NextFab announces plans for new location, Councilman Green wants electronic governance, Philly Flower Show has an app [LINKS]

• NextFab Studio Expanding to New Location on Washington Avenue  [Geekadelphia] “NextFab Studio is expanding with a new facility at 2025 Washington Avenue in the Southwest Center City area this summer.” NextFab plans larger studio, cafe at 2025 Washington [Philly.com] Joe DiStefano covers the expansion, too.
• Bill Green won’t give up on dream of all electronic governance [Metro] “Councilman Bill Green laid out yet another broad vision for the way City Hall operates: this time with legislation introduced Thursday pertaining to the city’s information infrastructure “Basically, the bills require any transaction inside or outside the city to be able to be conducted in an electronic format and for every field and department to have an electronic database that is searchable,” he said Thursday.”
• PhillyDeals: Sunoco’s demise a ‘Gothic tale’ 100 years in the making [Philly.com] “So the “virtual liquidation” of Sunoco – the closing of its historic Marcus Hook refinery, and the planned sale or shutdown of the Philadelphia oil complex it assembled from departed firms – has been especially sad, said Waitneight, Sunoco’s ex-treasurer. But he can’t say he didn’t see it coming: “This is a Gothic tale that spans more than 100 years.”" Philly.com also has the story. Citybizlist has video.
• Why the interest in illegal cell-phone jammers? [CNN Tech]  “Philadelphia TV station NBC10 reported on a man who admitted to using a cell-phone jammer during his bus commute to shut down fellow passengers when they were talking loudly.”

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Phila. police now have 24-hour real-time surveillance center [LINKS]

Grocery shopping at SEPTA stations? [Eyes on the Street: Plan Philly] — “Peapod, an online shopping service linked up with Giant, is now offering commuters the opportunity to browse virtual supermarket store shelves on a SEPTA station billboard.”

New Philly Startup Leaders president: ‘We are way closer to cracking the code than people think’ [Flying Kite] — Bob Moul gives his state of the organization

Phila. police now have 24-hour real-time surveillance center [PoliceOne.com]

Code for America fellows [Government Technology]

How Philadelphia police try to crowdsource safety [Links]

• Social Media in Law Enforcement [Social Media Today] — A write up on how @PhillyPolice are crowdsourcing safety, an effort we have covered before here.
• #FedValentines [Economix: New York Times] — Earlier this month, you may have seen the meme celebrating Valentine’s Day with economist friendly puns — you should know it began with Wharton’s own Justin Wolfers. More from Wall Street Journal.
• Brewerytown community center’s computer lab goes underused [Philadelphia Neighborhoods]

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SEER Interactive named among the country’s 100 fastest ‘inner-city’ companies [Links]

• Megatouch, with regional offices as we’ve recently covered, has released a brand new game for the iPad called “Nerdy Birds Social.”
• SEER Interactive Named 2012 Inner City 100 Winner [CityBiz List]
• City’s managing director turns loss of dad, daughter into mission to make others’ lives better [Daily News] — More on Rich Negrin, whom we covered last year.
• Ahead of the Science Festival, the Franklin Institute has released a series of videos about some concepts that touch on technology, including augmented reality, which was introduced by, we’re told, the daughter of Nonprofit Technology Resources founder Stan Pokras. Watch it below.

PA Tech Awards deadline extended to tonight at midnight; Vote [Links]

• Organizers tell us that the deadline for nominations for the PA Tech Awards, which we covered last month, has been extended to midnight tonight. Vote Philly!
• Spot the most defibrillators in Philly, win $10K! [SciStarter -- An interview with Penn Prof. Raina Merchant, who is behind the effort we covered
• Hedger pausing on print [New York Post] — Randy Smith, who owns nearly a third of the company that publishes Philly.com and the newspapers, is trying to sell, reports the paper. More from Poynter.
• SAP will add 500 jobs in Newtown [Delaware County Daily Times]
• AstraZeneca to cut 7,300 more jobs amid fourth-quarter profit drop [Inquirer]

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InterDigital stocks tumble after soaring after acquisition talk [Links]

• A look at Cipher Prime’s ‘Splice’ [Inquirer] — Geekadelphia’s Eric Smith pens a column
• New Jersey man turns campaign stint into software success [Inquier] — “Together they spent 20-hour days devising a social-media tool – a “game-changer,” the nonpartisan New Organizing Institute has called it – that maximized efforts by the campaign’s field offices and led to the prodigious get-out-the-vote initiative that proved key to Obama’s success.” On NationalField from Aharon Wasserman.
• Open Question to our Readers [Hive76]

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New location for NextFab Studios, computer center in Frankford [Links]

• Soapy: an even better anti-SOPA browser plugin [boingboing] — From West Philly’s Griffin Boyce
• NextFab Studio is expanding from University City to a second location on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia, NakedPhilly reports.
• Mayor Nutter Opens New Computer Center [City of Philadelphia] — in Frankford through Philly Rising program
• Former FM ‘pirate’ works to change rules [Inquirer] — an FCC win for Prometheus Radio
• The Final Buzzer [Philly Sports Daily] — the nearly year-and-a-half old daily local sports site is closing its doors
• A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur [Tech Crunch] –No direct Philly mention

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Novotorium accelerator in Bucks County welcomes first company, Zuppler [Links]

• Top 10 in 2011 Philly public figures with most entertaining Twitter feeds [Metro]
• Software helps identify anonymous writers or helps them stay that way [Bits: New York Times] — Coverage of the Drexel research we reported on here.
• Novotorium accepts first tenant: Zuppler [Philly Tech News] — The Langhorne accelerator has accepted Zuppler, the restaurant e-commerce platform, as its first company

Joystiq’s Fishtown editor Chris Grant is leaving [LINKS]

• Nurturing a nascent video game industry in Philadelphia [NewsWorks]
• This Is Philly [Hidden City] – The 2012 Maskar Philly Calendar and Almanac shipped. We covered the effort last year.
• Azavea app for travelers finds nearest emergency rooms [Philadelphia Business Journal]
• Thomas Scientific gets $12M laboratory supplies deal with military [Philadelphia Business Journal]
• This is a Goodbye Post [Joystiq] — Fishtown’s own Chris Grant, who has kept one of the country’s best known video game blogs rooted in Philadelphia, is moving on to other challenges.
• Exton-based Scala sees 20% growth in 2011, fine tunes leadership team for future growth [Philly Tech News]

SEPTA fifth most mentioned transit agency in country in December [LINKS]

• Twitter holiday travel info graphic [Mashable] — SEPTA was the fifth most mentioned transit agency in the country in the lead up to the big holiday travel days.
• Geek of the Week: Greg Lobanov, Young and Talented Game Designer [Geekadelphia] –  Drexel student Greg Lobanov
• Topping Off the Year [GSK blog] — GlaxoSmithKline puts in place the final steel beam in their soon-to-be Navy Yard headquarters
• Philly area IT consultant’s post on Forbes creates controversy [Philly Tech News] — Suburban consultant Gene Marks had a lot of push back on a Forbes column he wrote about recommendations for poor urban blacks.
• As has been reported widely this week, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have decided to not pursue an acquisition of DT’s T-Mobile mobile network after the U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the companies for antitrust issues.
• 3rd Ward Philadelphia coworking space announces restaurant RFP [3rd Ward] — Says the coworking space due to open this summer: “We’re looking for qualified restaurateurs who’ll help us create a vibrant cultural hub in this great neighborhood. The selected restaurateur will get up to an $80,000 capital improvement budget, a private entrance, indoor/outdoor seating and storage, and a built-in audience of 3rd Ward Members, students and guests,” said spokeswoman Jessica Tom.

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