11. Science Leadership Academy: A new model for schools — Feb. 9

Below find our 10 most trafficked posts in 2010.

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Comcast Roundup: Will Comcast support another NBC push for Olympics coverage?

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 e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.

DEFINITE READS

• Comcast Deal May Hang on Showing Rivals’ Online Video [BusinessWeek] — Nothing new here, online video has always been the most talked about issue in the merger
• In NBC’s Shadow, Comcast Ponders an Olympic Plunge [New York Times]
• FCC chair to approve Comcast-NBC merger with conditions for program sharing [Post Tech: Washington Post]

Below, discounts to lower income customers, video of ‘Comcast Holiday Hell’ and more.

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TEDx Philly videos are live: Stanford Thompson, Robert J. Moore, Evan Malone, Zoe Strauss and others

TEDx Philly, the local spinoff of the popular, high-brow presentation event on technology, education and design, has posted online videos of 12 of the 16 Tedx Philly presentations from last month’s event.

Held at the Kimmel Center in Center City, more than 600 attendees crammed the hall to watch those presentations, including the four below:

Of TuneUp Philly, “Stanford Thompson speaks about the importance of after school programs and how music serves as a vehicle for social change. See Stanford’s students come on stage for a string performance that reduces the crowd to tears.”

Of RJ Metrics, “Robert J. Moore will astonish you with how much data is being created. He stresses the importance of organizing and analyzing the insane amount of data we now have.”

Evan Malone of NextFab Studio on “exposing how innovators in STEM are being sent oversees after graduation, Evan Malone offers suggestions and policy reform that can help keep these bright minds in America.”

“Once a year, for the past 10 years, Zoe Strauss turned the space under 95 South into an art gallery. Hear Strauss share inspiring stories of how personal history and community history shape her art.”

Watch the rest of the videos here.

Did one of the presentations stand out to you as being particularly good, informative or inspiring?

Startup Roundup: Startup or significant other? Pick one

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 the Startup Roundup’s dedicated newsletter or RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

MUST READS

TicketLeap has added mobile attendee check-in functionality, giving event organizers the ability to check tickets with their mobile phone.

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Marlton firm accused of fraud

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.

Since it’s a light news week. Let’s call these all “Might be worth your time:”

NJBiz has a story about the recent success of Edison Ventures and what it means to New Jersey entrepreneurs.

Not exactly venture capital, but an investment firm in Marlton has been accused of cheating its investors out of $40 milion through a complicated Ponzi scheme.  The Inquirer reports that Carr Miller Capital spent investor’s money on on luxury cars, vacations, and a suite at the New Jersey Devils’ arena.

Comcast Interactive Capital portfolio company Ortiva Wireless has received $8 million Series C investment from Intel. The company helps wireless providers monitor video traffic.

Philly’s creative sector employed 17,699 people in 2008, says report

The creative economies of Philadelphia are still small but jobs in those sectors held relatively stable during the build up to the Great Recession, according to a William Penn Foundation-funded report released last week. The creative economy included jobs like graphic designers and animators and spanned from 2006 to 2008.

Commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy and its chief Gary Steuer, the Nutter administration quickly trumpeted the research as showing a vibrant creative community.

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Fifth more college graduates will stay today than in 2004: Links

• Shout Out: New Campus Philly Study Reveals That More Students Are Staying In The Region After Graduation [uwishunu]  — “From an April-May survey of 4,600 students, 48
% 
of 
non‐native
 Philadelphian college students
 reported 
staying
 in
 the 
region compared
 to 
29
%
 in 
2004.

 And 83% of respondents said they would 
recommend
 Greater
 Philadelphia as a place to go to college.” This follows a wave of Cliff Lee-inspired pride like here and here.
• Download the Phrequency 2011 mobile app! [Phrequency] — from the Philly.com music blog
• Frank Baldino Jr., 57, founder and chief of biotech firm Cephalon [Inquirer] — Biotech entrepreneur Frank Baldino passed on.
• Why Philadelphia should leave PA and join NJ [Philly Deal: Inquirer]
• Tow Truck Operators Angry Over City Council Measure [CBS]
• Gadgets That Defined The Past Decade [Geekadelphia]
• Dorman soars, while Wilmington Trust sinks among local stocks [PhillyInc:Inquirer]
• Pa., N.J. each losing 2 House seats [Philadelphia Business Journal] — After 2010 Census figures
• North Jersey firm acquires Quinnova Pharmaceuticals [PhillyInc: Inquirer]
• Special Report: How the city serves Eastern North Philadelphia [PlanPhilly] — If you value Philadelphia, you must read the latest installment of Patrick Kerkstra’s Desolate to Dynamic project. It’s the best journalism in Philadelphia outside of the Inquirer’s consistently strong work and features data visualization from our own Brian James Kirk.
• Philadelphia Inquirer names Wischnowski editor [Philadelphia Business Journal] — Stan Wischnowski,48, who has been at the Inqy since 2000, will be “embracing and accelerating digital innovation” as the Inquirer’s leader.
• Ten local governments lack websites – and some towns have no plans to create a Web presence for residents [Press of Atlantic City]

Critical Path Project gives Internet access, e-mail, hosting for HIV/AIDS community

Bert Pannapacker used to be a business owner, but everything changed in August 1999, when he was diagnosed with AIDS. He went to Philadelphia FIGHT’s Lax Center, where he could be treated for free.

“I was a client since November 1998, and I still am,” Pannapacker said. “I still see my healthcare provider here.”

In 2004, Pannapacker began work as a part-time filing clerk for Philadelphia FIGHT’s AIDS Library. At the time, he had never touched a computer. Pannapacker took the computer classes offered in the AIDS Library to learn the basics. Today, he works as an administrative assistant and counselor at Philadelphia FIGHT. He uses a computer every day.

“Nobody knows everything about HIV,” said Pannapacker. “I try very hard to know as much as I can because I’m dealing with people who may have no information at all about HIV when they’re diagnosed.”

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Startup Roundup: InfoLogix acquisition for $61.2 million, Jennelle heads to New York

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 the Startup Roundup’s dedicated newsletter or RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

MUST READS

Enterprise mobility solutions firm InfoLogix announced late last week that it will be acquired by Stanley Black & Decker for $61.2 million, according to an email. The Business Journal followed-up, noting that the acquisition will allow the local company to grow, while it provides Black and Decker’s healthcare unit with a sales channel to hospital leaders.

Startup Leaders founder Blake Jennelle is headed for New York. Not for a startup—instead, for his muse, he said in a blogpost. But it might not be long until he finds other inspirations. As he puts it the writeup, “my imagination lights up in New York. I’m drawn to create there,” he said. We’ve covered Jennelle for the past two years through a variety of projects he was involved with, including Startup Leaders, MyDunkTank and the Gigabit City Genius Grant. It’s surely a loss for Philly, but our best wishes to Jennelle.

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Safeguard’s big take + Treventis moving to Philly for the capital

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.

DEFINITE READS

Remember when Safeguard Scientifics sold Clarient Technologies? It turns out that the company netted $144 million from the deal. According to the press release the deal gave Safeguard a debt-to-equity ratio of three-to-one. Safeguard also announced that it received a 3X return on its sale of Avid Pharmaceuticals.

Next time you hear someone complain about lack of capital in the Philadelphia region, tell them about Treventis Corp, a Canadian biotech company that established offices in Philadelphia “where it is hoping to have greater access to American venture capital.” The credit here, of course, goes to Cliff Lee.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Who says the IPO is dead? Edison Ventures’ GAIN Capital has recently begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the press release, Edison still owns 13 percent of the company and the firm realized an 18X return on securities sold.