Links: Startup tips from Duck Duck Go, Jay-Z and More

On his personal blog, Duck Duck Go founder Gabe Weinberg continues his Traction video series with Surf Canyon CEO Mark Cramer.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Tech Crunch reports on the high capital outputs from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, the CEO of which is a 1992 Wharton grad.

On its corporate blog, New Jersey-based business dashboard company RJMetrics offers five tips for startups as inspired by Jay-Z lyrics.

StartPhilly has a guest post about Runt.ly a service aimed at hosting messages too long for micro-blogging services but too short for the need of a traditional blog.

GIVE A GLANCE

The Inquirer reports that, rather than passing a progressive clean-energy standards bill, the Pennsylvania state legislature ended its 2009 working calendar squabbling over casino table games.

WHYY offers an audio report on plans for the city to buy what remains of the municipal broadband network.

• Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: TNT: The ballet wants you to take your phone out. No, really.

Every Friday morning, we make sure you didn’t miss anything with Friday Tech Links.

Links: Penn graduate wins Nobel Prize, LTL Prints goes for Top 40 and More

• The Inquirer reports that a University of Pennsylvania graduate and pioneer in the technology that made digital cameras first possible will share a Nobel Prize for Physics.
• The Inqy also has a story on how the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is trying to save beaucoup bucks by implementing more energy-efficient lighting.
• Philly Tech News reports that any mention of Google using a barcode image on its search engine to celebrate an anniversary for the technology can’t go without talking about its roots with Drexel University.

After the jump, someone from Camden posts on Tech Crunch, a catchy jingle from Old City and other tech stories of the week, included our best read piece of the week.

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RJ Metrics makes a rap video and admits it

Jake Stein at left and Robert Moore at right of business dashboard firm RJ Metrics performing in their "Business Intelligence" rap video.

And now for something totally different.

You may be tired of the ironic rap video — we know we are — but sometimes an old idea can pass. Does this?

Jake Stein and Robert Moore, the two Ivy League-educated entrepreneurs behind the business intelligence dashboard RJ Metrics that opened up shop earlier this month, have broken from their cipher and put business on wax.

Stein, who lives in Center City, sings the hook and plays straight man to Moore in their single “Straight Outta Camden,” noting their recent move to the Rutgers University-Camden tech incubator.

Peep the video and score an exclusive download after the jump.

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Friday Tech Links: Peirce College head is offline, some columnist writes about Facebook again and More

Updated 5/15/09, 9:14 a.m.: Corrected copy errors.

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.

• The Inquirer reports on the retirement of Arthur Lendo, noted for taking tiny Rittenhouse-based Pierce Peirce College from regional “Oh, I didn’t even realize that was real college” to “if I heard of them it was because of their online education program.” Don’t give him too much credit, though. A Google search of “Pierce College” yields a California school first. ..Bah.

We get some Navy IT, the Flyers soar and three other tech stories you should read — including our most trafficked post of the week.

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RJMetrics mining business database information

At least two Ivy League kids graduated in 2006, took fat-salaried jobs at the same New York City equity firm and returned to Philadelphia to reach fame and fortune by mining data for the nation’s small businesses.

The story continues still.

Today is the public opening of RJMetrics, a business intelligence dashboard and brainchild of a pair of 25-year-olds with regional ties: Robert J. Moore and Jake Stein. They want to help small and medium-sized businesses that collect data about their customers better use that information to chart user behavior.

And like any good idea, it came to them while they should have been doing something else.

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